howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Always controversial but now deselected by 3 votes to 2. not a decisive result.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/tory-party-moves-to-oust-29422/Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
#2
Will he now throw his lot in with UKIP? I am sure they will approach him.
Audere est facere.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#3
I don't think ukip would go near, the inn is already full when it comes to muppets!
Arte et Marte
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#4
I saw Bob just before Christmas. Absolutely no way he would join ukip. In spite of all that is written about him, he is a decent bloke.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#5
I notice that Wayne Elliott was one of the 5 on the panel which couldn't have helped Bob's cause and the article states that the council leader was not informed of the decision which seems odd.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#6
Id like to think it was his derogatory statements levelled at Aylesham kids that sunk him.
Aylesham being the near voting size of sandwich ,maybe the conservative party is wising up to reality.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#7
I wasn't aware of any comments made about Aylesham his barbs were normally aimed at Dover - single mothers, tattoos, cans of lager etc.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#9
According to the print edition of the Mercury, Frost's full statement was:-
'I am pleased to confirm that I shall be standing as one of the Conservative Party candidates for North Deal in the forthcoming Elections.
Hopefully this will put to rest the confected hyperbolic outrage, cretinous conspiracy theories and general idiocies which you have gleefully reported recently.
I have been 'reliably' informed over the same period that people have it from unimpeachable sources that I had defected to UKIP, was appealing against my de-selection or was about to stand as an Independent, none of which have a grain of truth in them!
Over the past four years I have tried my best to represent all of those in North Deal to the best of my ability whilst being totally honest and transparent.
I have not always voted with my fellow Conservatives when I believe they are wrong and nor have I hypocritically whined about the lack of affordable housing whilst owning a portfolio of rented properties.
I have however had 54 scheduled official meetings over the past year alone and also spent hours sorting out issues such as parking , education provision, social services etc etc whilst never claiming a penny in expenses. It's only what all councillors should be doing.
If the voters of Deal re-elect me in May then I shall be pleased to continue serving them.
If however they wish to elect some pompous self-aggrandising party clone who will never say anything unless it is a bland comment cleared by Central Office then that is their democratic right.
Already there have been a number of candidates announced who more than fit the bill.'
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson