Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,655
Obviously Eljai Morais, the Women’s Equality Party candidate in Dover is not very busy at the moment. I wonder what invisible The Misadventures of Ms Scrumptious...'T video was about.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,900
Unless the page is old, which seems doubtful, it looks like Charlie is a candidate, and an independent one:
https://www.elphicke.com/about-charlie.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,655
I really think it is about time we the voters were told officially if he is going to stand or not.
The address given at the bottom in the link is the Conservative offices
BTW Charlies Facebook page has disappeared, so something is going on behind the scenes.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,557
Without doubt Jan it's no secret the local tory association is backing Charlie.
The party must decide if he's continue to have the whip withdrawn(as per the tory rule book)
or re instate him,(but that would make a mockery of it being taken away in the first place)
He has continued in all but name to be a tory, leaflets coming out of the tory walmer office(although with the tory logo removed)
The seat has become a very open one,and would be more so if he had to stand as an indy and run against a tory.
I suspect the tories will either re instate him, or won't run an official candidate.
to not do one of these 2 things could risk losing the seat.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I would like to see bob the hot dog man stand for mp. just saying.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,655
This landed in my inbox this morning but still no notification that he is standing as an Independent or even at all. Copied but I have not bothered to read the waffle....
Delivering for our area
We’ve come such a long way together. Why would we want to return to where we were less than a decade ago?
Since 2010, record investment has been secured for the public services we all rely on. I have campaigned tirelessly for more jobs and money – because a secure job and being able to pay the weekly bills matters to us all.
In healthcare we’ve seen the new £26 million hospital built in Dover, while Deal Hospital was safeguarded after our strong local campaign. Now we also have a new medical school on the way, taking its first students next year. The UK’s first ever dementia village is due to open in Dover too. On top of all that, the record NHS investment secured in the new national funding deal means £350 million upgrades are planned for our major hospitals in east Kent.
School standards are up as well. Since 2010, some 27 local schools have improved their Ofsted ratings. I also fought for a new funding deal that will see our pupils get nearly 10% extra, meaning millions more for years to come. An official study recently put Dover and Deal in the UK top 10 for social mobility in both nurseries and primary schools – meaning more opportunity for our young people.
The campaign for the renewal of our area has helped create 7,700 new jobs, rising wages and more than £500 million of investment. Burlington House is down, with a £53 million cinema and shopping complex rising in its place. We’ve also got the new £26 million leisure centre and the £250 docks transformation, while the fast train sweeps into Deal and the villages all day, every day.
And we’ve worked to get our area’s voice heard at the very top of Government. We got the French authorities to dismantle the Calais Jungle. I am just as clear now on the need for them to take stronger action to stop people making dangerous journeys in small boats. Because everyone knows that letting the migrants in Calais into this country, as proposed by Jeremy Corbyn, only encourages more people trafficking.
We’ve fought for safer streets too. I campaigned in Parliament to secure £23.6 million extra cash for Kent Police from central government – an 8.1% boost. As a result, 380 new officers have been recruited across the county. From the latest intake alone, an extra 11 officers will soon be patrolling the streets of Dover and Deal.
Alongside the mum of a teenager who died from a deadly new drug, I also campaigned to secure “Robert’s Law”. This means tougher sentences for dealers of fentanyl. Deaths from it fell for the first time for years in 2018 – and our top cops at the NCA have heaped praise on the campaign.
It’s vital that we build on all this massive progress for our area – not go backwards. We need to get Brexit done so we can keep moving forward. Our best days are yet to come.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,225
Save for the final two lines, it reads like a valedictory report. I rather suspect not event CE knows what's going on at this point.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
I read it that Charlie will be a candidate and no Conservative
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,205
Surely as there are currently no mp's of any party, only PPC's and Charlie is still a member of the conservative party he should be able to stand for the conservatives, if he is returned as an MP he would still be a conservative mp with a whip suspension as he currently is.
Arte et Marte
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
roll on Christmas, at least we can stuff the turkeys with out the useall complaints.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,469
Natalie Elphicke for MP!
'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,469
Charlie Elphicke’s wife Natalie has been selected as the Conservative candidate for Dover in the general election. Mr Elphicke is standing down. He has been charged with sexual assault against two women, which he denies.
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'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
You are joking Captain
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,225
There you go. Nothing more to say.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
It’s an elegant way out of the dilemma.
Hope she has a better time of it than Hillary Clinton.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
Words fail me.That says something.I liked Charlie.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,225
I just can't muster a strong view either way.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,469
Go home General Election 2019, you're drunk.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,900
Makes a weird kind of sense - saves on the car-sticker budget. Also draws a line under the list of Charlie's achievements, which can get a little wearying at times. Wonder what Natalie looks like in a hard hat...
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