Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
don't think so jan, its been shut for a while for refurbishment.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
Rather strange it is outside the DTC area of representation
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,090
(Not my real name.)
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Purdah
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I could not open anything during an election
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The Mayor does not go out of his or her district .I worked with the Town Mayors and I know the procedures.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
Shame she doesn't take her duties to her ward seriously!
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes Reg. my thoughts .Some of those houses do need a bit of tlc
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,302
What's all this about the Mayor trying to get Dover to be 'twin' with Edinburgh as they both have an enormous colourful tattoo?
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,922
Brian Dixon wrote:don't think so jan, its been shut for a while for refurbishment.
Sorry I should have used the word 'was' rather than 'is', maybe she is/was friends with the owner.
To be honest I do not care either way she is a nobody, just a useless two bit publicity grabbing politician.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Reginald Barrington wrote:Shame she doesn't take her duties to her ward seriously!
St Radigunds is the graveyard of councillors Reg, messrs Shirley and Palmer lasted about 15 minutes between the pair of them.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The residents deserve better.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Jan Higgins wrote:To be honest I do not care either way she is a nobody, just a useless two bit publicity grabbing politician.
As have been the majority of local politicians for as long as I've been living in Dover. No names, no pack drill but some of the career local politicians seem only to have the council chamber or their preferred hostelries as their main environment. As far the Mayors, I agree with Howard. The last one to display any real integrity was Chris Precious.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#74 But he still allowed the town clerk to run rings around him. We need a mayor with both the personality and the legal knowledge to be able to stand on her/his own two feet. I don’t see anyone on the horizon with those qualities. All those who have held the post in recent years have either been party puppets or well-meaning but useful idiots. Even if we had such a mayor, I see no point in the town council. Most of its expenditure is to sustain its own existence and it does very little for the town.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Our Mayor is purely ceremonial Peter, although Mr Rix clearly thought otherwise, so no legal knowledge or political acumen is required.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Maybe we could do with a local referendum on whether we want or even need our useless DTC, but it might be a waste of our time going by the last national one.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Jan
It doesn't take many locals to do away with it
Over the years we have had a number of good mayor's
Gordon Cowan even though he's labour was one of the better ones
I think the mayor previous to a Jones caused the position embarrassment
Which will take a lot to get over
Certainly I spent 2 years on DTC and I believe and campaigned for no political parties on DTC
Labour in the main just all vote the same way
Either through belief
Or no bottle
I do believe decision making should be as local as possible
But we do tend to miss opportunities
We have at least one council to many
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 453
I hope our mayor did not claim expenses and use the company car for an event outside DTC area
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
a thought, to save the money spent on the mayor's pi55 up, why not sack the town clerk make her mayor for the next 4/5 years. in the meen time re advertise her job for a more qualified one.
