Forget scoring has been elected on less than 40 LETTER OF THE WEEK per cent of the vote! I’m trying to imagine if the vote points sort debt had been exactly reversed, whether BASED on your report re Mr Tim the ‘Remoaners’ would be claiming Farron, he states that the Conserv- it was unfair, should be rerun, they atives promise of £350m/week would be dictating to the other would be spent on the NHS and has half, etc... etc? quietly abandoned. More chance of the Pope getting I clearly remember Mr Gove married! saying – and it was on a TV DR Hodges is living in a dream programme – that we pay £350m world if he thinks we can negotiate to the EU each week and if we with them and attempt to return weren’t in they would give them to sanity. Who found £10billion (which equates difficulty even agreeing to to£190m approx/week) when the Dilettante Dave’s minor altera- negotiations had been completed tions! Who sat back and watched which is somewhat different from Greece crumble, steadfastly his statement. He has always when refusing to admit defeat on the I have listened to him put Britain Euro! Who watched the down. appalling problems created by I believe he ought to address far Shenegen, as their indigenous more important issues which to me populations suffered and are that countries in the EU are even died for their madness! suppose to be partners and work Restore home rule to Who ensured that GB didn’t have together, in reality every country any effect over the last 75 EU votes looks after its own interests a good and was ignored on most issues, as example is the problems of Greece City of Merkel and Hollande run the show, where Germany wouldn’t give any some democracy that DR Hodges thinks is so precious!! help after its own country had THE 1972 Redcliffe-Maud Report Council and ending five hundred substantial help in 1953 for on local government reorganisa- and twenty-six years of histori- Phil Granger, rebuilding its economy. tion was a compromise. Govern- cally important independence for What will happen with other ment subsequently recognised it the County of the City of Canterbury. countries such as Italy, Spain, did not provide involvement for County boroughs were the Portugal even France who are communities in the cities and original all-in-one single tier ‘The UK is just heading to a financial problems if towns within the large districts, local authority, with both the they haven’t got them already, resulting in the option of Area city council and county council the first domino’ would Britain have to dig deeper Member Panels able to be responsibilities fully integrated. A ‘SLENDER majority, almost into our pockets to help them if we introduced, but only as discussion The Canterbury Education 50/50’ in the EU referendum is a stayed in. We are already in a forums, making recommenda- Authority of the County of the City ‘dictatorship’ to be compared, dreadful financial mess with a debt tions to committees, not decisions. of Canterbury was also the paid presumably, with the European of £1.7 trillion and getting bigger In March 2013, the Canter- managing agent for the St Commission of twenty eight souls, by the day. bury Area Member Panel Augustine’s Division of the is it? I take issue with DR Hedges I would suggest rather than he unanimously resolved not to Education Authority, demonstrat- (Letter of the Week, 23/24 July.) trying to score points he should be implement the Westgate Towers ing an effective and efficient use of The electorate voted to leave the sorting out the problems his party Traffic Trial but were then over scarce resources without overlap- EU, the majority in favour was in had a hand in creating, that is ruled on Canterbury District ping layers. Counties corporate excess of 1.27 million; or to put it make Britain pay its way not make Council by the interference of became county boroughs under another way, more than fourteen the debt greater. outside Councillors representing the Local Government Act 1888. full capacity Wembley stadiums. There are many other issues Wards in Bridge, , Herne Kent had only one . Given that a single vote either way such as how many criminals are Bay and . Other towns became boroughs but won the day, it wasn’t even close. out on the streets because of the In 1448, King Henry VI not with county powers. The gap would have been even ECJ and human rights those are granted Canterbury a Royal At the entrance to the Westgate greater but for Remain’s drip, drip the issues that need attending to. Charter, decreeing the City Gardens next to the Westgate Tow- Operation Fear designed to frighten should be “of one Mayor and one ers there is a clue to the historical David Preston us into staying. Inter alia, Fear commonalty, wholly corporate importance of the original City of Tunbridge Wells comprised decimation of the econo- for ever”. The charter conferred Canterbury. The signboard serves

feedback my, a punishment budget, our very county powers on the city. as a reminder of the importance of own ‘Jungle’, the break up of the “For ever” came at midnight the county status granted to the UK, possible world conflict and Majority going on March 31, 1974, with the city and removed as part of the interventions by the G20, Obama, implementation of the Local arbitrary one-size-fits-all amalga- and the Bank of . There was to airport talks Government Act 1972 abolish- mation of boroughs into larger an unexplained two-day extension ing the County of the City of districts, which took effect MAY I say that it is enlightening to to online registration because those Canterbury, Bridge-Blean Rural forty-two years ago. read that hundreds of people have who were apathetic until ninety your say… District Council, Long live restoration of the been turning up to attend Riv- minutes before the deadline Urban District Council, and City of Canterbury as a County erOak’s informal consultation managed to crash the website. Whitstable Urban District Borough! Send us your views. events for their plans to re-open We are not losing our friendship, Council; replacing them by one Write to: Kent House, Manston Airport. Richard West, trade and cooperation with our larger Canterbury District 81 Station Road, Ashford, It puts the events run by Stone Canterbury European neighbours. We are TN23 1PP Hill Park Ltd, of their plans to build leaving the EU, a political project throwing their toys out of the Email: at least 2,500 houses and a which has become a bureaucratic, ‘Remoaners’ still pram! [KoS Letters 24/07]. [email protected] “mixed-use development” on the profligate and dictatorial institu- Going by the gospel according to Twitter: site, to shame! tion that needs toppling. The UK is throwing toys... DR Hodges, most of our general @kosmedia just the first domino. elections have not been democratic Ralph Allison Malcolm Brockman, OH dear, the ‘Remoaners’ are still and led to dictatorships, as parties Gillingham. Loose

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