A little bit of politics

A bit of politics today with the upcoming set of elections looming but first a nod in the direction of Simon Moores who has been elevated to TDC’s Cabinet to replace the sacked Jo Gideon. I suppose that many people especially in Westgate had high hopes of our Simes when he was first elected the TDC. He was perceived to be one of a new breed of Tory who would stand up to the Leadership and tell it like it is but he seems to have been sucked in and now sits within a Cabinet that has overseen a series of disasters and non actions and will have to sit by as the Council continues to lurch from crisis to crisis unable to stand up and be critical. This of course assumes that the notion of Collective Responsibility has been explained to him!
A bit closer to home is the small matter of elections to Kent County Council and particularly Ramsgate Parish Council.

I am told that the BNP are putting up a candidate in Ramsgate, what they seem to have overlooked is the fact that many of Ramsgate’s residents fought to defeat a fascist party in Germany and will have no truck with people who dress themselves up as patriots but are no better than the Nazi party in Germany during the 1930’s.

On a rather more serious side there are some well known ‘names’ appearing on the statement of persons nominated posted outside TDC’s offices.
Pat Doyle and Peter Landi who have asserted their independence and disinterest in party politics on many occasions have appeared as official Tory candidates. To those of us who are veterans of Ramsgate political scene this comes as no surprise whatsoever.
Also poking his head above the wall is one Eric Easton, during the time he was a District Councillor several rumours were circulating about him and his business dealings, as with all these things they turned out to be nothing more than rumours, what is an undoubted fact is his reluctance or inability to actually come to a decision, I can remember that whenever a difficult or controversial decision had to be made it was always Eric who was the first to propose that we had yet another report to add to the several we already had.

Rather more amusing is the fact that G.O.D. aka Gerry O’Donnell has put his name forward as a candidate in the Ramsgate Parish election. Despite assertions about candidates in every ward, a strong group of people, blah, blah, blah it seems that Ramsgate First can only muster one candidate and that is, err their Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Secretary, Treasure, Committee and total membership of err, erm, err ONE !!!
Of course non of the other usual suspects have put their heads above the parapet to test their somewhat bizarre policies and theories on the voters. As usual these people are very quick to criticise Councils and Councillors and tell everyone and anyone how much better, cleverer, wiser and more knowledgable they are but when push comes to shove they dont have the courage of their convictions, or maybe they are all so clever they have managed to get their nomination papers in late !!

I don’t feel quite so grumpy now.