You state about Medway Matters Live" Where Hoo brought confrontation, MidKent brought restraint. The council set out its case for difficult choices ahead, but with major plans such as LGR unfamiliar to most in the room, it is unclear whether events like this are building understanding or simply outlining decisions already made" You mean a bit like Cabinet mettings although it seems that increasingly events and Press opportunities are becoming the venue for announcements e.g LGR, Business Improvement Districts and even the long awaited (and welcome) Article 4 directions policy. When will our Democratic Services team and Execuitve actually want to/make the public feel part of local democratic procedures? I wonder if the constitutional changes will be nodded through afterall?
Would it be fair to point out that a Reform UK Elected Councillor was beaten up in the street for simply being a Reform Councillor?
Would it also be fair to wonder if the brick chucking individual was just simply another drunk vandal who was just happening to wander by the Labour office and looking for a suitable place to plant a brick?
I also ask how a link can be made between a proposed UKIP march, and a random act of vandalism against a Labour office.
For the record I have nothing to do with UKIP, never have, never will.
I do find the rather tenuous links between the events a bit grasping at straws.
It’s fair to point it out, and if it had happened in Medway, we’d obviously have covered it. I literally say in the piece that there is the possibility that it was just a random vandal. I’d also suggest I’m not directly linking the events, just contrasting two things happening in Medway this week that potentially demonstrate the increased polarisation in our politics.
If politics is becoming too polarized, maybe it would help if you refrained from gratuitous insults like calling UKIP 'far-right'. It formed the largest UK delegation in the European Parliament after 2014 - pretty mainstream really.
Perhaps at the time they were relatively mainstream, but they clearly aren’t any more. If a party has a leader doing Nazi salutes in public and claiming he will use the military to round up people he doesn’t like, we’re going to call a spade a spade.
“Far right” is a perfectly reasonable description of where overtly nationalist parties sit on the political spectrum. That you view it as an insult probably tells you something.
You state about Medway Matters Live" Where Hoo brought confrontation, MidKent brought restraint. The council set out its case for difficult choices ahead, but with major plans such as LGR unfamiliar to most in the room, it is unclear whether events like this are building understanding or simply outlining decisions already made" You mean a bit like Cabinet mettings although it seems that increasingly events and Press opportunities are becoming the venue for announcements e.g LGR, Business Improvement Districts and even the long awaited (and welcome) Article 4 directions policy. When will our Democratic Services team and Execuitve actually want to/make the public feel part of local democratic procedures? I wonder if the constitutional changes will be nodded through afterall?
Would it be fair to point out that a Reform UK Elected Councillor was beaten up in the street for simply being a Reform Councillor?
Would it also be fair to wonder if the brick chucking individual was just simply another drunk vandal who was just happening to wander by the Labour office and looking for a suitable place to plant a brick?
I also ask how a link can be made between a proposed UKIP march, and a random act of vandalism against a Labour office.
For the record I have nothing to do with UKIP, never have, never will.
I do find the rather tenuous links between the events a bit grasping at straws.
It’s fair to point it out, and if it had happened in Medway, we’d obviously have covered it. I literally say in the piece that there is the possibility that it was just a random vandal. I’d also suggest I’m not directly linking the events, just contrasting two things happening in Medway this week that potentially demonstrate the increased polarisation in our politics.
If politics is becoming too polarized, maybe it would help if you refrained from gratuitous insults like calling UKIP 'far-right'. It formed the largest UK delegation in the European Parliament after 2014 - pretty mainstream really.
Perhaps at the time they were relatively mainstream, but they clearly aren’t any more. If a party has a leader doing Nazi salutes in public and claiming he will use the military to round up people he doesn’t like, we’re going to call a spade a spade.
“Far right” is a perfectly reasonable description of where overtly nationalist parties sit on the political spectrum. That you view it as an insult probably tells you something.