Thursday 31st July 2008
Boston Standard headline '£652,000 BLACK HOLE'
So BBC has a shortfall...what about the £3,252,000 (2005/6) shortfall in uncollected council/business rates!
Must be an elephant sitting in the room that no-one can see.
Hey, come to think of it...what happened to the £43,400,000 BBC got for the sale of its housing stock in 1999?
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Post Office Card Account update
Tuesday 29th July 2008
Congratulations to the recent 79 MP's who have added their signatures to Early Day Motion 1506 to save the Post Office Card Account.
Sadly Mark Simmonds MP was not amongst them, just some photo-opportunity spread in the Boston Standard when stung by my letter on the subject.
251 have signed so-far, how about it Mark, for your constituents please?
Congratulations to the recent 79 MP's who have added their signatures to Early Day Motion 1506 to save the Post Office Card Account.
Sadly Mark Simmonds MP was not amongst them, just some photo-opportunity spread in the Boston Standard when stung by my letter on the subject.
251 have signed so-far, how about it Mark, for your constituents please?
Thursday, 24 July 2008
ELECTION RESULT
Thursday 24th July 2008
Raymond Singleton-McGuire (CON) 344 - 30.8%
Dr.David Durrant (BBI) 306 - 27.4%
Ossy Snell (LIB/DEM) 213 - 19.1%
David Owens (BNP) 119 - 10.6%
Felicity Ransome (UKIP) 88 - 7.8%
Pam Imlah (LAB) 44 - 3.9%
Well done to Raymond for winning, commiserations to all of us that didn't.
Thank you to the '88', please keep the faith.
I'll be back in May 2009, hope to see some of you again, it's been great fun, let's keep the 'party' in politics!
Kind regards
Felicity
Raymond Singleton-McGuire (CON) 344 - 30.8%
Dr.David Durrant (BBI) 306 - 27.4%
Ossy Snell (LIB/DEM) 213 - 19.1%
David Owens (BNP) 119 - 10.6%
Felicity Ransome (UKIP) 88 - 7.8%
Pam Imlah (LAB) 44 - 3.9%
Well done to Raymond for winning, commiserations to all of us that didn't.
Thank you to the '88', please keep the faith.
I'll be back in May 2009, hope to see some of you again, it's been great fun, let's keep the 'party' in politics!
Kind regards
Felicity
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Polling day post
I would like to thank Dr. David Durrant, Pam Imlah, David Owens, Raymond Singleton- McQuire and Ossy Snell for all fighting a clean campaign focused on the local issues and their respective party policies.
I now respectfully ask that the voters of all persuasions in Coastal turn out to demonstrate their faith in our democratic system.
Please, whoever you support, go and vote, do not let apathy destroy the freedoms won at such a cost by our forebears.
Felicity
I now respectfully ask that the voters of all persuasions in Coastal turn out to demonstrate their faith in our democratic system.
Please, whoever you support, go and vote, do not let apathy destroy the freedoms won at such a cost by our forebears.
Felicity
Eve of poll cards
Wednesday 23rd July 2008
Just off to deliver a few 'eve of poll' cards and here's wishing all candidates the very best of luck for tomorrow.
Just off to deliver a few 'eve of poll' cards and here's wishing all candidates the very best of luck for tomorrow.
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Local Elections May 2007
Tuesday 22nd July 2008
Coastal Ward (2 seats)
Boston Borough Council Elections 2007: Coastal Ward
Boston Bypass Independents
Neil McGregor (E)
681
30.5
N/A
Conservative
Peter Bedford (E)
557
25.0
N/A
Boston Bypass Independents
Harry Windsor
515
23.1
N/A
Independent
Kathryn Dawson
354
15.9
N/A
UK Independence
Felicity Ransome
123
5.5
N/A
Turnout
1,249
41.8
N/A
Boston Bypass Independents gain from Independent
Where were Labour/Lib/Dems and BNP then?
Coastal Ward (2 seats)
Boston Borough Council Elections 2007: Coastal Ward
Boston Bypass Independents
Neil McGregor (E)
681
30.5
N/A
Conservative
Peter Bedford (E)
557
25.0
N/A
Boston Bypass Independents
Harry Windsor
515
23.1
N/A
Independent
Kathryn Dawson
354
15.9
N/A
UK Independence
Felicity Ransome
123
5.5
N/A
Turnout
1,249
41.8
N/A
Boston Bypass Independents gain from Independent
Where were Labour/Lib/Dems and BNP then?
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Boston By-passed?
Sunday 20th July 2008
You hear a lot about a by-pass for Boston and how everyone in public office is clamouring to get one so I may as well add in my fourpence worth.
The Government has washed its hands of the affair and tell us its up to Lincolnshire County Council.
Boston has seven out of seventy seven councillors on LCC, so not much hope there.
LCC cannot fund such a project, it is already £200 million in debt(we pay the interest on this through our Council Tax) and rising.
It had to go cap in hand to the Regional Assembly in Melton Mowbray who only gave Lincolnshire funding for two major road projects, same as it gave the vast county of Rutland, so not much hope there either.
Boston Borough Council, stuffed full of by-pass councillors has NO/ZERO authority to obtain the cash, so even less hope there.
OK what do we do?
We must keep campaigning on this issue but let's be realistic, it will take a very long hard slog over many, many years to get what we deserve and that is why I and local UKIP candidates, as in May last year, will not promise something we cannot deliver within our term of office.
Sadly in the meantime Boston is dying as local people go to Spalding or Skegness to shop as it is so much quicker and despite the horrendous rise in fuel costs still viable economically.
"The party now expects a new road..probably in six or seven years" Cllr Sheila Newell Boston Bypass Independent, May 2007
"..There never was a promise that a by-pass is coming, that's out of our hands" Cllr. Richard Austin, Leader of Boston Bypass Independents, May 2007
"Try turning the traffic lights off at both ends of John Adams Way" Jodie Sutton, UKIP candidate, Five Villages Ward, May 2007
You hear a lot about a by-pass for Boston and how everyone in public office is clamouring to get one so I may as well add in my fourpence worth.
The Government has washed its hands of the affair and tell us its up to Lincolnshire County Council.
Boston has seven out of seventy seven councillors on LCC, so not much hope there.
LCC cannot fund such a project, it is already £200 million in debt(we pay the interest on this through our Council Tax) and rising.
It had to go cap in hand to the Regional Assembly in Melton Mowbray who only gave Lincolnshire funding for two major road projects, same as it gave the vast county of Rutland, so not much hope there either.
Boston Borough Council, stuffed full of by-pass councillors has NO/ZERO authority to obtain the cash, so even less hope there.
OK what do we do?
We must keep campaigning on this issue but let's be realistic, it will take a very long hard slog over many, many years to get what we deserve and that is why I and local UKIP candidates, as in May last year, will not promise something we cannot deliver within our term of office.
Sadly in the meantime Boston is dying as local people go to Spalding or Skegness to shop as it is so much quicker and despite the horrendous rise in fuel costs still viable economically.
"The party now expects a new road..probably in six or seven years" Cllr Sheila Newell Boston Bypass Independent, May 2007
"..There never was a promise that a by-pass is coming, that's out of our hands" Cllr. Richard Austin, Leader of Boston Bypass Independents, May 2007
"Try turning the traffic lights off at both ends of John Adams Way" Jodie Sutton, UKIP candidate, Five Villages Ward, May 2007
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