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News and Comment November 2023

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9 November - Back in the fray

234 Maiden Lane, Crayford 4 Medway Road, CrayfordReporting on nothing more than the sale of social housing (click the images for details of more) is no way to keep BiB going, so encouraged by a friendly Councillor I drove to Oakhouse Road last night, encountered a driver who expected me to back off 100 yards when he came round the blind corner at the end when all he had to do was reverse for one car length, and eventually I ended up in the Council Chamber.

I don’t think I have actually attended a Full Council meeting this year (†), preferring the comfort of home, maybe watching a film and praying that the webcast is not a technical disaster.

As such, Councillors, officials and me were all a year older, some sporting new hairstyles and beards.

Counclllor James Hunt was the first to welcome me ‘home’ followed by (in alphabetical order) Councillors Kurtis Christoforides, John Davey, Richard Diment, Steven Hall, Lisa Moore, Peter Reader, June Slaughter, Cameron Smith and you can be pretty sure Andy Dourmoush would have been among them if he wasn’t being tied up in chains. Mayoral ones of course. And for the record he proved to be a very long way from being the worst of the Full Council chairmen I have observed.

Steven Hall (Conservative, East Wickham) was particularly kind with his comments directed at a mutual friend who was very pleased to have them delivered to Ramsgate today.

It was an interesting meeting and even the Motion should provide a pretty good story. When it will land on these pages is not easy to predict. I have visitors coming round expecting me to set up the home cinema. Far more interesting than the theatre which is Councillors’ question time.


† I am embarrassed to say that the last Full Council attended in person (not the very last meeting) was 18 months ago.

 

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