The Reform UK candidate for East Thanet has been announced as Paul Webb.
The party says: “The professional photographer has a career spanning nearly 40 years, photographing sports stars, celebrities, politicians and royalty, as well as promotional work for well-known businesses and venues in Thanet.
“He is family man, who, as a self-employed businessman, had to navigate the economic difficulties of lockdown and has added taxi driver to his work to make ends meet.
“Paul’s view is that the combination of 14 years the Tories and the previous 13 year of Labour mean that the established parties have presided over a nearly 30 year era of total mismanagement of this country of monumental proportions. The British people have had enough and the birth of Reform UK was necessary to fill the political vacuum at the centre of UK politics to represent the British people. Nothing works properly in this country. Individually we all experience the problems on a daily basis.
“On July 4th, your vote really does matter. A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for Labour. Reform UK is the only party willing to stand up to Keir Starmer in opposition – and it starts at the polling stations in East Thanet.
“In the 2015 general election, 16000 people in Thanet voted for Nigel Farage, he was right then and he is right now. Reform UK has practical policies to address our problems.
https://www.reformparty.uk/our-contract-with-you
“We CAN be optimistic about our country’s future. We CAN cut the tax burden. We CAN cut the waiting lists. We CAN fix our roads. We CAN improve our schools. We CAN cut crime. We CAN stop the boats. We CAN fix broken Britain. Together.”
The South Thanet and North Thanet constituencies no longer exist; the boundaries were updated by the Boundary Commission and the new constituencies are East Thanet constituency and the Herne Bay and Sandwich constituency.
Westbrook, Birchington, Garlinge, Thanet villages wards and Westgate form part of a Herne Bay and Sandwich County Constituency while East Thanet takes in Ramsgate, Broadstairs and most of Margate.
Other candidates for East Thanet are Polly Billington (Labour) Steve Roberts (Green) Helen Harrison (Conservative and Unionist Party) and Jai Singh (Liberal Democrats).
Reform for me.
what is it about a ltd company (not political party) that gives paid up members ZERO voting rights on policy or leadership, akin to a dictatorship, that you most align with?
Reform for me.
We now have the full set of prospective candiddates, pretty sure Webb will collect a lot of disaffected tories and protest voters ( assuming people can actually be bothered to go out and vote) , won’t win but i’d really like them to beat the tories and give them the bloody nose they deserve.
So Reform are going to cut taxes, improve hospital waiting times, improve schools, stop the boats , improve the roads and gawd knows what else.
But as usual with these people they never tell you where the money is to come from to do it all. Dog whistling at its best.
No , they’re going to do none of those as they’ll never be elected, they’re solely looking to see how much support they really have and if its enough they’ll have a chance of forming a proper party to possibly form a real opposition party over the next 5 years.
But are their promises any more believable than any from the tories or labour? The basic facts are we’re re skint, fat and lazy, seemingly intent on filling the country with cheap labour, to do the jobs those already in the country won’t do ( preferring to rely on social support instead). Migration has increased the population by 2% in the last 2 years , where was the additional spending on services etc?
The whole economy is cloud cuckoo land, just walk down the local highstreets and look at all the non the non businesses.
All the talk of crackdowns on tax evasion and avoidance is pointless when so many enterprises are little more than fronts for criminality.
How many car washes , comply with environmental laws, are registered for vat ( one look at the number of staff means that if they are on even minimum wage there’s no way they are under the threshold) cash business , blatant tax fraud, but nothing ever seems to be done. The amount of duty free tobacco and alcohol in cliftonville, we get the occasioanl raid but nothing meaningful happens. The shops with less stock than i have under my sink, but 3 staff.
A health service that willl never keep up with the self inflicted woes people bring on themselves be that through overeating or the addiction to their phone and the delusions they have of superstar influencer lifestyles they think they should have and then don’t want to cope in the real world.
I was recently in Keighly. ( yorkshire) a run down tatty area akin to a very large cliftonville, but in a dirty side street a huge showroom stuffed with 100k plus sports cars. Another no 15mmiles away. No way the area supports those from leagal income.
Here are the policies with costs and savings.
More than you get from the other three WEF members/puppets!
Not fot me. Reform is about the fourth name UKIP have changed to. They are still UKIP Changing a name is nothing Farage is an admirer of Trump, do we need a man who supports the likes of Trump and Johnson ?
Yes
Just like, ukip and the brexit party, Farage is doing yet another political grift. Lets hope this time he doesn’t stand down candidates and allegedly run off with their deposits again. Given Farage (oleg derispaka/dmytro firtash/putin/yakovenko/aron banks) and Tices (tom barrack/epstein) alleged connections I couldn’t knowingly vote for such corrupt individuals.
Don’t then, plenty of others will.
Not reform, they are UKIP, a single agenda party who lied through there teeth to get brexit, then ran for the hills before they could be scrutinised. It’s a flip of a small coin, who are the bigger liers, Reform, or Tories?
They’re two sides of the same coin, both owned by the russian via usa (koch network) funded think tanks in tufton st.
Is he a local lad? Just heading out for a walk, so I’ve no time to google (Steve has more spare time than me, he can do it).
Duurh! Reform reformed from UKIP, they always have simple answers for simpletons. Like tow the inflatable boats back to Calais, how will that stop them? It more likely that UK boats doing the towing, will be impounded by the French for invading their territorial space, again Duuurh!
Well Mr. Dumpton, you’ve rubbished the candidates of every party so far… who are you voting for?
Probably going to sit on my hands again Ms Pink, voting only encourages them as we used to say in the 60’s. If we had a decent PR system I would be challenged, as they are all no hopers, apart from the Greens.
Then you have no right to complain about who is elected. Every vote makes a difference!
Just googled him – he’s from Bobbing! At least that’s Kent I suppose.
This means that there are NO local candidates for East Thanet! Are you people that criticised Craig for living in Medway really going to vote for any of these clowns?? If I lived in the area, I’d use my voting paper in the toilet, it would be of more use.
No bidet ?
You mean the foot washer?
I know you’d never vote for them but Steve Roberts for the Green Party is a local
Actually I have voted Green in the past (albeit for a KCC cllr)… but I’m in Herne Bay and Sandwich constituency, where we have a wealth of local candidates.
I’m not particularly a fan of her, but surely Karen Constantine would’ve made a good East Thanet Labour candidate?
You’d think so. I think the Labour NEC has been taking a leaf out of the Conservative book this election and has been parachuting in their own choices in most places that won’t make headline news (e.g. Thanet, North Durham etc.)
I’m still not completely ruling out voting for Helen Whitehead.
Polly Billington, Labour, of the Labour luvvies Billington family, still lives in Islington. A typical carpetbagger.
Ooh, Betty!
Constantine has too much smoke swirling around her, maybe only one small fire hidden somewhere but it’ll be there somewhere and would be outed in a flash if it suited, it’s how party headquarters on all sides are able to parachute their preferred candidates in pretty much as they please,
No I am not
Reform are promising better public services ; fixing potholes, reducing NHS waiting lists etc. They are saying this in the same breath as cutting taxes – they are just like the other political parties.
I wouldn’t vote for them but am digging the Patrick Swayze Point Break era look.
Yes – at least Thanet’s two Reform candidates look cool!
Reform has a colourful candidate standing in Faversham & Herne Bay. A Mail on Sunday investigation revealed her to be a self-proclaimed witch, offering her services as a psychic & spell caster on a pornographic website.
Reform banned her from hosting an event in Westgate with its deputy leader Ben Habib due to her far-right ideas! Voters of Sandwich & Herne Bay beware!
She still looks cool.
The Reform candidate is a surfer!
Getting my vote .
Reform for me
Reform for reform
The Farage barrage is coming….duck
Tories second XI – trouble here is that the Tory Party hasn’t got a 1st X1 here, just a woman who got the worst result and the biggest swing to Labour in the Guinness Book of Records! We had nine times loser Nasty Nigel here and now world beating Wellingborough failure. What has Thanet done to deserve this shower?
You’re not voting Labour?
But to be fair Farage only lost in thanet in 2015 as a result of the tories overspending and the help of the “Pub Landlord” coming from nowhere ( politically) and disappearing ( politically) just as fast. In a fair fight Farage would have been the areas MP.
And he had pretty good local links his early days having been funded by a local bookmaker.
Well said Keith! On the ball as usual!
Thought it was Richard Clayderman.
I am a life long Labour supporter however I will not be voting for anyone in the election because Ramsgate Town Council and Thanet District Council opposition to Manston Airport reopening. I might be lots of things but I’m no hypocrite. As for lying Farage
He has done untold damage to the economy and to the U.K. generally he and Reform are just a bunch of wide boys who go through life blaming all those around them yet never looking in a mirror at themselves. If you vote reform you must be a very gullible person who believes the rubbish that farage and Johnson should be in prison for deceit and fraud .
The Labour group at Thanet District Council have no policy of opposition to Manston Airport. A number of us met with RSP and toured the site to hear about their plans.
Whether or not Manston is a success is purely down to their ability to secure the investment they need and has nothing to do with any political party.
As a lifelong Labour voter – you will know that we need to get this country back on its feet after the shambles and austerity of the last 14 years with sensible, progressive policies aimed at bettering the lives of everyone in our community.
Vote Labour
Well apart from your Leader going on record predicting it will fail and your Ramsgate Town Councillors using taxpayers money to oppose it.
But, yeah ok, we are now supposed to believe the local Labour airport position is a neutral one.
Mr Bright – and you seriously believe a Labour Government will improve my lot! Looking at their front bench I am in despair should they be elected.
Yes I do.
Sensible, costed policies that make a positive difference.
We’re going to see the end of the chumocracy.
No more giving £m contracts to their mates or declining to follow up on COVID fraud.
No more giving peerages to Russian oligarchs or work-experience girls.
I think we all need change.
And, according to your colleague Barry, you’re bringing back all the scrapped bus routes in Thanet (really looking forward to the return of the Minnis Bay to Ramsgate coastal route!).
Mr Bright – And you believe that tripe? Costed policies from Labour, that’s a first. As for chumocracy? Look at the expenses claimed by this Raynor individual and Labour politicians nicely summed up. No thank you and our country will take a dive for five years.
Last labour government gave the biggest uplift to working and middle classes since the creation of the nhs. Shoot yourself in the foot if you want, but I know which way I’ll be voting.
What, by introducing university fees? I’m sure many young people today are very grateful to them.
“No policy of opposition” wallpaper weasel words , just because there’s no overt opposition doesn’t mean that you support it either, there must surely be an opinion one way or the other given the size of the site and how its eventual use would affect the manner in which the isle develops, to ignore the issue and have no opinion is just nonsense intended to avoid losing votes from either side of the Manston debate and the divided support it has.
That fence at Manston is going to collapse with all those Labour politicians sitting on it.
Ms pink, if labour take control of kcc we will
Introduce transport for Kent which will increase the reliability and affordability of buses
In kent rather than only running buses for profit which adds to social isolation and reliance on cars.
They are already very affordable, thanks to the Tory government slashing fares to £2 per journey (as opposed to the nearly £7 previously for a trip into Canterbury). Are you REALLY telling us that Labour will reduce them even further?
A far better plan would be to give free passes to the over 60s (as they do in London, Wales and Scotland) instead of the current over 66 as in most of England.
Still wondering what price Labour intends to reduce bus fares to… though judging by his comments, I don’t believe Barry even uses buses.
How will you fund this Mr Lewis?
I’m not sure Ramsgate Town Council would agree with you Kristian. I am dismayed by your comment as I am sure is Rick Everett. Your dismal attempt to please everyone will get you nowhere.
Your support for the cargo hub is absurd and unwelcome and hypocritical as well as politically incoherent from a local lens. I’ll be voting Green.
Cllr Bright your reference to Labour’s historical position on the airport is completely incorrect.
I also expect you had something to do with car parking transgressors providing a celebratory jackpot for TDC with an under-staffed parking enforcement team.
The enforcer/s hit residential areas particularly on a Sunday morning whilst people are asleep. The cars certainly aren’t contributing to the grid lock throughout Thanet on a ‘normal’ day.
The fact is that there is insufficient parking for the residents in towns who don’t have the luxury of drives and environmentally unfriendly hard standing ‘gardens’.
Fining people because of TDC’s lack of provision for sufficient basic adequate parking is fraudulent.
It’s not unlike flogging Coca-Cola, tooth rot, toilet cleaner as a fun drink.
You may know something about that of course.
Who voted to donate £10000 of taxpayers money to fight against Manston Airport reopening.
Manston ain’t gunna be opening for a while, going off the alleged Military base/migrant camp expansion going up on the runway at the minute (huge white marquee tent).
A vote for the Tories is a vote for Labour? Er, no-a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour. Like UKIP the only MP Reform have managed to get is a Tory jumping off the sinking ship recently.
Farage who claims to be the most popular politician in the UK is in reality a seven time loser to become an MP & your ‘party’ is a joke that just ousts their leader without a vote to pander to publicity hungry grifter Farage in a coup, just days after another of his lies(like Brexit) that he wasn’t interested in standing.
You are just a bunch of disaffected far right-wing Tories, interested only in the rich, with no chance of getting into office, or even getting MP’s unless they walk like 30p Lee-like UKIP were. Look at your party-full of former Tory party members/candidates-Farage, Tice, Widdecombe-who served in the cabinet under Major, Bull etc.
So Farage has achieved exactly what he wanted by standing for Parliament – lots more publicity for Reform, and a commensurate rise in their national profile. The trouts have all swallowed the lure, it appears…
He may be a loser in electoral terms, but he still remains highly influential.
“my milkshake brings all the twunts to the yard and they’re like, ms pinks a dullard”
I’ll quite happily be one of your “twunts” as you’ve instantly lost your argument having had to resort to inane insults due to a lack of reasoned argument. A common trait of the more left leaning.
Throwing drinks is about as eloquent as they get!
Very true , but politely pointing out that they’re generally ignorant oafs does no harm.
It was a joke mate. Nice projection of your ignorant oaf status onto someone who made a joke you didn’t like/get, too. I’m also not left leaning. I’m a centrist who leans socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
Don’t give up the day job (in the unlikely event that you have one), dude.
Looking forward to hearing him speak, and answer questions so we can decide to vote for him (or not). Please advise any venue where he is going to speak. Thanks S
He’s not there as a meaningful candidate, all he needs to do is point people to the Reform website and posters, the point of reform in this election is to offer somewhere for those disillusioned with UK politics to express that dismay, it won’t change the result, but it will tell Reform if they’ve judged the public mood sufficiently well to try and form a real party to fight the 2029 election, by which time labour will have run us into the ground and so long as they’re not able to twist the electoral system to their whim ( votes for 16 year olds and eu citizens living here etc) and so make themselves an effective dictatorship until such time as they’ve spent everyone elses money and can no longer buy votes.
I have lived in Thanet for over 40 years and have been through both Laboyr and Conservative MPs. None have brought any prosperity to the area and all their legacy is thousands of ugly houses. Not one has really cared about the area. Paul Webb ( Reform) gets my vote this time. Polly Billington isn’t local and the Conservative is the wife of disgraced MP Peter Bone and who lives ( wait for it) in Northamptonshire !! You couldn’t make it up.
why would you vote for a party that isn’t a political party, but a limited company, PLC? Structured as such, that paying members don’t get a vote on leadership, nor get a vote on policy direction like every other political party, that is set up as a party.
As seen by Farage’s usurping of Tice as leader last weekend…
You really wanna vote for a “party” set up as a director based dictatorship?
New blood is needed in our political landscape….i will be giving Paul Webb my vote ! At least he lives in Kent and obviously knows the area …not like Labour or conservatives who are being thrown in by FAILING GOVERNMENTS, He appears to be a working man , not a careerist which makes a change… and
Change is desperately needed , Thanet has been neglected for years , nothing to loose by trying a newbie !
“not like Labour or conservatives who are being thrown in by FAILING GOVERNMENTS”
Labour haven’t been in power for FOURTEEN YEARS, Karen.
Lets hope Farage doesn’t stand his PPCs down and run off with candidates deposits, again, eh?
“lose”, not “loose”!
Maybe they’re firing arrows blindly…lolz
Reform has a colourful candidate standing in Sandwich & Herne Bay. A Mail on Sunday investigation revealed her to be a self-proclaimed witch, offering her services as a psychic & spell caster on a pornographic website.
Reform banned her from hosting an event in Westgate with its deputy leader Ben Habib due to her far-right views on immigration! Voters of Sandwich & Herne Bay beware!
I believe everything I read in The Mail.
The Tories are about to get a massive boost: tomorrow night, Penny Sword Woman and Ginger Northern Bird are debating live on TV!
I think if people are waiting on manifestos or hustings to make there minds up like it’s some kind of reality show of popularity for politicians, no wonder this countries going down the pan. Look at how Services and people have been effected in the last 14 years, I couldn’t care less if the other non tory candidates come out dressed as punk rockers, swearing, acting like clowns, they have to go a lot further for a lit longer to reach the Tories track record of disgrace, the government are a laughing stock around the world. Even third world dictators are studying the Tories because they have seen how they have got away with mugging the nation off.
I may or may not vote Tory, and I may or may not vote Labour… but it will be for what they can do locally rather than for the country.
Short sighted, the promise from your beloved breezy will be broken. You have already voted without seeing policies manifestos or seeing the full list of candidates, you love Windy.
And you’ve already ruled out everyone except Labour, Welsh bloke.
Wrong again, carry on, your doing well. But then why let the truth, facts, and evidence get in the way of a good tory lie, they’ve only been lying to everyone for 14 years while smiling at you and promising the earth while putting this country on a avoid at all cost for other countries apart from migrants and putin. Everyone knows your a windy tory lover.
“We CAN stop the boats. ”
How?
The same way we did 80-odd years ago?
And how was that? Was there a particular problem with illegal immigration in WW2?
You’re old enough to remember.
Well no, actually.
Clearly you have some understanding of the situation, so perhaps you’d enlighten us?
You look it.
At source, do you know how many millions we pay the French to prevent this, they do nothing and ask for more money, then the cost of the rawanda several times failed attempt of deportation costs, this is not sustainable, stop it at source. The Tories do not have the know how or bottle to do what really needs doing.
The french have offered the Tories MULTIPLE times to build processing centres in Calias. The Tories continually refuse. They’re milking the situation they created for socio-political cultural capital.
Enlighten us Steve, what “really needs doing”… and how is your beloved Polly from Islington going to help achieve this?
Steve? Steve?!
You’ve gone all quiet.
We can’t stop the boats, all we could do is remove the attractions that draw people to this country, so no benefits, they never get a passport, no access to social housing, use of any state service is billed. Not allowed a driving licence etc etc, but the liberla left will not even consider reducing our generosity. But then again illegal migration is a non problem in comparison to legal migration, the countries health epeidemics of excess weight and a total lack of mental resilience, but again much of that stems from too generous a welfare state.
After 14 yrs of total Tory incompetence, lies, ever higher taxes + more + more government interference in our lives, total failure to stop the small boats + taking us ever closer back to the EU + all its stifling regulations + corruption, in spite of the Brexit vote + the highest prices in Europe for gas + electricity for domestic + business users, it’s time for real change! No, not more of the same or probably worse under labour! It’s time for Reform, so the Reform party will get my vote.
Since you have absolutely no idea what I look like, you’re not in a position to comment.
But you could expand on your comment on Reform’s ambition to stop the boats. You said it could be achieved the same way as 80 years ago.
How waw that achieved?
I do. I’ve met you, ditto M&M. You may not venture as far as Birchington, but I’m often in Ramsgate.
I can assure you that you have not met me.
Now, back to my original question, in response to a comment I made;
Just how are we going to stopcthe boats, just like we did 80 years ago?
If you check the date, you will see that on this day 80 years ago 150,000 men in lots of small boats were going the other way.
I’m looking forward (though I won’t hold my breath) to your coherent reply.
Well ,Phyllis,Peter Checksfield may have met me in Ramsgate but I don’t remember meeting him. Regular readers of this paper have probably seen at least one photo of him. But there are very few photos of me around.
AS the late great Frank Ifield said “I remember you-oo!”.
This is my final request for you to stop needling this contributor. Please refrain from communicating with each other, it really isn’t necessary
Just stating a fact. I HAVE met her.
Phyllis, no point in having a meaningful discussion with Pinkie, she is great at correcting grammar however makes comments which only fits her narrative and has no substance, evidence or fact. Just like the Tories. Headline grabbing by lies. Proven and factual, with supporting evidence.
Pinkie also suffers from limited vision in that he thinks Reform’s candidate in Herne Bay & Sandwich (Amelia Randall) looks ‘young and cool!’ Time to book in at Specsavers Pinkie!
Amelia, a practicing psychic witch with a penchant for advertising her services on pornographic websites, as revealed in the Mail On Sunday, provided a photo that is at least 20 years old. She was even vetoed by Reform and prevented from hosting their deputy leader Ben Habib at an event in Westgate due to her strange ideas.
Birchingon also has a Tory psychic tarot reader, TDC councillor Emma Dawson, a resident of St Peters, who advertises herself on a psychic phoneline as Aura Rose! It seems we have no shortage of soothsayers!
Why are people asking me about Reform’s policies? I do not represent them, and I do not intend to vote for them. If Phyllis wasn’t so stupid, she’d probably manage to email the candidates, and ask them questions herself.
As for “looking cool”, age doesn’t come into it. Keith Richards will always look cool!
“Stupid” Phyllis is asking “Ms Pink” to clarify a comment (s)he made about boats and events 80 years ago.
I’m curious to know why “Ms Pink” would assume that a person responding to “her” would be “stupid”.
Though, in a way, I do see her point.
I would also point out that referring to someone as “stupid” contravenes the commenting policy.
I followed your question with another question (hence the question mark?). I don’t know the answer. So use your supreme intelligence, and ask someone from Reform.
Have a great day.
Is it the same website that Angela Rayner’s son is on?
All the answers, non of the solutions
Am I the ONLY person on here undecided (though likely to vote for Tory or Labour), but willing to meet and hear what the candidates have to say? Or are the rest of you like sheep, who always vote for the same party regardless of candidates and policies? Keep an open mind, folks.
Anyway, it’s my “day off”, so we’re off for a 10 mile stroll around what’s left of Thanet’s countryside. Try it folks, will do you all the world of good.
Love, Peace and Pinkness,
Madam Cerise
Reform will get my vote.
I have to ask: why?
Who are you voting for, and why?
Why? After 14 yrs of Tory tax rises, incompetence beyond belief, more and more government interference in our lives, corruption, taking us ever so slowly back into the EU, incapable of dealing with illegal immigration….shall I go on? how much time do you have my dear MARTHA?
Reform for me and my family and friends.
After 14yrs of Tory misrule and general incompetence, Labour will be more of the same, its time for Reform UK for me. Lets really put the cat amongst the pigeons farage in number 10!!!
Tories are due to lose the parliamentary seats of East Thanet and Herne Bay & Sandwich. Hopefully, this will be replicated at the next KCC elections. No more Tory snouts in the trough!