Parish Council elections

This May all nine seats on Rusthall Parish Council are up for election.  the Council was formed in 2011.  Since the first election all the councillors have been either elected unopposed or co-opted.  So much for the claims by the protagonists for the parish council to be formed that it would lead to an increase in democratic participation.  Instead the electorate has been lumbered with paying for a clerk, offices, website and other expenses and for what?  Answers on a postage stamp.

Rubbish article in The Times of Tunbridge Wells

Rarely have I read such rubbish as published on page 6 of this week's Times of Tunbridge Wells concerning the forthcoming election in Park Ward.  The simpleton who wrote the article doesn't realise that if there are two seats being contended each elector has two votes.  The author of the piece is working on the basis that each elector has only one vote, hence the tripe about 'splitting the vote' should a party put up two candidates.