Should be some interesting contests in this year's elections for seats on Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. The Tories are fighting all seventeen seats, Labour thirteen, Liberal Democrats eleven, UKIP ten, Independents five, Green Party one and English Democrats one.
The big surprise is the number of seats Labour is contesting. the Green Party is concentrating its fire power in Culverden Ward.
One retiring Conservative councillor standing for re-election has an Uckfield, East Sussex home address. Obviously qualifies under other criteria, but really. Paddock Wood to Uckfield must be about twenty miles.
Roy Bullock, as I expected, has stood down in Goudhurst & Lamberhurst.
In Frittenden & Sissinghurst the retiring Conservative councillor has been de-selected and is standing as an Independent. The 'official' Conservative candidate lives in Cranbrook. No other candidates. I expect the Independent to win.
It will be interesting to see if the Independent wins in Cranbrook against the sitting Conservative and a Labour candidate. A Lib Dem won last year.
KENT COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: acerbic, carping, caustic, curmudgeonly,critical, cynical, grumpy, moaning, sardonic and plain speaking.
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