Thursday, February 11, 2010

Kent tory tv...never ours...GONE!

KCC Labour Group Press Release Attached.

Kent Tories Ditch “PET” Project

Yesterday Conservative-run Kent County Council finally decided to pull the plug on a fanciful and expensive luxury pilot project when they decided after two and a half years not to issue a contract to continue with Kent TV, a broadband internet channel.

Since its introduction in September 2007 this has cost Kent taxpayers £600,000 a year, a total cost of £1.5 million. Whilst innovative the concept was never explained to the populace at large and very few taxpayers had ever heard of it and certainly never used it.

From the time of its original inception the Kent County Council Labour Group, at that time the Official Opposition, described the project as “a luxury that the people of Kent could not afford”. At that time the original £600,000 to set up the project coincided with an increase of £600,000 in the cost charged to those vulnerable adults receiving domiciliary care.

Leslie Christie, Leader of Kent County Council Labour Group, said “At long last the Conservative Leadership have listened to what we have been saying since Kent TV’s inception. Its continuance would have been a political embarrassment to them and would not have been accepted by Kent Taxpayers. This administration have been whingeing for years that they don’t get enough money from Government but have wasted £1.5 million on this luxury. It is not good enough for them now to say “we are living in difficult economic times”, they owe an apology to Kent Taxpayers for wasting valuable resources.

I hope this late repentance will apply to another one of their pet projects “Kent Health Watch” which duplicates services provided by the Health Service and which is currently funded at a cost of £300,000 per year. Currently it is costing Kent approximately £1,000 per caller. That also is a luxury we cannot afford.”

More information:

Leslie Christie

Email: leslie.christie@kent.gov.uk

01474 361564

07889 639428

More press releases are available online at http://www.kentlabour.org.uk

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

STV SYMPALS

STV. YOUR VIEWS PLEASE. THIS IS A PREFERENCIAL SYSTEM THAT SELECTS THE FIRST CANDIDATE TO WIN WITH 50%+ OF THE VOTE ALL OTHER CANDIDATES VOTES ARE TRANSFERED TO THE 2ND AND 3ND ETC. A QUOTA NUMBER IS THE NUMBER THAT ALL RUNNER UPS HAVE TO PASS TO GET ELECTED. THIS IS A MEERKAT SYMPALS VERSION. RICH.

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