A Green in the Room Makes a Difference 17 February 2023 / 17 February 2023 by Geoff Mason With less than 3 months to go to the May local elections, this year you’ll need to show photo ID before you can vote. The Government insists that this is to prevent ‘personation’ or voter fraud and yet according to the Electoral Reform Society, there were only 33 cases of personation in 2019 which is […] Read more » Campaigns Community Litter Pick Local Elections Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
A fairer and Greener New Year 6 January 2023 / 6 January 2023 by Geoff Mason We hope everyone had a good Christmas – even if their water had to be trucked into Tesco’s carpark for collection… Water played a big part in shaping a year that most people would like to put behind them, with lack of it causing wildfires in the hottest summer since 1976, followed by winter weeks […] Read more » Boundary Commission Brexit Climate Change Green Belt Local Plan Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
We deserve better than these failures to plan for our town 17 December 2022 / 19 December 2022 by Geoff Mason John Hurst writes 'the last fortnight has shown us two examples of the failure of successive Councils to plan positively for our town' Read more » Local Plan Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
In Conservative Britain The Rich Are Getting Richer 14 November 2022 / 22 December 2024 by Geoff Mason While Liz Truss has been trying to cut taxes for the wealthiest, more and more people across the UK are resorting to foodbanks. Here in the town, we read in last week’s Times of Tunbridge Wells that the Nourish Community Foodbank is struggling to meet demand as rising energy bills and the cost of living […] Read more » Foodbanks Nourish Community Foodbank Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
