New boundaries for the 2024 General Election.
From the 2024 General Election, the Parliamentary Constituency of Ashford will (pretty ridiculously, in our opinion) include the District of Folkestone and Hythe wards of North Downs East and North Downs West, in addtion to the Ashford Borough Council seats of:
Aylesford & East Stour, Beaver, Bircholt, Bockhanger, Bybrook, Conningbrook & Little Burton Farm, Furley, Goat Lees, Godinton, Highfield, Kennington, Mersham, Sevington South with Finberry, Norman, Park Farm North, Park Farm South, Repton, Roman, Singleton East, Singleton West, Stanhope, Victoria, Washford, Willesborough, Wye with Hinxhill.
The Ashford seat therefore stretches pretty much to the coast, across an area that in no way could be called Ashford: Ashford and North Downs, maybe.
An article in the Sunday Express has pointed at Folkestone and Cheriton as the "perfect template" for how immigrant minorities should assimilate and contribute to a local community, with the areas mix of serving and retired Nepalese soldiers and their families.
The people of Hythe, and particularly those of Hythe West, have been completely vindicated in wanting their petition to be acted upon by the Conservative District Council. They asked for the absent Cllrs Mr & Mrs Oliver to stand down, as they don't feel they can be properly represented from 180 miles away.
A video taken outside the High Court on 30th September (when the High Court ruled saying the Government's position on refusing Gurkhas who retired before 1997 citizenship in the UK was "unlawful" and "unfair") featuring Peter Carroll, Nick Clegg MP and Dhan Gurung has been released at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5NcEaEfsc
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