How hypocritical of South Thanet’s Conservative MP, Craig Mackinlay, to take a selfie for Twitter with Trussell Trust volunteers collecting for food banks.
Labour
Campaigners protest outside GP surgery in bid to keep emergency stroke services at QEQM Hospital
Read full Isle of Thanet News article here.
Thriving Thanet talk
A quick reminder about the public talk on local wealth-building courtesy of Thanet Gazette. Come and join us on Friday 23 November as we hear about some of the ways in which we can make Thanet thrive.
We need more mental health care, not less
When Thanet Clinical Commissioning Group took the decision not to recommission Thanet’s vital Thinkaction mental health hub, a spokesman claimed that we would be able to access the same services from other providers. In this letter to Thanet Gazette, I share a few home truths.
Keys to prosperity in the north’s great cities
On 1 November 2018, the Guardian ran an article about the radical economic transformation that’s under way in Preston. I wrote a response, highlighting our intention to learn from Preston through radical localised approaches to economic planning. My letter was included in today’s Guardian.
Thanet’s hidden homeless
No one can have failed to notice the shocking rise of homelessness in the UK. This has more than doubled under the Tories, and there’s been a four-fold increase in people sleeping on the streets. Home ownership is at a 30-year low, the building of social rented homes is at an all-time low and one in ten homes is unfit for human habitation. My letter about homelessness in our area was included in today’s Thanet Gazette.
