Kent's Democracy Movement Held Back

Just a brief note about Kent Council funded broadcast propaganda arm Kent TV, some weeks ago Peter Gilroy, Kent councils chief executive was kind enough to respond to my question as to when Kent TV might have ordinary members of the public as follows "We will be advertising for two members of the public to be part of the Board and the advert is currently being prepared. All those wishing to apply will be able to do so through the Kent TV website and we are aiming for this process to begin in early June."

Having checked the Kent TV website , today I still can find no advertisement for membership to the governing board of this one of Kent's latest public funded Quangos.

For many Kent TV steps over the boundaries of what is expected of local authorities, as one who feels uncomfortable with suggestions of overt political bias and promotion of Freemasonry, I would like an opportunity to become a governor of the out of public control broadcast company.

Lets just remind ourselves that Kent council squanders 8 million pounds a year on questionable advertising which if you were to divide between the three major publishers (Kent Messenger, Kent on Sunday, and Kent Regional Newspapers) comes out at 2.6 million quid a year.

Of course this is a rather simplistic suggestion, because Kent often spends a few quid on other newspapers when advertising bloated management positions, plus a few bones as it were, at local Broadcast types.

Any way as one of Kent's dissidents of whom there must be a growing number, I would like the opportunity to delve into Kent's most contentious waste of money Kent TV.

I just hope that one day Kent will open its quangos to public scrutiny, considering Kent is such a blooming marvelous local authority, as Paul Carter is always telling us, why is it taking so long to advertise positions for governors of Kent TV.

Well I'm sure that the output of Kent TV is no way biased just check out these classics "Cameron Comes to Kent" , "Helen Grant's Candidacy", " Towards 2010 " and just prove how honest this all is " Cllr Mike Eddy : Interview " (Labour group leader whose charisma is almost equal to Paul Carters).

Finally, just a quick illustration of how well Kent, do media, this is the response I received after sending a comment to Paul Carters Blog, "I am writing on behalf of Paul Carter, Leader of Kent County Council to acknowledge and thank you for your email of 16 June 2008 providing feedback to the Leader's blog in relation to failing schools. Your comments have been passed to Mr Carter for his attention. Yours sincerely" This is a better response than you'll receive from Bignews Margate since I frequently don't check my emails for days at a time, I have tried to get Mr Puss to handle this side of things but since he was recently implicated in pinching a chicken fillet, my dinner, things have become a little strained ( in fairness Mr Puss was only an accessory caught trying to eat what remained of the crime scene).

You might wonder why you read so little about Kent county media spend, I'm sure the press have their reasons er probably eight million!