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Charles Horton, MD of Southeastern Trains, will meet rail pasengers at Sittingbourne Station on 6th June 2008 at 7am; Derek will be in attendance
5th-11th May 2008
Barack all set to win nomination (07.05.08)
It looks as though Barack Obama has won the nomination to lead the Democrats in the Presidential elections as he took North Carolina easily and just lost Indiana; for the sake of America and the rest of the world, Hillary Clinton must do the decent thing and stand down.
MP donates £100 to SSAFA (06.05.08)
Derek has today donated £100 to Brian Lyons at SSAFA for a fee he received for an interview.
New record for web site (05.05.08)
There were 21,624 unique visitors to this site last week, a new record which alongside its sister site
www.derekwyatt.tv , has been entered for the
New Statesman award; see
www.newstatesman.com Daily Mirror interview (05.05.08) Derek was interviewed by the
Daily Mirror for tomorrow's paper about last week's local elections.
28th April - 4th May 2008
Labour hold 2 seats and loses 1 in Swale BC elections (03.04.08)
Labour held Chalkwell and Roman but lost Queenborough & Halfway, a seat that has gone backwards and forwards of late between the Tories and ourselves.
Rosie Winterton MP, Roads Minister, meets Sittingbourne Town Centre group (30.04.08)
Fifteen people drawn from the public and private sector involved in the future of Sittingbourne Town Centre incluidng Tory politicians, from both Swale BC and KCC, attended a private luncheon hosted by local MP Derek Wyatt, where the guest of honour was Rosie Winterton MP, Roads Minister. The two items on the menu were: the Northern Relief Road and Exit 5 from the M2.
Road Haulage Lobby to Parliament (29.04.08)
MP Derek Wyatt received the lobby this afternoon which included several local road hauliers. He was interviewed on BBC SE, Meridian, Sky News and Radio 4's PM.
Meeting with Simon Bartley, UK Skills CEO (28.04.08)
In the light of the two large developments - £500 million at Queenborough and £1.2 billion in Sittingbourne - MP Derek Wyatt raised the issue of a likely skills shortage locally with Simon unless comprehensive plans were in place, not only to build the projects but, as importantly, to service them once built. This is part of the reason why Derek has agreed to chair the Skills Group for the Island.
Cameron takes aim at Gordon Henderson According to
www.telegraph.co.uk David Cameron, Leader of the Tory Party, took aim at local Tory candidate, Gordon Henderson for his stance on Europe:
"But conversely, he also had strong words for those in the party who want to respond to the threat from the UK Independence Party by taking a more stridently eurosceptic line.
"Some say we'd win Sittingbourne in Kent if we hadn't lost 1,000 votes to UKIP," he said. "Well I say, if only Labour hadn't got 17,000 votes."
This could be interpreted as a sideswipe at Gordon Henderson, the man who has been selected to fight the Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency for the Tories at the next election: he is the only Conservative prospective candidate so far to have signed up to the Freedom Association's Better Off Out campaign to withdraw from the European Union.
Web Sites
In 2006, this site won the New Statesman Award for Best Elected Representative and in 2007, it won the inaugural British Computer Society's award for "Engagement". Derek has another web site at www.derekwyatt.tv