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Dartford Conservatives Updates from your Local Conservatives. Promoted by R Wells, 4 Summerhill Road, Dartford, DA1 2LP

15/10/2026

Five years ago today, Sir David Amess was murdered while doing what he had done for almost 40 years: serving the people who elected him.

He never stopped showing up for them. On the day his life was taken, he was there once again, listening and helping, just as he always had.

Today we remember a much-loved colleague and friend. Above all, our thoughts are with his wife and children, who carry his loss every day.

Labour's new planning laws are taking powers away from Dartford's elected councillors and reducing the say residents hav...
12/10/2026

Labour's new planning laws are taking powers away from Dartford's elected councillors and reducing the say residents have over developments affecting where they live.

Under these changes, which have been forced onto Dartford Borough Council, more planning applications will be decided by officers, even when residents object, meaning local say over local decisions will be reduced.

Dartford Conservatives are fighting back, but we need your support!

Leader of Dartford Borough Council, Cllr Jeremy Kite MBE, said:

"Once again, Labour are trying to punish good Councils for the mistakes of the bad ones.

Their new planning law will take even more control away from residents and elected Councillors. The Government’s presumption that almost all applications should be determined by planning officers, with elected representatives involved in only exceptional cases, is profoundly wrong and will leave local people and communities frustrated and powerless by decisions taken in their name."

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME. SIGN OUR PETITION.

We're calling on the Labour Government to reverse these changes and give Dartford residents and their elected councillors to have a meaningful say in local planning decisions.

Tonight - our concerns were put to a vote, and Labour voted to support this policy, whilst Conservative Councillors voted against it and the Reform Councillors split, with one their members voting with us, and another voting with Labour.

📲 Scan the QR code in the image to sign our petition, or use the link below:

https://www.dartfordconservatives.org.uk/stop-labours-planning-grab

📢 Please sign and share this post with friends, family and neighbours across Dartford. The more signatures we collect, the stronger our message to Labour, and Jim Dickson.

07/10/2026
Andy Burnham wants to scrap the triple lock.Sign the petition to help us stop him 👇ProtectPensioners.com
30/09/2026

Andy Burnham wants to scrap the triple lock.

Sign the petition to help us stop him 👇

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Local Town Councillors Chris Shippam and Richard Wells attended the packed Oktoberfest event at the Growler Stop in Dart...
26/09/2026

Local Town Councillors Chris Shippam and Richard Wells attended the packed Oktoberfest event at the Growler Stop in Dartford. Brilliant local event with the excellent Prostbusters band.

Our Councillors and Volunteers out on the doors this morning, supporting Cllr Danny Nicklen in Ebbsfleet 🚪
20/09/2026

Our Councillors and Volunteers out on the doors this morning, supporting Cllr Danny Nicklen in Ebbsfleet 🚪

08/09/2026

Proposals to merge smaller councils to form larger authorities have been paused or withdrawn in a number of areas.

🚨 MEDWAY MERGER 'PAUSED' 🚨Statement from Cllr Jeremy Kite 👇🏻"From the very first moment that this self-serving governmen...
07/09/2026

🚨 MEDWAY MERGER 'PAUSED' 🚨

Statement from Cllr Jeremy Kite 👇🏻

"From the very first moment that this self-serving government announced its plans to reorganise local government we called it out for what it was - a hugely expensive waste of time that would rob Britain of just about the only tier of government that actually meant something to local people. It would, and was cynically designed to, hand control to a centralised political class and bigger, more distant government.

The Government forced and bullied councillors every step of the way - setting impossible deadlines and forcing us to choose from the least-worse of a range of bad options or have our silence described as agreement.

Here in Dartford the local Labour Party saw their chance to stitch-up the future of our historic town by splitting the rural communities from the urban ones - a truly despicable proposal that should shame all those who supported it. Our petition made clear just how unpopular it was. We must never forget those who took our town’s history for granted.

And just a few weeks ago, local labour leader Jonathan Hawkes and Dartford’s Labour MP Jim Dickson both celebrated the announcement that the Kent’s existing network of councils were to be abolished and took to social media to declare how wonderful the reorganisation of Local Government would be.

Today, those plans and their credibility are in tatters. The nonsense they spouted just a few weeks ago has now been discredited by their own government and party who have suddenly realised what we all knew from the start - that Local Government Reorganisation was a dead duck that would never work. This hopeless, hapless Tik-Tok government has wasted millions of pounds and paralysed the entire local government community for more than two years. Plenty of Labour activists who loyally toed the party line have been shown to be as foolish and they are unprincipled.

In the weeks since the Government made its rushed and ultimately wrong announcement that Dartford Borough Council was to be abolished, my colleagues and I have been met with a huge outpouring of shock and sadness from local residents who, regardless of their political affiliations, could recognise a good, well run council from a cynical one. Many people have approached me to say how sorry they were that Dartford was to lose an excellent council and hard-working councillors.

I’m enormously grateful to everyone.

Today’s announcement of a “pause” in local government reorganisation must be swiftly followed by the recognition that it is now permanently shelved.

Now, we will carry on with the job of delivering great services, brilliant family events, amazing facilities and the lowest council tax in Kent - without the distraction of Labour’s ridiculous ‘smash and grab’ on our local democracy. They have been humiliated and rightly so.

Thank you to everyone who signed our petition and fought alongside us to show that bad decisions from a bad government CAN be defeated.

Jeremy Kite

Leader of the Council"

31/08/2026

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