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April 24, 2026

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Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read. Donna and I also want to thank all those residents who have greeted us, and the team, so warmly last weekend, when we finished delivering the main leaflet in our campaign to get Donna re-elected for the Selsey Division of West Sussex County Council on Thursday May 7th, 2026. We have done well with delivering and have notched up plenty of steps, seen some nice gardens and discovered Ali is ‘en vogue’, like an increasing number of people in Selsey, Ali has an outside post box. As we told you last week, she bought it out of  sympathy for our posties, when she first campaigned with us in 2023. I always look back to when Donna and I first met, because we were both involved in a campaign shortly after we began seeing each other, some time before we moved to Selsey. This time round, I've met some really encouraging residents. However, I have to acknowledge my experiences were ‘bested’ by Donna and her son who were shown ro...
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April 17, 2026

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  Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read. Donna and I also want to thank all those residents who have greeted us, and the team, so warmly this week, as we continued campaigning for the Selsey Division of West Sussex County Council on Thursday May 7th, 2026. All has been focusing on the vicinity of East Street and is quite a veteran campaigner now. Apparently her first campaign delivery experience led her to buy an external post box out of sympathy for our posties. I always get a bruise or two from heavier letter boxes whose inner flap is hard to budge but it is great exercise and we always get a warm reception. We have a refreshed respect for our posties, again! Donna and I have gone wherever we are needed. As Independents, we have no big party machine to call upon, so we not only produce all our digital, and paper campaign materials, but also deliver them to residents as well. Donna’s national party opponents are better resourced and able to tap into a r...
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April 10, 2026

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Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read. Donna and I also want to thank all those residents who have greeted us warmly this week as we continued campaigning for the Selsey Division of West Sussex County Council on Thursday May 7th, 2026. To vote for Donna, you must be registered by 20th April 2026. If you have not seen any of us out and about, you should this week because our number will double, including Ali in the vicinity of East Street  and Ian who will be further north. A big thank you to a few residents who are helping deliver, it's never expected, but appreciated more than we can say. If you have been taking an interest in the local elections you may have noticed literature starting to go through doors. You may even have been ‘knocked-up' which in an electoral context means cold-called. As Independents, we have no big party machine to call upon, so we produce all our digital and paper campaign materials and deliver to residents. This is Donna...
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April 3, 2026

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  Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read. Donna and I also want to thank all those residents who have greeted us warmly this week as we began campaigning for her for the Selsey Division of West Sussex County Council on Thursday May 7th, 2026 in earnest. To vote for Donna, you must be registered by 20th April 2026. During the campaign Purdah kicks and there are fewer meetings. Donna and I had a Chichester District Council briefing on Wednesday about where things are now with preparations for Local Government Reorganisation following last week’s government announcement. I had not realised the scale of how much Officers have to do including syncing the data of all the different councils involved securely,  but without causing any disruption to residents.  The Government will run a further (technical) consultation on unitary proposals for Sussex after the local elections. It will consider moving our District into a unitary with Crawley Borough Cou...
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March 27, 2026

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  Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read.  Easter is a week away. Not long after, the campaign for the West Sussex County Council elections on Thursday May 7th, 2026 starts. To vote for Donna, our democratically chosen candidate who is standing for us in the Selsey division, you must be registered by 20th April 2026. The one thing Donna likes about campaigns is seeing other peoples’ gardens because gardening is a passion of hers. A public garden we and our grandsons are particularly fond of has been judged the third best in the UK: - https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/this-west-sussex-public-garden-is-third-best-in-uk-according-to-research-by-outdoor-living-experts-6029462   Today, Friday, Donna had the last Full West Sussex County Council before the local elections. Earlier this week, at Chichester District Council, on Monday our Independent colleague Tim Young had the Environment Panel which considered a report on do...
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