For the final iFAQ of the year, we decided to ask all 55 councillors three simple questions. In the festive spirit, we kept these questions fairly straightforward and on a positive note as we move into a new year.
Readers, a grand total of three councillors replied. As such, we now present those answers in full. They probably aren’t the three you expect either.
It is said that elections are won on the doorstep, and that may well be true. Being armchair activists, it’s difficult to check up on that. Twitter and blogs however are part of our social media present and future, and if the election was decided there, how would each of the wards be looking?
It was Christmas Eve online In the Political Medway An old man said to us, “it should be obvious to anyone” And then he Facebooked a comment A rare moderated view We turned our screens away And day dreamed about the news
Got on a Twitter thread Piled on eighteen to one We’ve got a feeling This year’s for fake news.
So Happy Christmas We love you Medway We can see a better time When all our hashtags come true
They’ve got plans for rooftop bars They’ve got riverside developments of gold But the news goes right through you Despite skewing young, Medway is a place for the old
When you first read our blog On a cold election eve You never promised us internet fame was waiting for we.
Keevil’s sarcastic Jennings’ witty Medway is not a City When the Castle Concerts finished playing They paid out for more Jools Holland was swinging All the drunks they were singing We live tweeted the council Then blogged through the night
The boys of the Medway Cabinet Were singing come what may We will discover what “Brexit means Brexit” means on Brexit day
You’re a liberal You’re a snowflake You’re bearded, woke and eating cake A political bore on a news drip depressed on the floor Called odious or adored Emailed “you’re an ‘overtly political blog” or ignored Happy Christmas your arse We don’t pray at full council when asked
The more diverse Labour opposition group Still being ‘anti-Medway’ And the bells are ringing out For another election day
We have been impartial Well so could anyone You took our blogs from us When you first subscribed here We archived all of them Put your comments with our own Can’t make it all alone We built this project around you
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It is said that elections are won on the doorstep, and that may well be true. Being armchair activists, it’s difficult to check up on that. Twitter and blogs however are part of our social media present and future, and if the election was decided there, how would each of the wards be looking?
Every now and again we get accused of being unfair on Gillingham and Rainham MP and Rainham Central councillor Rehman Chishti. Because we like to shine a light on what he’s up to among his many roles, apparently we are treating him unreasonably. Obviously that’s utter nonsense, but we thought in the spirit of Christmas it would be good to check in with what other local residents think of the esteemed MP. Surely that way we’d be able to build a balanced picture of how he is viewed in the community.
To start, we decided to look close to home, and see what comments had been left about Chishti on our own comments section.
Okay, maybe not the best start there. Surely they won’t all be this negative though.