This document below focused on what would happen for Kent and on the 4th July the Kent arrangement changed from the 17 MPs that were previously 2 Labour and 15 Conservatives and now there are only 5 Conservatives for Sevenoaks, Herne Bay & Sandwich, Tonbridge & Malling, Maidstone & Malling, Faversham & Mid Kent. There is now one Liberal Democrats on Tunbridge Wells and amazingly there are now the other 11 settings are Labour MPs! Here is my previous correspond.

This item was initially set out on 1st June, but subsequently there have been a number of changes on the Wikipedia publication so this item has been changed most recently on 6th June.

Over the last couple of days I have written about Sussex where I live for how the voting could impact for our location on 4th July for the next General Election. On Thursday I wrote a session entitled Several Sussex MPs are leaving on 4th July 2024 which reflected on the information from Wikipedia and the text is available here. Then yesterday on Friday I put on a session entitled Very radical significant political votes for Sussex that calls for us to amend how to enable the position for Sussex to include a current Green MP, two new Liberal Democrat MPs and five Labour MPs for Sussex which can be seen here. That is very different from the current position of one Green, two Labours and the other 13 MPs are Conservative. Since that I have reviewed the situation in Kent which currently has 15 Conservatives and two Labour MPs on Canterbury and Dover. So I have spent time on the Wikipedia and it is clear that differently from the Sussex support of one Green and two recent Liberal Democrat MPs as well as some of the other Labour settings in Sussex. However the situation for Kent is more listed.

The current position in Kent involves several Conservative positions which have never been elsewhere and the Wikipedia indicates that the current MPs are taking part in July for the vote. There are six locations which are Faversham and Mid Kent, Ashford, Gillingham and Rainham, Sevenoaks, Rochester and Strood and Tunbridge Wells.

There are two locations which were Conservative controlled which have changed their names and some of the measurements. These are Maidstone and Malling that was previously Maidstone and the Weald and there is Herne Bay and Sandwich which was North Thanet.

Then there are two locations that need the Wikipedia details to emerge with them. There is the Folkestone and Hythe location that has clients for this year but so far there is no Conservative member and the other is Tonbridge and Malling which has so far not listed the membership for this year and there is no indication if it is being changed elsewhere.

The Canterbury situation which has the Labour MP is involving Rosie Duffield and she is taking place on July so she needs to be supported. The other current Labour MP is on Dover which has Natalie Elphicke but she is not remaining this year so let us hope that Mike Tapp will be effective.

The other five settings in Kent have all had some very significant Labour MPs in the past and they are providing some possible options. There is only one that is listed with the existing MP who is taking part in the voting arrangement which is the Gravesham location. There are is the Dartford that is waiting for Wikipedia to clarify who will be the Conservative client. Then there is the Thanet East which was previously the South Thanet and the Wikipedia does lift the Labour and Green people but there is no Conservative client. The other three have been defined for the Conservative and Labour proposals and all of these three locations have new people so the voting could be different. These are Chatham and Aylesford and also Sittingbourne and Sheppey.

Of course these arrangements do not provide any significant prospects for Green or Liberal Democrat to be considered in Kent. It would clearly be very good if solutions could be achieved for these two groups because many people in Kent do appreciate Green and Liberal Democrats. Perhaps we need to find a different approach for the future.