THE Conservative party have gained every seat across Kent on election night, wiping labour off of the political map.
In Canterbury, the Conservative party retained power as Julian Brazier received 22,050 votes. But, this did not stop Anne Belsey of Canterbury feeling optimistic about her plans. Mrs Belsey created a party, named Money Reform Party, and told a packed theatre on Thursday, “We could sort out our economic problems in a week including paying off the entire national debt which has taken 300 years to build up.” It seemed unlikely before the elections that Mrs Belsey would ever get a chance to put her plans into action, as Julian Brazier came out top on all online polls, and she received just 173 votes as the results came through.
But, even with Mr Brazier heading all of the polls in Canterbury, it did not stop an unidentified man shouting “the whole election was set up from the beginning” as he began to read his winning speech. The man was later escorted from Westgate Hall in Canterbury by security guards. Julian Brazier brushed off these claims and continued to congratulate is opposition on a “good clean fight.”
After winning the vote, Mr Brazier set out his priorities for the coming year saying, “we need jobs here for young people, we have got to tackle anti-social behaviour and social breakdown.” This pleased many residents of the Canterbury area, as anti-social behaviour rates have risen in previous years. Student, Amber Macintosh said: “I am glad that he has set his priorities to anti-social behaviour, this has been a large problem in Canterbury within the last year and I feared that it would only get worse unless it was tackled head on. I do think Julian Brazier will be the one to do that, he is most in touch with Canterbury as he has been our MP for so long.”
Liberal Democrat candidate Guy Voizey came second with 16,002 votes and told Westgate Hall “we have done really well and established ourselves as the clear alternative to the Conservatives. That bodes really well for next year’s local elections.”
As the country gets prepared for a hung parliament, the Conservatives have come out victorious throughout the whole of Kent, leaving many people uncertain for the future of the country as a whole. Laura Howard, 23, said: “We have all got to hope now that the politicians make the right decisions and take the country out of the rut that we are currently in. We can only hope they will.”
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