I’ve lived in Thanet most of my life and am recently retired from working for Porchlight, where I supported people with their mental health and wellbeing.

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I now volunteer with the Good Neighbours Service, helping isolated elderly people and also volunteer at Cliftonville Foodbank (I am also a trustee) where I help vulnerable people with a wide range of problems. In the past I have been a Birchington parish councillor and stood as a Green candidate in Westbrook.

I am passionate about protecting our natural environment, I would campaign to stop the many insensitive housing developments which are taking up valuable agricultural land and countryside in and around Thanet.

I would also work to:

Improve local bus services and bring them back into public control

Improve road safety through measures such as 20mph zones, where supported by the community

Stop the medieval practice by Southern Water of dumping sewage in our seas

Improve care services for those in need

Support local schools and restore investment in youth services

Promote an economy which prioritises social value and environmental regeneration in place of destructive economic growth

Protect and maintain our libraries, parks and green spaces