Cllr Amelia Randall

Kent County Councillor for Birchington & Rural. Party founder and Leader for Better Way Of

[Cllr Amelia Randall @BetterWayOf]

I am stepping out of the shouting match. 📢❌
Everywhere you look, modern politics is trapped in a loud, media driven loop. Parties on the left and the right are feeding on public exhaustion and keep turning frustration into a reactionary shouting match. But headlines don't drive efficiency, and anger doesn't build communities.

True leadership doesn't feed on chaos because it looks at how to resolve it. As an active County Councillor, I believe we need emotionally stable, highly analytical, and empathetic leaders focused entirely on a more grounded progress. That is exactly why our party is called Better Way Of.

We are building a movement focused on a better way of living, thriving, and progressing for real people and it's beginning right here in South East Kent.

What’s next for our campaign? This July we are launching our physical South East Kent Plan. I will be out on your local high streets, meeting with independent business owners, and asking you directly what practical support you need to thrive. This October I will be bringing community leaders, and local business brains, together for our main Better Way Of Party Conference. We won't be chasing the media circus. We will be executing real change on the ground and creating efficient ways forward. Let's build something efficient together. 🗳️✨👇 Check the thread/comments below to read my full analysis on the psychology of the modern political arena.#LivingThrivingProgressing #SouthEastKent #QualityOfLife #BetterWayOf #UKPolitics

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@Keir_Starmer @eucopresident We don't want to be in the heart if Europe, we want you to respect our choice to leave and to work on more efficient contracts and deals that don't compromise our position.

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Your council tax is leaking out of Kent. 🚨 Official figures show KCC blew £28.2 Million on temporary agency staff last year because they can't recruit properly. Full breakdown in a previous post. #Kent #KCC #Taxpayers #LocalGovernment

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@narindertweets Online doesn't have to be dangerous. Parents should parent their children and the government should stop getting too involved

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@DailyMail It reminds me of how Labour have always wanted a world where there's 1 government. How people talk about a universal payment. Let's hope we don't become a world where everyone receives a set amount of money, everything we do is tracked, and we are just pawns

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You continue to roll out all of this tech to everyday life, people literally get replaced by AI systems, yet you ban children from social media! YouTube is actually quite educational. They have channels such as survival which can teach a child a lot. I think rather than a ban,you just needed a new way to monitor things.

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@PolitlcsUK Wow. I wouldn't see the need to ban them from YouTube. I think it should just be about tighter monitoring

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@Swithin641 @Neccccy Valid point, but he could make that look better than being replaced while in office. Or at least he would attempt to

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We have literally built a complaints culture!

The cold reality of this, will be higher taxes and probably a cut to services.

I'm not saying a pay rise is not deserved, but if it was me, I'd rather money went into the services we provide to make the job a bit easier. A recruitment drive so that there's enough staff. I'd care more about supplying the demand as more and more people have to wait to be helped.

Across the country, greed is destroying everything along with no strategic long term efficient goals.

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Really. While authorities waste time, money, and resources policing speech and arresting people, local infrastructure is collapsing right under our noses. Look at Kent County Council—they just let £28 MILLION of our tax money drain into temporary agency middlemen last year alone because they can't manage recruitment properly. We are paying higher taxes for worse local services while the system focuses on all the wrong things. Just posted the official FOI data breakdown on my feed if anyone wants to see where the cash is actually going." And if it's happening in Kent it's likely happening elsewhere

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Exactly. While authorities waste time, money, and resources policing speech and arresting people, local infrastructure is collapsing right under our noses. Look at Kent County Council—they just let £28 MILLION of our tax money drain into temporary agency middlemen last year alone because they can't manage recruitment properly. We are paying higher taxes for worse local services while the system focuses on all the wrong things. Just posted the official FOI data breakdown on my feed if anyone wants to see where the cash is actually going."

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This is ridiculous. Whether they like him or not he is not a threat to our country and is not a terrorist. This is a waste of time and money. How can you clamp down on people like this, yet let people with no documentation stroll through our neighbourhoods? Or let people you know are a threat and being watched, continue to live here?

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The official FOI Data is out and KCC used £28.2mill on agency staff last year!
#kent #Results #taxpayers #recruitment

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Official Freedom of Information (FOI) figures just released reveal Kent County Council spent a staggering £28,254,585.84 on temporary agency staff over the last financial year.
A Journalist obtained the data, which shows that while overall agency costs have dipped slightly, the burden on local taxpayers remains extortionate.

Here is where the money went:
🔹 Children, Young People & Education: £16,742,711.39
🔹 Adult Social Care & Health: £4,894,607.82
🔹 Deputy Chief Executive’s Dept: £3,516,841.44
🔹 Chief Executive’s Dept: £2,059,262.87
🔹 Growth, Environment & Transport: £1,041,162.32

With councils under intense financial pressure, a total pause on recruitment needs to be on the table.
What do you think of these figures? Let me know below. 👇
#Kent #KentCountyCouncil #KCC #Taxpayers #LocalGovernment

[Cllr Amelia Randall @BetterWayOf]

@Telegraph Ridiculous! We have young people needing work, we have other services and areas needing the money that they are saying they will pay business to take on such workers.

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This is unacceptable. We have plenty of people wanting to get a job, but are unable to. Why not pay this money to business who take on our 19 to 21 year olds. They deserve the opportunity to do well. Labour need to rethink where their priorities lay.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Rachel Reeves will reimburse British firms £5,000 per foreign worker in a bid to make the country more attractive despite the UK’s growing youth unemployment crisis

🖇️ https://t.co/J0uxGTrnyr

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Yesterday's video explored what I believe is one of the most overlooked problems in modern politics.

Many people are exhausted. Financially. Emotionally. Mentally.

When we're under that kind of pressure, we naturally gravitate towards those who appear to understand our frustrations. We feel heard. We feel validated. We feel that finally, someone gets it.

That's human nature.

But being understood and having your problems solved are not the same thing.

Too much of modern politics is built on emotional validation. Politicians mirror people's anger, fears and frustrations back to them, creating a powerful emotional connection. For a moment, it feels like progress.

But after the speech, the headline, the social media post or the viral video, what has actually changed?

The Better Way Of believes people deserve more than emotional validation.

They deserve leadership.

Leadership that listens carefully, thinks strategically, plans effectively and focuses relentlessly on improving quality of life.

Over the weekend, I published two in-depth articles exploring these ideas further. Because if we want better outcomes, we need a better way of doing politics.

A better way of living.
A better way of thriving.
A better way forward.

#britishpolitics #PoliticalUpdate #psychology

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We must pull away from the Reactionary Emotional Political Loop #british #politics #psychological

[Cllr Amelia Randall @BetterWayOf]

Today I have written to District Councillor Helen Whitehead to raise concerns regarding the continued approval of housing developments whilst significant questions remain around infrastructure capacity, particularly water resilience.

Recent supply issues across Kent have left many residents asking whether infrastructure is able to keep up with demand.

I recognise the need for housing, but I also believe we have a duty to ensure that essential services such as water, healthcare, transport and education can adequately support both existing and future residents. I want to better peoples quality of life and we can't do this if our infrastructure can't keep up with demand.

I look forward to receiving Councillor Whitehead's response and to engaging in a constructive discussion on how we can best balance growth with the infrastructure our communities depend upon.

#kent #infrastructure #SupplyDemand #BetterQualityOfLife

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@DuncanBannatyne A complete insult to women. Are we not valued anymore? Being a woman is about more than makeup and clothes.