As the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Dover & Deal, Charlie works hard for us to get our fair share so we can all be better off. Charlie enjoys chatting to people at community days, fighting for our community and going to Deal's new Pier cafe for a good fry up with the kids.
Locally, Charlie lives at his home in Deal. Charlie's father used to live at Bossington, near Aylesham before he passed away. Married with two children, Charlie lived in Sandwich before moving to Deal.
Like Dover's much loved former Conservative MP, the late Peter Rees, Charlie is a tax lawyer. This means he knows a lots about our laws (especially that we should have less of them) and a lot about tax (and he thinks we should have less of those too!). Charlie previously worked in the pharmaceutical research industry and also set up and ran an award winning small business.
A research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and expert on tax and pensions, he is most concerned by the impact of high taxes on families - particularly for the least well off - and how Britain could and should achieve its potential as one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the World.
Most of all, Charlie cares about our community, serving our people and the nation. Charlie says his view of public life is summed up by the words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth." People who forget about the interests of constituents and what is right for the nation very rapidly lose the public trust.
The aim of this website is to tell more about what Charlie is doing, what the Conservatives stand for and to enable residents to have their say and get involved. Please feel free to get in touch with your thoughts and ideas, or if you want Charlie Elphicke to help you out with a problem you have. It's really easy - just email Charlie at charlie@elphicke.com or see contact details here. You can also comment on just about every page on this website - and please do, as what you think really matters.
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Nice to see a prospective Parliamentary candidate who has had a life before politics and has started and run a small business. We desperately need politicians who have experience of both. Good luck at the General Election.
- Donna
FEWER!
- Chris
Seconded! NuLabour is full of apparatchiks who've known nothing else but politics and have never dirtied their hands with running a business. I knew Charlie when he was at Nottingham Uni in the early 90's. He was a real grafter then, and he'd get my vote now - if I lived in Dover, that is.
- DavidG
Yes Chris you are right. It should be 'fewer' laws not 'less' laws. It all depends on whether the item is single or plural. e.g. Charlie's recent photograph shows him to have less hair and fewer hairs. I presume that this means that Charlie shops in Tesco Dover (10 items or less - in spite of my regular complaint to customer services) rather than the more up-market Deal Sainsbury (fewer than 10 items). :-)
- Bob
Gee thanks! Now I really do feel old. Although I do like the Deal Sainsburys I'll have you know, as I can walk to it! :-)
- Charlie Elphicke