Jeremy de Rose was brought up in Surrey and is the son of a firefighter.

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He has
lived in Thanet for fifty years.  
He joined British Rail as a guard in 1973 and finished in a managerial position at the
Euston HQ in 1997. He then worked in a rail support company for twenty-five years.
Jeremy was a trustee of the Spitfire Museum at Manston for twelve years, eight as
chairman. He is especially proud of the wonderful Air Days that they organised.
He left the Labour party because of their abandoning of the working class, and their
opposition to the reopening of Manston airport. He joined the Liberal Democrats in
2017, mainly because of their position on Brexit.  
Jeremy wants to see more local control and leadership of council responsibilities. He
am opposed to the unitary authority policy that has been proposed, and feels it is
about being able to control the masses. 
In recent years Jeremy has had some health problems and thus is very aware of the
importance of the NHS and social care. He wants to see Kent to lead in integrated
care and health.
As chair of Thanet Liberal Democrats, he is proud to have nurtured a local party of
local working-class people, from all diverse backgrounds. 
Jeremy is a committee member of the Kent section of the Chartered Institute of
Logistics and Transport, and wants to see a complete overhaul of Thanet’s road
systems and public transport, as with over-development they have been left in
mismanaged chaos.