Medway Council are just too arrogant to listen to sound and informed advice.

I quote from The City of Rochester Society Annual Report  2009/2010 :- "Discussions with the Council on the question of city status continued throughout the year. Considerable attention is now focused on major events planned for 2012, with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the hosting of the Olympics, and the 200th Anniversary of Charles Dicken's birth which all give cause for celebration. We understand that the Council is entering into competition with other towns to make a further bid for city status. The simplest way forward would be for the Council to agree to a change of name to 'Rochester upon Medway' when the application for city status is renewed. It is felt by the society that this would have a far greater chance of success. Medway Council can still continue to promote the area as 'Medway'. The city of Kingston upon Hull, which is usually referred to as Hull is a good example. This has been explained to the Council in a succinct document, prepared by the society. In the absence of our Press Officer, our Secretary was called upon to make an appearance recently on BBC Breakfast TV to give the Society's views on city status."

The council are obviously too ignorant and incompetent to take this sound advice - another wheelbarrow-full of our money will be wasted on their stupid and futile bid to have a river named a city! Idiots.