00:00The newest and largest geographical seat in Kent, the Wilde, is largely rural with a patchwork
00:08of farms.
00:10Latest polling has the Conservatives taking the constituency.
00:14But what hurdles will the candidates have to face to take the win on the 4th of July?
00:19I'm here at Hope Farm in Kent with our fantastic parliamentary candidate Katie Lamb, working
00:24together to support...
00:26And look who paid a visit to this very farm earlier this year.
00:30I'm so grateful to Steve for coming down here to meet with our farmers.
00:34And despite the government minister in charge of farming coming here, well, the farmer still
00:40hasn't made up his mind who he'll be voting for.
00:44It's very difficult, I think I'd be fairly disillusioned with the political parties like
00:49a lot of other people would in the country.
00:52I don't know how much support we'd get from either party.
00:59It's very difficult to say and I don't think that they are necessarily coming out and having
01:05their voice made very clear to us at the moment.
01:09They say one of the biggest problems is rural crime.
01:12More than 100 sheep were stolen from this farm two years ago and they say they are constantly
01:17facing theft of agricultural equipment.
01:21They would now like to see greater funding to policing.
01:24It does seem to be increasing because there's no, it seems to be free pickings.
01:30So if you want to go, there'll be a spree, so you'll have one month, somebody have a
01:33quad bike, then it'll be in that area, they go round that area and then they move off
01:38to somewhere else and take them all there.
01:40But I know someone who had a quad bike stolen.
01:43The police never turned up to that stolen quad bike.
01:46But it won't just be farmers flocking to polling stations.
01:50Other locals in the world are concerned about speeding and the state of the roads.
01:54You think about the devolution that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have got and also
01:59where you have Unitarian authorities, that money and power and decision making needs
02:03to be made local.
02:04Now there are more and more houses being built in the local area, do you think that's putting
02:07more pressure on this road here?
02:09Oh without question.
02:10I mean there's a large development going on in Horsham and Den and you know if you live
02:14in Horsham and Den, you're going to need a car, so I think they're building roughly an
02:18additional 300 houses, so you're talking probably 500 extra cars with no extra money
02:25for the roads or road support.
02:28There are more than just hamlets in the world.
02:30There are a number of picturesque towns like Cranbrook.
02:33It's also home to TV auctioneer Raj Bisra, who's a central part of the community here.
02:39Today he's been turning his hand from antiques to looking at what new challenges the first
02:44world MP will face.
02:47My job as the Honorary Mayor is non-political but you know you can't sometimes help but
02:51get involved and people come up to you because they think it's a political post and they
02:55start asking you questions and one of the things that is brought up is, as I've mentioned,
02:59the windmill, the roads, the potholes which are absolutely everywhere and also the policing
03:04which we haven't brought up.
03:05You know I remember years ago when I first came to Cranbrook, we had a local policeman
03:10and we saw him on the streets pretty regularly.
03:13From ageing infrastructure to farming pressures, there are a series of challenges in this seat.
03:18Here's a full list of candidates currently standing for the wield.
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