Love Kent, Love Ramsgate manifesto: Summer 2007
Love Kent, Love Ramsgate An Independent Manifesto. Thanet Council - senior officers and councillors - is deeply flawed. As always the staff on the ground are trying their best for what the Audit Commission has rated as one of Britain’s worst District Councils: nearly bottom out of 400 UK Councils. TDC is the Albania of Kent councils. Much of the problem lies with the senior officers and councillors – but also it lies with the fact that the vast majority of Council Tax goes to KCC and quangos: what are they doing to improve decades of neglect? National Politics fails at a Local Level The national political system doesn’t work and certainly not at the Thanet level or indeed at County level with KCC: we have Tweedledum and Tweedledee political parties now. There’s little major difference between Tory, Labour and LibDem: high tax, blizzards of legislation and little real change. Parliament’s Rowntree Report cites that the problem with politics is now the main parties themselves. Seeking St...