Time for Change: Campaign for an Independent Green Thanet MP and Ramsgate Mayor

The collapse of Manston means they carry the can for failure. A payrise. A new jobtitle. A pension increase. A nod and a wink. But where is the criminal investigation into removing noise and air monitors? Removed from Clarendon school and a tower block. And never replaced. Mobile monitors specified and repeatedly requested by KIACC. But never provided. The only question is did they decide to do it themselves or did the politicians request them to do it and keep quiet. Can they expect a further lavish payoff and pensions from the taxpayer - to keep their silence. Certainly with the council-approved 106 detailing all the health and safety requirements at Manston – but almost none of them implemented for year after year – and no council approval to remove them it looks as though the full responsibility is theirs. And silence on Thor mercury and Richboro - what exactly are the pollution levels? Or will our silent councillors speak up on their behalf? Who did authorise the removal of monito...

A video below on airport pollution and protests in USA. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7392927 Toxic fumes. Lung cancer. All the things you’d expect. Yet there we have a councillor speaking out about the toxic effects: illness, early death and so on: "We'd like to see the jets be banned now. The toxicity from those jets with no buffer zone is literally killing our folks in this area. It is a huge, huge health issue," said L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl. Yet at Manston silence. Clearly an airport produces pollution. That’s why TDC and Manston have produced the 106 operating guidelines: noise monitors, air monitors, mobile monitors for the town centre, flight zones away from the towns, night flight bans and so on. So why have these been removed? Noise monitors removed by TDC and Infratil in 2006. Banned flights eg Antonovs: too dangerous for European airspace Mobile monitors never provide for the town centres. Air monitors sited...

Why are Richard Samuel and Brian White still working for TDC? As importantly why do we have only silence from our councillors, MP’s and civil servants? Messrs White and Samuel along with Roger Latchford were members and leaders of KIACC the organisation representing the public at Manston and deliberately and repeatedly lied over noise and air monitoring. Infratil removed the noise and air monitors as part of TDC and KCC plans to expand the airport from 2006. Both KCC and TDC repeatedly denied plans to expand the airport. And Messrs White and Samuel repeatedly refused to explain the missing monitoring. Even this time last year the Toxic Three were raising the issue of night flights and suddenly finding £80k to “consult” with the public. Public complaints and the fake consultation rolls away to be tried another day. And then Messrs White and Samuel have the gall to give themselves 0% fraudulent payrises. Announcing to the public no payrises but awarding themselves thousands of pounds. De...

A letter today in Your Thanet (P.14) on the water problems at Manston: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=4e1E06Qm3k1N&PBID=84956776-5fe0-4064-a733-83aabf1dd4b7&skip= Dear Editor Something seems to have gone seriously wrong with Thanet’s water supply. Already the aquifer at Manston is topped up with water from East Kent. We have Thanet Earth’s greenhouses-on-farmland now trucking in thousands of litres of water to replenish their “lagoons” of Thanet’s aquifer. The Manston Fire Station is lighting 1,009 fires to put out with Thanet’s water and pouring thousands of litres of chemical foam into the sewers. And Manston airport is built over the underground drinking water reservoir and repeatedly polluting both that and Pegwell Bay. The needs of thousands of residents seem held hostage to a few organisations and many of them funded from public funds. Are our pensioner-politicians asleep or simply happy to pollute both themselves, thei...

Surely Vattenfall the owners of the £780M windfarm, now the world’s largest, just offshore of the Blue Flag beaches of Thanet can help the area. Surely there needs to be a review of the tiny £175,000 planning payment agreed by Brian White at Thanet Council and the need for a 2nd office block and warehouse at the semi-derelict and disused Port. Any competent council would provide a proper funding plan, a 6 month consultation for future expansion including line-of-sight demonstrations, free electricity for every home, a review of wind and wave technology, a solar panel for every home given this is one of the sunniest and not windiest parts of Britain – and the electricity can be recharged back to the National Grid and funding the Maritime Museum. Along with Port air and noise and water monitoring. And why are offices being built in a Port given the empty offices around Thanet and derelict reactor at Richboro? Vattenfall itself claims only c.20 jobs to be provided in future. How much has...

Let's not ask why there is no KIACC the public commitee for Manston any more. Not why Manston would only want to reinstigate it once flights had reached a certain level. Cheaper that way. Vested interests involved then. And no awkward questions on cancer. Until it's too late. Let's not ask why Richard "Tricky Dicky" Samuel quickly resigned as Chair of KIACC at the time of the monitors being removed. Let's not ask why Brian Whitewash and Latchford gave no reasons not to provide monitors - except barefaced lies. And now we have the cull of Infratil's managers: one empty bullshotter after another leaves Manston. Just as Infratil leaves Lubeck Germany and Infratil itself becomes a bus company. So why have our scum civil servants and scoundrel politicians such as the Toxic Three of Latchford, Samuel and White allowed repeated overflights of the towns and onto the water supply? Silence from Gale and Sandys. All in breach of the 106 airport operating guidelines. ...

It does make you wonder how feeble our civil service and Police are. Here we have 2 senior civil servants awarding themselves fake 0% pay rises – if that’s not a fraudulent misuse of public funds I’m not sure what is. And quite deliberate and designed to camouflage the real c.10% payrises from the public and councillors. More importantly we have Infratil specifically regulated with the 106 airport guidelines not to fly over the towns, not to breach operating curfews and not to dump derelict aircraft. Yet all these are repeatedly and blatantly flouted. And not one council vote has been taken to waive these requirements for public health and safety. But you know and I know that our councillors and senior civil servants have with a nod and a wink decided not to enforce the 106. The fools even thought they'd develop a 24 hour cargo airport - and using public funds. Even to the extent of removing the noise monitors that are required. Aside from our scoundrel civil servants what kind of ...

What are you doing about Manston? It's built on the drinking water reservoir and the Toxic Three of White, Samuel and Latchford have delberately allowed repeated breaches of the 106 operating guidelines. Here's a report at Logan airport near Boston: "The planes literally skim the rooftops in Winthrop as they approach Logan Airport. With more than a thousand flights a day, the noise and jet fumes are part of everyday life. George Parisano has seen the planes come and go for 40 years. He's always wondered why so many neighbors get sick. "I really do," Parisano said. "Personally, I have had cancer. My neighbors up and down the street, a lot of them have cancer. " http://wbztv.com/health/Logan.Airport.Cancer.2.767855.html Cancer, Leader Bayford "the closer to the airport the more of it" according to the report. The streets under the flightpath have 4x the EU safe levels of toxic emissions. 4x the limit. But that's no surprise. What did yo...