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

I completely forgot the RTC meet tonight on Manston etc – just as well if the councillors and civil servant farce of whether there is or isn’t a consultation last year, this year or next year - but happened to wander past and chatted to Richard Styles the Town Clerk. I mentioned him that the report and accounts and latest budgets are still overdue some 4 weeks after requesting them – and some 3 months after them being signed off by RTC. I suspect a bit of shuffling of feet over actual costs, Custom House contracts and civil servant salaries and pensions. Better to delay and hide them from the public. How bizarre a council delaying publishing its own report and accounts for public funds. I mentioned a strange letter form RTC requesting business donations to the Xmas lights “or Ramsgate may go dark”. He looked at me as though I’d suggested killing his first-born that the public and business provide £60M in tax in Thanet – plus national tax – so why would we provide a voluntary tax given ...

A farcical public meeting on Manston and now a farcical consultation-but-not-a-consultation. As usual all the public opposed to whatever nonsense the TDC councillors are suggesting. And now councillors and civil servants scrabbling around to get out of the mess. Just embarrassing. No explanation for over a year’s delay since the first request by Infratil. Stale old men relying on secrecy, pass the buck and petty committee procedure while Infratil do what they like. No explanation for the repeated breaches of the 106. No explanation on how many deaths from the lack of monitoring. Nor the delay on a night flights consultation since last July. Nor why it would be 12 weeks of consultation – you may remember the EUJet farce of a consultation that began when TDC was closed continued after the planes began flying - rather than the specified 26 weeks. Empty burble and flannel now they’ve been found out. A bust airport. Bust as Wiggins. Bust as EUJet. Bust as KCC USA. Bust as BAWC. How many mor...