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

Manston: an unmarked 747 from Ostend direction. Yesterday at 2pm. A Sunday. Illegal overflights of the towns as routine. Presumably no Customs or Police inspections. Presumably no radar and onto the drinking water supply. Aren’t they meant to have serial numbers and file flight logs and cargo manifests? What was it? What was on it? Why overflying the towns? Who's in the radar tower? It looks as if TDC have simply given up even trying to regulate Manston: no KIACC, no air or noise monitoring, no flight route details, no fines. Nothing. Simply waiting for the airport to close or crash. Keeping their heads down while Carter and Buchanan and Gale cosy upto to each other on the Parkway something-or-other from public funds.  £10M Parkway – just for the planning stage.  £80M New Road to Manston  £1M EKO million-pound-memo to develop Manston Business park  0% salary fraud – after the failures of Manston etc  ChinaGate Manston mystery development and plans and £25k dual bungs  Missing...

The collapse of the night flights consultation on Manston airport in November means more farce – following on from the 2008 BAWC non-consultation and EUJet in 2005 when the planes were already flying. Perhaps it’s best to take stock of the future of Manston – given at least two of the Infratil Chiefs describe the loss-making venture as unviable. Clearly Infratil and TDC deliberately removing noise and air monitors makes them little more than the IG Farben of the skies. Neither a multinational airport company nor a council could be unaware of the dangers of not just removing them but repeatedly failing to replace them. Nor can Messrs Carter and Gale, working with Infratil rather than jailing them, with the rather absurd glory scheme for another train station in Thanet to somehow serve a derelict airport. How will KCC and the Environment Agency manage the cleanup of Manston after Infratil collapses? There's been no investment beyond the Kent taxpayer propping up 10 years of failure. ...

Very sad to see the earthquake in Christchurch, NZ - hopefully there'll be a fundraiser in Canterbury at some point. It was 112 Day last Friday emphasising one co-ordinated emergency number across the EU. National numbers such as 999 tap into that for the EU – I think the NZ number is 111. But there isn’t a standard non-emergency number: whether it’s a cat up a tree or info on an earthquake. Again specific local numbers would filter into that. Discussions around 101 or 106 have faltered. Surely there should be such a standard info number across the globe – along with text/web. And these should be free from mobiles or phoneboxes which I don’t think they are at the moment. "British nationals concerned about relatives or friends affected by the quake can contact 020 7008 1500."

Cargolux statement: Cargolux, has never received any complaints on breaching flight routes, and be assured that if this had been the case the company would have taken all necessary actions. For your information our 4 weekly flights to Manston operate as follows: Flight CV7172 on Tuesday: Accra-Manston: dep ACC 05.50 Arr MSE: 12.20 Flight CV7194 on Thursday: Nairobi-Manston: dep NBO 03.05 Arr MSE: 08.55 Flight CV7195 on Friday: Nairobi-Manston: dep NBO 05.35 Arr MSE: 12.00 Flight CV7191 on Tuesday: Nairobi-Manston: dep 03.15 Arr MSE: 12.20 Why no complaint from Infratil? For years. Making the airport viable by breaching al the rules. Why no complaint from KCC and TDC? Making the airport viable by endangering the public now and in the future. Why no complaint from our MP’s? Keeping schtum to avoid opening the can of worms on the failures and dangers and utter incompetence. And why are KCC even now working with Infratil to secure £10M public funds for a Parkway station – after SEEDA publi...

2 years on for Leader Carter - some empty bumf on monitoring the problems at Thor etc plops out of the EA. I was told almost exactly 2 years ago the Thor toxic plume had spread beyond the factory – but apparently it hasn’t now. 2 years for a leaflet of bumf and flannel. Thor was banned in 1988 but remained open and expanding for 20 years. Manston removing noise and air monitors and now Paul’s Parkway with the Infratil criminals. Cargolux last week confirming repeated overflights of the towns – with never a complaint from Infratil or TDC. MOD Fire confirming thousands of chemicals for fires lit on the water supply. The EA and Roger Gale talking of problems due to “paint down the sink”. Thanet Earth greenhouses the size of 80 football fields built on farmland. And all the above built on the East Kent drinking water supply. Leukaemia. Strange cancers. Air pollution 400% more than acceptable EU emission levels. When will the NHS be alerted. The Police. Where are the toxin results. Where is...

Let’s forget about Carter in cahoots with Infratil for the moment: removing monitors, airports on the drinking water supply etc. Here’s the latest KCC structure reform. http://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs_and_careers/new_perspectives/director_pay_scales.aspx Personally I think it’s not bad as these things go. But two points: 1. Here’s the salaries - http://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs_and_careers/new_perspectives/director_pay_scales.aspx Aren’t we all in this together: reducing costs etc – and more importantly at least two of these pay grades are over the £150k cap on salaries recommended by George Osborne only last May. And this on top of the new KCC CEO on £200k – one of the top 20 largest council salaries in the UK according to the Sunday Times. And what happens next year with inflation – a further rise? It looks as if the civil servants are simply writing their own salaries willy-nilly and Carter has no control over budgets whatsoever. And putting up council tax to cover these bloat costs. And no ...

Why has Thor remained open since 1987? It should have been banned and closed and cleaned up for the last 20 years. Why was Thor continuing to operate the plant – and expand it – with EA supervision? Why have EA and KCC and TDC simply remained silent ever since? The Chief Constable’s pension needs to be protected to allow him to conduct an investigation into Thor and our civil servants and politicians. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/mercury-poisoning-victims-win-pounds-13m-in-landmark-case-1266578.html “The workers first realised something was seriously wrong when three men were taken into hospital in 1992, suffering from severe mercury poisoning. Peter Cele, 21, died seven months later. Englebert Ngcobo, 55, was in hospital for three years before he slipped into a coma and died. They had all worked at Thor's mercury plant at Cato Ridge in Natal. The operation had been set up by the English parent company using technology and systems of operation which had been developed in Brita...

I wouldn’t send him to House of Fraser. Calls for him to be booted upstairs to remove his parliamentary seat in the reshuffles. I still don’t understand how the Electoral Commission jerrymandered Cliftonville into a boundary change – the 10 year census isn’t until this year. How can they claim the population has changed? Why not? At least his silence would be cheaper. Buit what would he do in the Lords that he hasn’t done in the Commons? An ermine dressing gown would loosen his tongue? Dozing on red benches not green benches would make him more useful? When will this pointless old man explain 30 years watching Margate burn down? When will this pointless old man speak up on Thor mercury – a problem of contamination and remaining open despite being banned in 1988 he claims as “the public pouring paint down the sink”. When will he speak up on the Environment Agency’s dismal performance and lies: paint down the sink, Manston on the drinking water, dumping fuel into Pegwell Bay When will th...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-17419/Now-living-airports-cancer.html Today's Daily Mail on airport cancer. Why the silence from TDC and KCC on cancer? Not one public statement? Why the silence on genetic birth defects? Why the silence on Infratil and TDC removing noise and air monitors - from a school and tower block. Fron an airport slated for expansion. What did you expect from banned overflights, removing monitors and lowlevel kerosene fuel droplets on the population? Silence from the Gang of Four: Latchford, Ezekile, Samuel and White. Cling on as long as possible. Payoffs for silence. Pick up a pension. 0% salary frauds in the meantime. Silence from Carter and King and Kerswell. Silence from Leinster and Ogden at the Environment Agency. Silence from Sandys and Gale - nothing mentioned in Parliament. Nothing mentioned at all. An airport on the East Kent drinking water supply. And Carter and Gale working with Infratil to secure more tax funds for a ludicrous Parkway fo...

Air quality Canterbury - newspaper article: way over emission levels with road traffic and Manston over 4x EU emission levels. The article calls for emission levels across East Kent to be published in the newspapers – where are the journalists? Where are the interviews with councillors and civil servants on emission levels? Where are the Manston and Ostend and Luxembourg flight logs? Where are the inspections of Thor mercury? Is Kent medieval or simply a construction council funding cheap public land sales for roadbuilding, housing estates and shopping malls in the absence of any other ideas? Why is Paul Carter the Leader of KCC supporting Infratil and Charles Buchanan to build a Parkway station in East Kent – with £10 millions of tax-funds? Shouldn’t Carter and Gale as the Parkway’s only supporters rather be recommending Infratil’s Directors be jailed and fined for public health breaches, corporate manslaughter, an aviation blacklist and endangering the Kent public? Shouldn’t this be ...

What has been going on? How much more cancer? Manston airport built on the East Kent drinking water supply. Silence. 10 out of 12 Kent Districts failing – according to KCC’s own figures. Almost no prte-20102 activity and no post-2012 activity: the last Olympic Games in Britain for 100 years. The Stour/Pegwell Bay and Medway 2 of the 3 most polluted rivers in the UK. Richboro's cancer towers collapsing itno the soil and sea as some kind of toxic tourist attraction. Roads to Nowhere with the KCC Property Group of Balfour, Jacobs, Murphy, Land Securities etc. Pfizer collapses – the largest employer in Kent – aside from the public sector. Margate – one of the UK’s most derelict and deserted High Streets. Westwood Cross: a Manchester-style out-of-town-shopping-centre-built-next-to the town centres: barely 30 minutes walk away and a 90% smaller population. Bitumen-bureaucrats agreeing that every problem looks like a motorway or toll bridge or housing estate – but 9,000 empty house...

Pfizer supposedly closing in East Kent with 3,000 jobs lost. There goes the area. Unless they partner with Viiv http://www.viivhealthcare.com/ To help, it seems to me there’s an opportunity to expand – either with Pfizer or others as a joint venture – the existing Viiv portfolio which develops vaccines for HIV etc. 3 of the top 10 HIV drugs are by Viiv and clearly the potential for market growth in Africa and Asia is huge. Pfizer already own much of the portfolio. I had some brief and positive conversations with Pfizer along these lines for my MP campaign: stop the pollution, stop the corruption, stop the construction. Coupled with malaria vaccines and TB vaccines (London was recently described as the TB capital of Europe) there’s more than enough scope to secure the R&D jobs plus develop further manufacturing jobs. To be blunt, some Government contracts via the UNMDG/World Bank or simply the Life Sciences Dept/new Taskforce would secure the jobs and site for the future – and more ...