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

The No Night Flights meeting last night and good public consultation has been taken out of the council’s hands. Being "against night flights" but “for the airport” means it stays open – with cancer and noise and night flight attempts every year. For night flights means cancer and noise all night. Infratil and TDC have hardly done anything but lie and fly for years. And stale pensioners remembering when the RAF polluted them on the rates. And: 1. It’s on the drinking water supply – our councillors hemmed and hawed over when they knew and what they’ve done and shuffled their feet 2. The noise and air monitors were removed by Infratil with KCC and TDC back in September 2006 – so there has been no monitoring. Just Infratil and TDC pretending that they have been monitoring and endangering the public. That’s corporate manslaughter. By Infratil and by TDC and KCC. What councils would hem and haw over expanding an airport by removing monitors – and refusing to close it when it’s on t...

An article in The Times on 7th Novemebr detailing how "Regional numbers don't add up say airlines". In brief it details regional traffic figures form airports around the Uk and how they're utter nonsense eg Humberside claiming to grow to 12M passengers: 12x the population of the region. The head of Virgin Atlantic(!) described the figures as "utterly ridiculous". Clearly with Manston, claims of an airport the size of Stansted are nonsense: equivalent to the whole population of Kent and London flying 2 or 3 times a year. The real issue is why Infratil are using these figures to gain public funds. Why councillors believe them. And why KCC are peddling construction-nonsense such as Manston Parkway. To remove the monitors to downgrade the cancer cost - especially at an airport slated for expansion - is of course a crime. As is the EA and TDC failing to protect the aquifer. With the Gang of Four facing arrest warrants - as will Infratil and KCC - the question is ...

With Sandy Ezekiel arrested on suspicion of fraud and misuse of public office the Gang of Four has collapsed. Latchford sacked, and Samuel and White resigned with 0% fraud and payoffs. All that remains is recovering the 0% salary fraud and missing £2M Manston fines and publishing the EKO and ChinaGate costs. The Labour £25k donation has been detailed but nothing else. Silence from the TDC civil servants entrusted with monitoring and silence from the Environment Agency – I don’t understand why they aren’t being cautioned and questioned. Or were they specifically instructed not to carry out monitoring? And silence from Buchanan no doubt awaiting the arrest warrant and extradition orders for the New Zealand Directors. And silence on Manston pollution and Thor mercury. With the last of the Gang of Four arrested for fraud and misuse of public office, surely a full Police inquiry into Manston, ChinaGate, EKO, 0% salary fraud, Pleasurama and Thor is long overdue. Several of the Infratil direc...

Quite astonishing: IranAir flying into a ramshackle airport like Manston. Or Europe as it seems to be banned. Certainly from the USA. The US rates it as the terrorist airline of choice - an Iranian equivalent of what the Libyans did at Lockerbie or the recent Yemeni cargo bomb flights. http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/iranair-airbus-ircg-treasury/2011/06/24/id/401304 For Charles Buchanan formerly of City Airport in London to allow this and flights such as EgyptAir taking off from Cairo knowing Manston was closed or the banned Afghan flight is incredible. But that's why he'll go to jail. And airport safety has never been paramount at Manston. Removing noise and air monitors and deliberatelty lying about it. Year after year. And the CAA and Border Agency are as flimsy as the Environment Agency. The drumbeat for strikes on Iranian nuclear sites grows louder: two scientists shot, a missile factory blown up etc etc. With SAM missiles deployed for the 2012 Olympics in London - as ...

A sudden Royal visit by the Queen to Margate after 20 years and 30 years before that. Which is good. Although so sudden almost no-one has heard of it. Clearly the problems in East Kent are substantial and a visit to the Turner is a good start after the collapse of the political system and civil service. And with the Commonwealth being revitalised with new succession rules and membership on non-colonies, the monarchy is doing more than just being a useful tourism feature. Especially with derelict Dreamland on view - and the oil tankers off the beaches failed by the Coastguard - and supposedly another year's delay for the CPO. But it's the wrong town and the wrong time for the Queen. Let's hope next year is Royal Ramsgate and its Royal Harbour in the 60 year Royal Jubilee. Less positively the front page of Yahoo the world's most-read website and animal abuse in Ramsgate: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-caught-on-cctv-in-shocking-swinging-cat-attack.html The video clip is cle...

Same old nonsense from Bayford and his cancer crew: another farcical consultation. And deliberately ignoring the facts and dangers of night flights and Manston and Infratil and KCC and TDC’s actions. Let’s forget the claims of jobs: they’re ludicrous. An airport the size of Stansted -a few minutes from Heathrow and Ostend. Planning by clowns Let’s forget the rationale for night flights: a few flights around the existing hours make no sense – except as the thin end of the wedge. Planestation and Infratil wanted all-night flights: about 30 or so. Let’s forget that the airport is already bust: Infratil say so – and the only scheduled flights are 2 or 3 Flybe hops to Belfast from Belgium and 2 or 3 Cargolux flights from Luxembourg. The airport is already bust. But when are we going to talk about the air and noise monitors being removed? Samuel and White have been sacked but the councillors all knew about it. They were removed back in 2006. When are we going to talk about the missing fines ...