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A Corrupt Kent Civil Service

An Open Letter to Sue McGonigal of TDC and Andy Mack District Auditor Hi Sue and Andy As the new TDC CE and former Finance Director and Auditor as you know I’m concerned at corruption within Thanet and Kent. I’ve stood as MP and now Mayor on a "stop the pollution, stop the corruption, stop the construction" platform. I’m astonished that you are reporting the TDC accounts are correct. Clearly with now 2 Leaders resigned, political defections and one arrested – plus the senior KCC civil servant AWOL and corporate manslaughter charges and costs enquiries for expenses etc it’s astonishing. Especially with: • the 0% salary fraud and payoffs for failure of your predecessors • TDC civil service staffing, salaries, expenses, pensions, benefits • The stolen disabled grants used for carpeting your offices • the unreleased costs on EKO: what seems to be a million pound meme for KCC and TDC to develop business parks – badly – on the rates • the missing Manston fines: at least #2M • polit...

BBCTV empty property scandal

BBCTV empty property scandal tonight - yet even in supposed pressure cooker South East: 9,000 empty houses in Kent. Not even including property companies landbanks. Why building more? Why building on floodpalians and greenbelt?

TDC and KCC collapses

With support slipping away, the old Gang of Four crew are fading at TDC. The Gang of Four are gone with pay-offs and now Police arrests. And the KCC CEO no doubt being paid off with more shtum money. With Independents holduing the balance of power no doubt there'll be calls to: 1. Establish Margate Town Council - with a reduction in size of TDC 2. Town tax funds paid direct to the Town Councils with sharing of services as necessary 3. FOI publication of TDC and RTC staffing and salaries, EKO, 0% salary fraud, Pleasurama contracts etc 4. Police inquiry into Manston and Thor We seem to have our councillors bumbling along to protect their Party or face-saving given sub-standard council services and pollution and corruption. I doubt any of them have raised the Manston issues with Charles Buchanan or Thor with Andrew Pearce of the Environment Agency. Gale and Sandys simply remain silent after 30 years of failure and 18 months of nothing - mere Party hacks. Our councillors are simply po...