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

Malnutrition: cancer, obesity, chlamydia and diabetes off the scale. Food insecurity: overbuild, garden-grabbing and farmland spoiled Poor sanitation: broken sewers, water pumps and sewage dumping Economic dislocation: 2,000 jobs lost at Pfizer, Dreamland a top ten tourism attraction closed for 8 years, no economic policies at all. Corrupt governance: Manston, Pleasurama, 0% civil servant fraud. This blistered kidney we call Kent. Time for Change in Third World Thanet. An outline below on Third World Thanet policies: moving Thanet from Third World collapse in health, water supplies and economic dislocation, to First World growth. Remember, KCC is a $2BN council. Each and every year – and supposedly the largest and best UK council. And TDC is one of 12 Kent councils with $60M per year. Each and every year. And Southern Water, the Environment Agency, Police, Ambulance, Fire, NHS budget billions. For Third World results. With UN International Peace Day today, it’s...

Time for Change. Third World health statistics in Thanet: dying at 60, cancer statistics and social dumping off the scale. Third World water supply: faeces in the water supply and on the beaches, an aquifer under the runway. Third World literacy rates: some of the worst schools in UK, 99% literacy - literate to an 8 year-olds standard. Third World political incompetence: the same double-hatters and parachute candidates, declining turnout and quangocracy again and again, and cover-up of Infratil and Thor. Third World civil service corruption: 0% salary fraud and accounts, EKO waste, vanity projects and removing Infratil monitors. KCC supposedly the best County governance in Britain: bloat and FOI failure and empty housing and Road to Nowhere construction. Time for Third World Thanet to change: policy launch this week. Time to become a Great British district supporting Third World growth and exports. Time for Change.

Last week’s reports that the Arctic icesheet is the lowest-ever is as important as it is horrifying. The last lowest figure was in 2007 (with a decade’s worth of highest ever temperatures), and with the satellite imagery of the last 35 years the reduction in ice at the North Pole can be accurately tracked and recorded. The Summer ice has melted so that within 3-5 years experts predict the North Pole will be open ocean. No ice at all. Presumably just a few soggy polar bears. Already the Northern Sea Route from Tokyo to Europe, across Russia, and the NorthWest Passage across Canada are open to shipping: 34 ships using the former route up from just 4 two years ago. Stormy weather We’re entering a world unknown to humanity where not just this week’s storms such as Hurricane Isaac in Florida and Haiti, or floods in Burma, Laos and Korea become ever more prevalent and deeper – as less ice means warmer seas increasing heat and rising sea levels even further. And, aside from storms, ...