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

Contamination Kent: P.8 of Sunday Times article on genetic birth defects in Northfleet - the children's intestines poke through their skin. From contaminated water and atrazine. Shouldn't Leinster and the Environment Agency be overhauled or jailed for this; and Thor and Infratil - an airport on the aquifer and dumping fuel into a SSSI wetland - and all noted by the Environment Agency for years. Looks like delay and denial from civil servants causing corporate manslaughter to me - what do you think? And not one public statement from our MP's and councillors - an airport supposedly the size of Stansted, a mercury factory supposedly closed 20 years ago and a SSSI wetland next to the most Blue Flag beaches in the UK. Shtum payments and regignations to cover up - but not clean up. We've elected and appointed scum and scoundrels to endanger the public on the rates. Time for the Police. Time for Change.

The RTC meeting last Wednesday was much of the same tripe. Only half the 16 councillors turned up. It turned out to be the required 3rd meeting – almost no notice as I don’t think the clerks can work the website – two meetings before the required 4th meeting. So in a year 2 of the 4 public meetings within a fortnight of each other. The 9th May meeting is for the election of the Mayor. Normally this is secret with The Duffers passing it among themselves as some sort of Duffer Ceremony. Which is what it has been. Dave came out with an attempt that somehow the public can’t directly nominate the Town Mayor. Some guff about a – nonexistent - Thanet mayor being legal. Thanet isn’t a town Dave. The public choose the councillors and the mayor. Richard Stiles at one point – after all the councillors kept shtum about FOI – refused to disclose salaries although other costs could be released. Although they weren’t on the website. His salary apparently is much less than 40k. They just don’...

An article on the world's largest solar power plant in India: http://rt.com/news/india-solar-power-park-624/ Look how thin and light the panels are. In Kent every house should have roof solar panels for home use and resale to the Grid - and internal panels to replace water central heating. And warehouse roof solar panels for business - and to power irrigation and desalination. And end gas supplies in 1960's tower blocks. No new build without solar panels. In Kent so far - the sunniest part of Britain? Almost nothing done - except windfarms which only work when it's windy.

The last desperate gasp of failed politiicans: unscheduled meetings, shaping the agenda (bizarrely the required nomination of Mayor is simply ignored) and secret meetings on Pleasurama. The Duffers have failed. If they could have improved things they would have. Pfizer is closing losing thousands of jobs and they stay quiet and do less. Pleasurama-Bungarama: a new regime and the same secret meetings and silence on the 25k Ramsgate Labour bung – the largest ever Party donation. Silence on asbestos in schools and public buildings – from the 1970’s. Secret salaries and pensions – with public funds. In favour of Manston – and now it’s gone bust – and silence on removong monitors and the water supply. Payoffs for the Gang of Four corruption rather than jail. Duplicate double hatters aad triple hatters soaking up public funds to spout the same drivel in duplicate and triplicate. Tomorrow – a public vote of no confidence. I’ll stand as Mayor for 12 months and: 1. Call for a Police enquiry int...

I’ve had a note that there’s a Ramsgate Town Council this Wednesday that’s the annual meeting for the Mayor announcement – yet the website confirms 9th May as the meeting. An utter shambles. More bureaucrats hired – and salaries and pensiosn kept secret and they can't fix the required annual meeting properly. A meeting supposedly held at the Kings Theatre as the new town hall is too small and attempts to sell off Albion House and the town relics. Shambolic. And all for the first year of directly-elected mayors. And of course nothing done. A few Xmas decorations and an event or two. The same old duffers and Party fanatics standing for both Town and District to crowd out the public and just appointing themselves and saying everything’s wonderful. What have they been doing in this Lost Decade? They seem to be the problem - riding the decline down with public money. The Ramsgate Town council website again showing just three sets of meeting minutes in a year and layers of agendas for t...

I’ve received a note from the Environment Agency – yet another appalling Government dept – announcing that as a consultee to the 2010/11 consultation on Infratil pollution at Manston, that Infratil have announced they won’t be following/continuing the cleanup (none seem to have been done anyway) as the airport is up for sale. In effect refusing to follow the pollution regulations, delaying and delaying and now deciding not to bother anyway. Paint down the drain was the EA's staement on water pollution, remember? I quite admire Infratil for leading your councillors and your civil servants on for so long and poisoning your children don’t you? And TDC councillors bumble around wondering if air pollution or an airport on the water supply is a good idea or not. Why should the Environment Agency care? They’re funded by your tax regardless – unless they’re sacked or jailed. They certainly don’t soak up the pollution from an unregulated airport. Why should Infratil care? They’re walking aw...

I spoke at the Nigel Farage meeting in Broadstairs last week on Infratil/Manston airport and Thor mercury. And below a summary of points made to Nigel as MEP for Kent. 1. Manston is on the East Kent drinking water supply – astonishing incompetence and public health danger 2. KCC and TDC public funds for Manston show appalling waste 3. Infratil removing noise and air monitors and faking reports – with KCC and TDC support and knowledge 4. Known gunrunners and banned EU flights into Manston 5. Illegal overflights by Cargolux from Luxembourg/Brussels airport 6. Thor mercury: banned for polluting Margate in 1988 but remains open; subsequently polluting Cato Ridge in South Africa I’d hope you’d be able to act on these points as MEP: 1. A Police enquiry 2. Extradite the Infratil directors for a corporate manslaughter trial 3. Close Manston and protect the water 4. Close Thor xxxxxxxx A fun website for schools for women supported by footballers: 1Goal. In UK women's football is the 3rd lar...