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

The 66th Cannes Festival closes this week with all the glitz and drama you’d expect. If Kent’s glory days of 2006 haven’t been achieved again with the Jury Prize at Cannes for Andrea Arnold’s Red Road then that’s part of a thin showing overall for the British film industry with no UK films showing at Cannes. Zero. But last week’s review of Kent film locations in the Kent on Sunday highlighted blockbuster shoots such as Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and even Les Miserables to sit alongside home-grown talent such as Orlando Bloom of Canterbury and Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall of Ramsgate. Albeit with most of the locations being either Chatham Dockyard (can there really be that many naval films?) or Knole Park (best-known for the Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever, the first pop video or the Magical Mystery Tour film) holding the end up for Kent’s TV small-screen industry with its heritage of Broadstairs’ Bagpuss and recent productions such as Margate’s Exodus, Gypo and...

Why Kent ignores the Dambuster heroes for their 70th anniversary? The Dambusters Raid still seems incredible with its 70th anniversary today just gone, and yet the shame of its Kent connections going unrecognised. With all of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and, in the lull of the airwar between the Blitz bombings on London and Kent airfields and the V1 and V2 rockets attacks on London and Kent, the Dambuster Raid of Operation Chastise on three dams in the Ruhr in May 1943 marked a quite extraordinary example of courage and innovation. Nowadays a comical Carling Black Label ad or Shepherd Neame’s funny Spitfire ads and the Richard Todd film, now being remade by Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame, are the last few memories of the raid. And the anniversary ignored in East Kent. The Dambuster bouncing bombs were trialled off both the Broadstairs and Reculver coasts – designed to spin across the water, over torpedo nets, strike the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams and sink as dep...

They're dropping like flies. the Gang of Four gone. And now, after the KCC elections Alex King has been demoted from Deputy Leader. So, the Toxic Three are now reduced to Carter and Wild: deliberately polluting Kent’s citizens with Infratil by removing the required monitors and ignoring the overflights by KLM and Cargolux now - and, previously banned aircraft. Alex was previously the architect of the disasters of EUJet and KCCUSA so the chop was long overdue – but a new role of Chair of Policy Skills/HR which to some extent is the Deputy role. The problem with politics as any doublehatter will know – is it’s hard to vote them out even when they’ve failed or are incompetent. A mix of Buggins Turn of any old fool in the role and Dog in a Manger politics of preventing anyone else from doing the job, even if they’re more capable. The rest of the KCC Cabinet is much the same – John Simmonds taking over as Deputy/Finance which is not ideal as he’s a supporter of the ridiculous...

J'accuse Infratil: Fitzgerald removing the required monitors from 2006 and Clarke and Buchanan continuing the lie of reporting pollution. Bring them back with Bogoievski and Baker for trial. J'accuse TDC: assisting Infratil and covering up the lack of reporting and fines: McGonigal, Berry, Button and Sproates. J'accuse the politicians of silence and complicity with Infratil: both MP's Sandys and Gale, the KCC Toxic Three and TDC Gang of Four, the Leaders of TDC and Chairs of the Airport Committees. J'accuse KIACC: feeble control of public reporting on the pollution and Infratil and TDC's antics. J'accuse Environment Agency: failing to enforce the required pollution standards and cleanup ignored by Infratil. J'accuse Kent Police: failure to make the required arrests for endangering the public. Time for Change. Even now the water and air is polluted and there is no monitoring. Even now there are illegal overflights by KLM and Cargolux. J...

Apparently the Mayor can only be elected by being elected by elected councillors. But they can’t elect members of the public. I didn't understand that either. Again Duffers world bumbles along on the rates. So Dave resigned with warm words on inaction. Nothing on Manston monitoring, fines and overflights. Or Thor. Or Pleasurama. Or Port. Then pre-arranged candidates and votes for Kim Gibson as Mayor – previously recommending a prison as an economic step forward for Ramsgate so we shouldn't expect too much. I couldn’t see who was the new Deputy Mayor but very ceremonial for a ceremonial council so irrelevant, and didn’t wait for the farce of the accounts and Manston fines, Pleasurama contracts etc. One for the Police eventually. About 10 members of the public so mainly outnumbered by councillors and civil servants. Unless you're over 60 it's not the council for you. Almost all the councillors doublehatters with TDC, and TDC to blame for everything...

Tomorrow (Wednesday 8th May) the Ramsgate Town Council Mayor election. Time for Change. Dave Green the current Mayor has resigned. Time for Change. The collapse of Ramsgate. Time for Change. Racist UKIP on the rise and return of the Gang of Four. Time for Change. Please turn up and vote for me. Stop the Pollution. Stop the Corruption. Stop the Construction. A Mayor for East Kent, East Europe and East Asia. The pensioners have failed us: Thanet's worst generation. Year Zero. Ground Zero. Time for Change.

Today’s your chance to vote on peripheral issues and faceless candidates. If you do want to waste your vote then choose a non-Conservative candidate to reduce the KCC West Kent One-Party bias. Or not vote and reduce the turnout. Or spoil your ballot. It’s up to you. You can’t vote on Manston and Infratil and the air monitors removed – no candidate mentions it. You can’t vote on the 0% salary fraud of senior civil servants – no candidate mentions it. Nor top Temps staffing up on the rates. Or Icelandic banks tax funds. Or Thor mercury banned but open. Or FOI of all salaries and expenses and staffing. Or EKO. Or the Labour Chinagate bungs. Or Pleasurama BVI corruption. Nothing. So vote. Pretend it’s a democracy. Rather you’re electing Party fanatics to raise their hand when told to do so. Or with the MP’s like Sandys Party fanatics parachuted into a constituency to do as they’re told. The main policy being increasing tax to pay for politicians and civil serva...

KCC elections? Silence on Manston and Pleasurama and 0% salaries. No public meetings. No policies. So much for democracy. Fill in a form. Stay quiet, Hide behind the rosette. Get elected on a minimal turnout. Don't vote. Don't pay your council tax. Pay it short. Pay it late. No tax for no democracy. And Ramsgate Town Council and emergency meeting to sign off the accounts but exclude the public. The same manipulation through bureaucracy-bumf. Don't attend. If nobody supports them they haveno legitimacy. And the Mayor ceremony next week withDave laready resigned. Time for Garbutt4Mayor. Time to stop the pollution, stop the corruption, stop the construction. Your MP's and councillors and civil servants are corrupt and incompetent. Time for Change.