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

Well actually both Manston and Prestwick airports sold for a quid. Good. The sooner Infratil leave Europe and the airports close the better. The Kiwi Killers have breached every safety regulation repeatedly and seen the closure of all their European airports and now the last UK airports. No doubt the last sites at Wellington and Rotorua will go too. They did it here. They will do it there. Ann Gloag of Stagecoach’s shell company is Infratil scurrying away. Messrs Bogoieveski and Baker have done nothing more than tweak their financials at the last minute as extradition papers and corporate manslaughter charges edge nearer. No doubt Fitzgerald and Clarke will be put in the frame and Buchanan – and rightly so. Removing monitors, faking pollution reports, allowing banned-from-Europe aircraft and illegal flights such as sanction-busting Iran Air or gunrunners such as MK Airlines is horrifying. Frontline Kent in the 21st century with gunrunners, drug smugglers and poll...

A busy few weeks for me around the excellent UK trade mission to Vietnam. I’m also close to opening the first Sincerity offices too. Also interesting meetings on the next Surin Schools. Why Vietnam? 90M people and an incredible culture. And after the China debacle of the UK failing to develop the greatest economic growth ever, now an increasing focus for the UK on ASEAN prior to the AEC launch in 2015 and especially Vietnam with the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations activity this year now concluded, and the preparation underway for the key Vietnam anniversaries in 2015, of April 1975 and September 1945. And unfortunately one of the less positive and almost unknown aspects of the UK policy of the time with Operation Masterdom in 1945 when British troops landed to work with the Japanese troops(!) to pave the way for the reinstatement of the French colonial power despite the Vietnamese declaring independence (even citing the US Declaration of independence). And so began alm...