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

Another year over. Time for reflection and review. Manston and the foolish CPO farce is over. The council has collapsed with councillor walkouts and corruption inquiries. And the farce of Cllr Driver being chased down the street and sued in court – by the council for requesting council documents. Time for Change in 2015. Thanet and East Kent has failed completely. The collapse of the airport, the port, the ferry, Margate town centre, Pleasurama seafront and so on. Utter disaster. Kent has failed: youth unemployment, economic collapse from Pfizer etc – and nothing is planned. Manston was the silver bullet of a one-off project to magically provide all the missing jobs in Thanet. And downmarket ones at that. And it failed spectacularly. And Pfizer the largest USA investment in Europe was lost and 5,000 highly-skilled future jobs. Pathetic governance by the incompetent and incontinent. And of course the cancer from Infratil and Thor that will continue for decades...

Another year over. Time for reflection and review. Manston and the foolish CPO farce is over. The council has collapsed with councillor walkouts and corruption inquiries. And the farce of Cllr Driver being chased down the street and sued in court – by the council for requesting council documents. Time for Change in 2015. Thanet and East Kent has failed completely. Kent has failed: youth unemployment, economic collapse from Pfizer etc – and nothing is planned. Manston was the silver bullet of a one-off project to magically provide all the missing jobs in Thanet. And downmarket ones at that. And it failed spectacularly. And Pfizer the largest USA investment in Europe was lost and 5,000 highly-skilled future jobs. Pathetic governance by the incompetent and incontinent. Time for Change in 2015. 25 policies to reform Broken Kent. 1. End Manston: a $1 water protection order on the aquifer and park. No airport. No business park. No housing. A park. The runway dug up ...

The first manifesto is almost complete: Richboro power station demolished, Gang of Four resigned/jailed, Manston closed etc etc The 2nd manifesto is underway eg votes at 16. Here is the 3rd manifesto: http://www.votegarbutt.co.uk/MP3manifestofinal31oct14.pdf * ASEAN hispeed rail * Cape2Cairo rail/road * GlickQC fraud * Pleasurama corruption * Pavillion House of Bamboo regeneration * Southern Water/Thor contamination * KCC/TDC/Infratil corporate manslaughter Sandys has resigned. Gale will go. So will Carter. And only silence from Farage. No votes for poisoning your own citizens. No votes for corruption. Time for Change www.votegarbutt.co.uk

I really do think the Courts and law are out of control - heading to the American system of suing everybody for everything. But also the last bastion of societal imbalance with over 80% of the c.150 High Court judges from the Eton/Oxbridge circuit and having done little beyond law degrees and then law practice. And a similar imbalance in the rest of the legal industry. No doubt topping up costs with suing people for clearing snow from their driveway and drink-driving loopholes and so on. UK courts are notorious for incompetence and libel tourism too. I'm dealing with a legal case with the GlickQC fraud of fake costs - but a refusal to provide them to the bar regulator etc. Exactly the kind of fraud highlighted in the Clementi Review of failing courts. One of those dismal fraud-but-not-fraud/no-fault cases it seems. And as with TDC the Police shuffling their feet and refusing to get involved or the reports I'm hearing at Kent Police of ongoing reduction crime fig...

As Kent collapses here's my October review of the various public sector organisations performance: 1. Kent Ambulance: excellent 7 minute response from target of 15 minutes and paramedics forward-positioned in the towns for the Dead Pensioners of Winter. No doubt another bumper crop this Winter: 20,000 pensioner excess deaths last year. Excessive private ambulances though. 2. Post Office: rather excellent postal service from postbox to postoffice. The occasional whistling Great British Posty too. Second Class but almost First Class. 3. Kent Fire: developing Road Accidents review and Coastguard merger. More effort needed on smoke alarms. Excessive trouser crease but does disguise the soot. 4. Kent Police: scared to make arrests with Infratil, Glick QC, KCC etc. Some successes on drug dens hauls and people trafficking. Wasteful uniforms and guns policy. CPS and Courts and Undercover Police/Special Branch beyond democratic scrutiny. The latter no doubt wiretapping MP's rat...

Kent Police crumbles. A Force on the run scared to make corruption arrests whether 0% fraud or EKO or Infratil corporate manslaughter or Environment Agency cancer sites at Thor and Sericol and MOD Fire. Kent Council Governance crumbles with elderly council cardigans covering up the mess through inaction and bumf and waste. Yet another Kent hospital in Special Measures. Unable to provide basic hygiene never mind deal with Ebola or TB or the UK's 20,000 dead Winter pensioners. £20M in TDC salaries for one of Britain's worst councils. £2.3BN (that's billion with a b - a Third World GDP budget) for potholes and teacher's salaries and allowing asbestos and tobacco shares and Top Temps fraud. Disastrous regeneration from the collapse of Pfizer one of Western Europe's largest employers to the destruction of Dreamland a top ten UK tourist attraction. RTC reissuing the empty Town Plan again: 3-5 years of inaction. Failed. As Mayor and MP I will ask Greater M...

Kent in freefall. Year Zero. Ground Zero. Third World Thanet. There's really no excuse for it. Sure there's mistakes and mishaps but the collapse of governance and the economy in Kent and East Kent goes beyond that. The corruption and incompetence is rampant and blatant. And Kent Police are simply too scared or too lazy to do anything. So are the CPS. Both established by the public to preserve law and order - and justice. And funded to the tune of over £300M. Plus the costs of the Courts and Prisons. And what do we have? A Police force running scared. Scared to investigate TDC corruption. Scared to investigate the 0% fraud by Macgonigal and Moores. Scared to investigate the Pleasurama tax haven fraud. Scared to investigate banned Thor mercury. Scared to investigate polluting Southern Water. Scared to investigate the Infratil and Gloag missing monitors and fines. Scared to investigate Glick QC and BSB fraud. Scared to investigate the KCC Jimm...

Utter collapse in East Kent after the farce of Manston and Pleasurama corruption and destruction of Dreamland. Utter decay in the rest of Kent with hospitals in Special Measures, sink estate schools riddled with asbestos and dozens of broken towns - with or without Portas. Contamination at Thor mercury covered up - a factory banned in 1988. Broken sewers and shit on the beaches. Time for Change. Time for Carter and Gale to resign. Failed. 30 years of failure. £2B in tax funds every year. Tens of thousands of civil servants. Nothing done. Failed. Failed. Failed. As MP and Mayor I will declare the area broken in need of Emergency Special Measures across all the organisations. We now have Third World Thanet. Enterprise Zones are sticking plasters for decades of rot and stagnation. The same old faces failing and continuing. We need a clearout. Time for demolition of Arlington House. Time for Zero Landfill. Time for Solar. Time for the end of doublehatters and parachute ...

With thanks to Private Eye here's the all-purpose "politician-parachuting-into-seat" statement our rubbish MP candidates Kent may as well use: "I can confirm today that I will be standing in (insert name of seat here) at the 2015 General Election. I have long had an affinity with the good people of (wherever the place is) with its (Wikipedia some facts about it and insert them here). I will strive to be a good local MP concerned with local issues close to voters' hearts such as (find something they're all moaning about in the local paper eg A&E ward closures or bin collections or something). In no way do I see representing (insert place name here) as some sort of stepping stone for greater political ambitions; all I want is the opportunity to represent the people of (make sure you spell the bloody place right) to the best of my abilities and to be a powerful voice in Westminster for their concerns about (insert some guff about jobs and immigrants a...

The Bastard Fitzgerald. Bring Him Back. The Bastard Clarke. Bring Him Back. The Bastard Baker. Bring Him Back. The Bastard Bogoievski. Bring Him Back. Time for Corporate Manslaughter charges for Infratil and TDC and KCC for removing the airport monitors at Manston. No doubt doing the same at their last airport in Wellington. The Kent Bastards are here - no need for extradition. The Bastard Latchford. The Bastard Macgonigal. The Bastard Carter. The Bastard Wild. The Bastard Pearce at the Environment Agency. All silent on the 0% fraud and pollution monitoring. Deliberately polluting Kent's citizens and covering it up. Silent on Thor mercury closed but open. Put 'em on trial. Bring 'em Back. $1 Gloag is here from Stagecoach NZ with Infratil. She can testify on the monitoring under her reign at Manston. It's zero. With Farage standing in Thanet South and in favour of Manston we can hear his grubby views on the Kiwi Killers...

I admire Infratil and Gloag for polluting and poisoning you. Don't you? You must do. You accept it. You pay for it. You certainly will. And your children. And your grandchildren. Cancer and mercury are not just for Xmas. Or this generation. For years they've persuaded KCC and TDC to help them remove the monitors, fake the flight statistics and avoid the pollution fines. And get you to pay for their tax breaks and infrastructure investments. And then when the corporate manslaughter charges tighten, Infratil up sticks and do the same at Rotorua and Wellington airports and dance around the NZ Stock Exchange investigation. And throw Manston to their friend Gloag for $1 and walk away. Maybe sort the costs out behind closed doors. Maybe a tax rebate here and there. A council described as toxic and corrupt by the Local Government Association(!)- a Rotten Borough down there with Tower Hamlets and Birmingham(!)and Scarborough rotten councils. What have the BriNy...

I’ve recently returned from Holland for some tourism work around Liberation Route Europe – an excellent EU initiative to commemorate the end of WW2 from D-Day to Auschwitz. The tourism trails stretch from Portsmouth, and now Kent, through Arnhem and into Germany and Poland. And an interesting story by the good folks at In the Footsteps Battlefield Tours was how a colleague used to chivvy along his troops in Afghanistan with the phrase “Remember Arnhem” when the grumbling became excessive. A battle perhaps remembered more by the Dutch with the John Frost Bridge or Urquhart Airborne Museum and superb Bevridjings Museum with information on not just the astonishing bravery – almost suicide missions – of the Polish airborne troops or USA Waal Crossing – but the Hunger Winter famine after Arnhem narrowly failed. The resolution of Frost’s troops holding Arnhem Bridge with nothing more than rifles against tanks for days and nights alone and waiting surrounded by their dead and dying fri...

Another TDC Council Leader resigns as Clive Hart goes amid the Local Government Association report on a toxic council both dysfunctional and corrupt. Silence on mystery negotiations for a huge housing estate. Secret elections and council meetings and meetings without minutes. McGonigal the CEO and 0% fraudster Cllr Moores cling on for a vote of no confidence. The worst of us. Sandys resigns but Gale MP silent after the debacle of Manston and recruiting Tony Freudmann of Wiggins/EUjet to handle the Gloag sale. Silence from the Toxic Three at KCC of Carter, Wil and King after millions of tax funds down the drain and the missing monitors scandal with Infratil and Buchanan. Southern Water described as having "a persistent record of criminality" by the Court of Appeal. Environment Agency's Andrew Pearce and Hannah Barber refusing EIR pollution reports on Thor mercury. Ask yourself: andrew.pearce@environment-agency.gov.uk The civil servants keeping their head...

KCC and TDC councils in Kent are riddled with corruption. Je Refuse. I refuse to stand for the Ramsgate Mayor election. The same corrupt cronies hoping to linger on through secrecy and fake process. Ramsgate Town Council was established to loosen the dead hand of the TDC councillors: the same ones who oppose it now flood it to reduce opposition. FOI is refused on costs. Town meetings are scheduled together and late in the year and not publicised on the websites to minimise scrutiny. Only residents can vote yet non-residents such as Poole and Fenner are on the council as Party hacks. The corruption at TDC is simply ignored. And nothing has been done. I refuse to stand. I encourage you to cancel your tax direct debit. I encourage you to refuse to attend meetings. I encourage you if you do attend to film and tweet the meetings. I encourage you to boycott votes. I encourage you to call for both open elections and an early by-election for the resigned Sandys se...

Manston is already finished and Gale is not far behind. The farce of last night's Parliamnentary debate by Gale calling for more tax-waste for a junkyard airport. And rejected. The end of Manston and Gale. A NZ Stock Exchange investigation into the missing fines and pollution monitors. Silence at KCC and TDC. Gloag throwing away $1 to be rid of Manston. No planes at all now. And Carter and Gale both gonged off now. Sandys MP has resigned. The Gang of Four has resigned. Gale and Carter will go too. 30 years of failure and no votes for poisoning your own citizens. 90 deaths form air pollution in Thanet: Kent’s worst. What a disgusting farce. Time for a police investigation. Manston will close. The runway will be dug up and the buildings dynamited. A field. With the water supply underneath it. And a future for Thanet: 1. Extradite Infratil Directors: Fitzgerald, Clarke etc: all Infratil airports now sold/closed except Wellington. That will go too. ...

TDC and KCC have failed us. A council of corrupt pensioners scurrying around to hide the removal of the Manston monitors by Infratil and TDC. Simply denying the pollution at Thor mercury and the economic collapse of Kent whether Dreamland or Medway or Dover. The disgrace of Airlines such as Saudicargo or KLM or Cargolux or My Cargo or MK flying in at night with Manston closed and Ostend gunrunners to Africa or banned EU aircraft. The destruction of Kent is complete. There is no Kent economic policy. We have junky towns on the scrapheap while we fund our councils to the tune of £2BN. The town centres taken over by tramps, junkies, Special Brew yobs and stagnant pensioner-councillors. Time for Change. As Mayor I will introduce daily drug den raids to secure our towns and prevent drug abuse and burglary. And a no-shame-no-blame policy for addicts. If you are on illegal drugs now is the time to get off them or onto legal medication. As Mayor I will ensure the drug den ra...

Kent has failed. Deep structural Meiji-style reforms are required. 25% youth unemployment is a disastrous legacy from Kent’s pensioners. Manston airport is yet another failure. And the councils removing the air pollution monitors to poison their own citizens for this vanity project of tarmac. Discovery Park is mired in the mud of building more housing estates. 90% of the Garden of England’s orchards have gone – when food security is ever more important in a Climate Change world. The grinning Deaths-Head of cattle-truck UKIP racists of like Farage and Latchford blaming the Romanians or Bulgarians or Swiss for Britain's problems or borders. And no Climate Change policies at all. The County with the longest coastline in an era of hotter summers and wetter winters will slip beneath the waves. Or at least the rows of empty housing estates built on flood plains will. All policies designed to cut Kent’s own throat. Kamikaze Kent. Yet it doesn’t have to be this way. ...

Time for Meiji reform in the UK too. With less than two years to a general election UK governance has simply ground to a halt. Nothing. HS2 hi-speed rail is not such a bad project - now it’s starting from the North rather than minor improvements to London-Birmingham rail. But 15 years before it’s finished. The economy has barely scraped back to 2008 pre-recession levels and no substantial growth in sight. A few Budget tweaks or blaming Romanians are irrelevant. And we now have the collapse of the national Parties into regional groups: Labour in the North and Tories in the South and SNP in Scotland and Plaid Cymru in Wales. And not one Climate Change policy. The greatest threat to humanity. Nothing. A Georgeville 20,000 housing estate in Kent is as random as Boris Island – especially as nobody in Kent has even been consulted and there are 23,000 empty houses already. So much for voting for Carter or anyone else in Kent. While the collapse of Kent and certainly E...

Stop the Pollution. Stop the Corruption. Stop the Construction. Old Kent and KCC and TDC councils have failed us with numerous corruption and pollution incidents, massive waste and incompetence and white elephant construction projects. Along with broken coastal towns, 20% youth unemployment and pensioners dying of cold - and no Climate Change policies at all. A County for pensioners and thieves stuck in the 1970’s. With a Westminster Village Parliament only concerned with Eton trifles and Party bickering in the worst recession in living memory. In Kent, Sandys has resigned and Gale will go too. Failed. Time for Change Vote Garbutt for Mayor in 2014 and Parliament in 2015: 1. UN Parliament elections for global democracy and reduce tax waste in the UN, EU, IMF, OECD etc: already agreed by the UN but drifting through inertia. Time for UN elections in 2015. 2. Global vote at 16: agreed for Scotland in 2014 and already in Brazil, Austria etc. Time to be made law in 2015....