Cancer Xmas in Corrupt Kent 2015

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 bred in the blood and bone.

Cancer isn't just for Christmas.

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 and buildings demolished. And review of Ostend gunrunning and Lydd run by Charles Buchanan of Manston

2. Time for a clearout of Manston committee: Bayford, Gideon, Nicholson, Campbell etc - and the end of Gale MP's 30 years of failure

3. Thor pollution details and why expanding and no cleanup after 30 years: Kent's Bhopal

4. Carter and the Toxic Three of Wild and King must go: prosecution of Infratil (Fitzgerald etc still running Wellington NZ airport) and Gloag/Stagecoach and Environment Agency and TDC for the missing monitors and fake pollution and fines

5. Time for Magnitsky Award for public sector corruption: MOD Saudi SangCom and Prosecution of Macgonigal as TDC CEO for the same with Latchford and Gang of Four, and 0% salary fraud with Moores etc

6. Boycott of parachute candidates such as Farage: an affront to democracy – and how is George Cunningham a serving civil servant standing when it’s illegal?

7. Every Day A Drug Den Raid – and Police review of incidents and crimes, Most Wanted arrests and drug seizures published

8. End Pleasurama: a public consultation on beachfront park and ice skating rink etc – and a ban on public sector funds to tax haven or secret companies

9. Directly-elected Mayors and KCC Leader - and full routine/automatic monthly FOI

10. End Shipping pollution: ships berthed off Margate

11. Establish Margate Town Council and EK Council with RTC £17M tax and £1BN Kent tax and deprivation allowance and end the Trustees and double-hatters farce

12. New elections for turncoat councillors or resignations- why fund them to jump ship or sit idle?

13. End Cashtill Courts for lawyers: Council review of lawyers and courts self-regulation, set fees, cases, jury trial and closed courts etc

14. Time for votes at 16 and open 2016 UN Secretary-General elections #1for7billion

15. Time for UNMDG2 in every public sector organisation and full FOI not secrecy and delay - and priority Climate Change, Third World and Space reforms.

16. Time for Tobacco store permits and reductions and plain/medical packs

17. Time for Pandemics policy review: TB, SARS, flu etc and vaccine stocks. An utter shambles for the greatest danger facing UK.

18. Time for Discovery Park TB focus, and Demolish Arlington House

19. Time for ban on MP £500 charge and None of The Above – free elections no more with lowest-ever turnouts and party memberships?

20. Time for free wifi and 20% UK and 50% global online – free smartphone

21. Time for OneUKASEAN and Cape2Cairo and NHS Africa

22. Time for 112 global emergency number and 101- required on EU public transport already and used on mobiles

23. Time for Top 200 university for Kent and CCU in top UK 100 and tourism focus at Broadstairs campus with reform of Beckham Studies and bloat

24. Time for zero landfill and cremation within 3 years

25. Time free windfarm electricity and solar panels - and electric car priority parking

The criminals are in the council endangering the public whether it be Thor or Infratil or Southern Water or shipping and air pollution or failure on Climate Change.

They have failed with some of the highest deprivation and cancer levels in UK.

Failed.

Time for Garbutt MP and directly-elected Mayor in May 2015.

Time for Change

www.votegarbutt.co.uk

Twitter: @timg33

3rd manifesto now available to download at www.votegarbutt.co.uk: 1st Manifesto 90% complete and 2nd Manifesto 50% complete

Time for Change in Corrupt Kent 2015

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 and buildings demolished. And review of Ostend gunrunning and Lydd run by Charles Buchanan of Manston

2. Time for a clearout of Manston committee: Bayford, Gideon, Nicholson, Campbell

3. Thor pollution details and why expanding and no cleanup after 30 years: Kent's Bhopal

4. Carter and the Toxic Three of Wild and King must go: prosecution of Infratil (Fitzgerald etc still running Wellington NZ airport) and Gloag/Stagecoach and Environment Agency and TDC for the missing monitors and fake pollution and fines

5. Time for Magnitsky Award for public sector corruption: MOD Saudi SangCom and Prosecution of Macgonigal as TDC CEO for the same with Latchford and Gang of Four, and 0% salary fraud with Moores etc

6. Boycott of parachute candidates such as Farage: an affront to democracy – and how is George Cunningham a serving civil servant standing when it’s illegal?

7. Every Day A Drug Den Raid – and Police review of incidents and crimes, Most Wanted arrests and drug seizures published

8. End Pleasurama: a public consultation on beachfront park and ice skating rink etc – and a ban on public sector funds to tax haven or secret companies

9. Directly-elected Mayors and KCC Leader

10. End Shipping pollution: ships berthed off Margate

11. Establish Margate Town Council and EK Council with RTC £17M tax and £1BN Kent tax and deprivation allowance and end the Trustees and double-hatters farce

12. New elections for turncoat councillors or resignations

13. End Cashtill Courts for lawyers: Council review of lawyers and courts self-regulation, set fees, cases, jury trial and closed courts etc

14. Time for votes at 16 and open 2016 UN elections

15. Time for UNMDG2 in every public sector organisation

16. Time for Tobacco store permits and reductions and plain/medical packs

17. Time for Pandemics policy review: TB, SARS, flu etc and vaccine stocks

18. Time for Discovery Park TB focus

19. Time for ban on MP £500 charge and None of The Above – free elections no more?

20. Time for free wifi and 20% UK and 50% global online – free smartphone

21. Time for OneUKASEAN and Cape2Cairo and NHS Africa

22. Time for 112 global emergency number and 101- required on EU public transport already and used on mobiles

23. Time for Top 200 university for Kent and CCU in top UK 100 and tourism focus

24. Time for zero landfill and cremation within 3 years

25. Time free windfarm electricity and solar panels

Time for Garbutt MP and directly-elected Mayor in May 2015.

Time for Change

www.votegarbutt.co.uk

Twitter: @timg33

3rd manifesto now available to download: 1st Manifesto 90% complete and 2nd Manifesto 50% complete

Garbutt MP: 3rd manifesto launched today

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
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Corrupt Courts. Corrupt Council. Lazy Police.

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 figures by declaring no-crimes. In effect reducing workload, distorting crime figures and privatisation of justice through an unregulated legal system.

We're simply not jailing enough crooked lawyers and barristers and judges and providing far too much control through closed courts and lack of a jury system.

I am horrified at the Cllr Driver gagging Order by TDC over the notorious Pleasurama corruption for Kent's largest seafront development.

As with Leader Carter we seem to have council silence for governance for the construction industry not the public. Retail Parks and Business Parks and Car Parks but not Park Parks.

And again Kent Police shuffling their feet.

Here's my letter to WRose at SharpePritchard the TDC lawyer funded by us:

Hi WRose

I understand you are responsible for the above gagging Order by Judge Warby in The High Court by Thanet District Council? And writing to the local bookshop owner twice for blogging on the Pleasurama corruption issue?

Do you have a copy of the TDC CEO witness statement as I understand the gagging Order was issued solely on that and in a closed court?

Also an FOI copy of your costs to TDC.

It also seems your Order is incorrect in that it cites a gagging of Cllr Driver and The Gazette newspaper - the latter I understand was not gagged?

I also understand Cllr Driver was chased down the High St by council staff on foot and then in a van(!).

I am not aware of any councillor approving the documents as secret and only to be issued in a closed meeting.

I'm standing for Parliament with the Pleasurama corruption and tax haven as a manifesto issue (the BVI tax haven corruption and cliff safety issues around Pleasurama) so am unclear how an elected councillor is unable to discuss the £41M valuation (if it is that) or the local newspaper or politicians or police?

Can you advise as this seems an outrageous abuse by TDC and the High Court: I cannot see how Warby can remain in the role by issuing legal turds such as this. He seems as incompetent as Glick QC.

Yours etc, Tim Garbutt


On the eve of 800 years of Britain's world-leading freedoms with Magna Carta next year, we have crooked and clogged Courts and prisons to overflowing there seems little oversight of what the Courts are doing. Even gagging free speech in the Press.

And could you ever imagine any Councillor being chased down the High Street by council staff for having council documents? Especially with FOI and especially for Pleasurama?

And silence from our sheep-councillors and sheep-MP's.

Disgusting. Disgusting. Disgusting.

Failed.

Time for Change www.votegarbutt.co.uk

Corrupt Kent fails: October Public Sector Review

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 rather than catching drug dealers. Prisons and Most Wanted: too many escapees/not arrested.

5. Education: patchy schools and universities - dismal asbestos policy and truanting. Paying tuition fees on top of tax-salaries. Must try harder.

6. NHS: dirty hospitals and shockingly incompetent Ebola response. Quietly effective GP's and Dentists. Would be lower but for Ambulances: see point 1. Sweden far better under 1's survival and child road deaths and cancer survival. A sickly health service.

7. KCC: idle and wasteful. Most £100k salaries in local government. £2BN budget the GDP of an African nation. Failure of Pfizer, Road to Nowhere, Top Temps fraud and Tobacco shares. TDC corruption/airport monitors coverup. No economic policy at all: a hobby-council for pensioners.

8. TDC: improving. Cancellation of Manston airport and Pleasurama and beginning of Dreamland. Shocking abuse of Cllr Driver chased down streets for supposedly secret documents.

9. Coastguard: shit. RNLI doing all the work - and a charity. Should be merged with Fire to save on pretty uniforms for clerks. Danger of air pollution form shipping and removal of air monitors at Dover Port.

10. Southern Water. Very shit. As usual. Jail.

11. Electricity/Nuclear/TV/Wifi: unknown. Shoddy reception/notspots/Belgian mobile/Dungeness contamination.

12. Quangos/individual depts/Military: unknown. Although which idiot would put an MOD fire training centre on the water supply? And duplicate it with one in Hampshire and the civilian Fire service training centres? Excessive 500 drones and 600 armoured cars new purchases.

Next week a review of Central government depts. Few surprises: DFID best, DECC worst.

You're paying for this lot through 44% of UK GDP on tax(!). What do you think?


Time for Change
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Kent Governance by Corrupt Cardigans

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 Manchester Police to investigate the fraud and failure that Pughley's Fashion Police and Kent CPS are unable to.

A NancyBoys in Blue service on the rates scared to arrest Macgonigal or Glick QC or Fitzgerald.

I will cancel Pleasurama tax haven seafront fraud and consult on start-again.

I will close Manston MOD Fire and demolish Arlington House.

I will dig up the Manston runway and end Parkway cement waste and create Manston Park.

I will cancel all double-hatter and excessive family seats.

I will introduce a 70 year and 3-term age limit.

I will direct TDC and KCC Council tax to the relevant Town Council for approval and reallocation to ensure reform.

With every party working to 44% of GDP in tax there is no impetus for reform in a bloated and corrupt Kent governance.

The cardigans have failed us. A mess of corruption and cretinism and coverup and contamination.

As they sicken and die off the future is reform.

Time for Cleaner, Greener, Cheaper and Younger Kent Governance.

The corrupt cardigans have failed us.

Time for Change

Manifesto #1 completed: see Manifesto #2 and #3:
www.votegarbutt.co.uk

Lazy Kent Police. Scared Kent Police.

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 Jimmy Savile care homes.

Curling up in the Police stations and Headquarters or venturing out to roll a few drunks and tramps.

A nod and a wink to hope it'll be cleared up after months and years.

A CPS and Courts beyond democratic oversight.

And just too lazy to deal with car parking or publishing FOI or even machete crime.

Even the Police Commissioner and driving without insurance now. Never mind the banned Manston planes or Ostend gunrunning or Dungeness leaks.

Scared.

Lazy at best.

Relying on the public to raise and deal with the problems.

Someone else's job.

3,000 police and £300M and the most blatant crimes.

They seem to think that civil servants and councillors and lawyers are above the law.

As Mayor and MP I will insist on:

* daily drug den raids and the haul published
* monthly routine FOI on guns and bullets and tasers and hiding in the backoffice
* CPS, Courts and Crime Commissioner FOI: trials and results. Jail for shoplifters but not civil service fraud?
* Clementi lawyer permits to end light and fraudulent self-regulation
* no Queens Police or Long Service medals without a drugs den tally
* standard uniform procurement for catalogue trousers
* ban the Police Xmas panto on the rates - oh yes I will
* extradite Infratil for corporate manslaughter
* begin Operation Banzai to ban and seize machetes and samurai swords without a permit
* begin the SW and EA investigation and trial
* investigate the KCC paedo care homes
* zero drink driving and road deaths
* effective pandemic policies and TB/Flu vaccine stocks
* begin Costa del Crime exchange programmes with foreign police forces from Mexico to South Africa to Myanmar

Time for Learmonth's Learjet and UK prisoners abroad like Joshua French in Congo Death Row and extraditions/European arrest warrant.

Time for 112 and 101 global emergency response numbers.

We have a Nancyboys in Blue service too scared or too lazy to make arrests.

Time for Pughsley to begin proper policing and kick a few doors in whether drug dens or council offices or barrister chambers.


Time for Change

www.votegarbutt.co.uk

Who Lost Kent?

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 candidates. Time for Infratil extraditions: corporate manslaughter with KCC and TDC. Carter and Gale must go. Time for Change www.votegarbutt.co.uk

Kent's rubbish MP candidates speak...

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 as that usually plays well). Together we shall put(place name don't forget to buy a map) on the map. Thank you."

Funny yet sad isn't it. For the motley collection of candidates we have are:

* Nigel Farage UKIP from Sevenoaks. Perhaps two speeches in the area since the last election and never seen before or since his candidature
* Craig Mackinlay from Chatham. never see in the area until selected last month. Hilarious mention of berthing his yacht in Ramsgate as some sort of affection for the area.
* George Cunnignham Lib Dems - sort of in the catchment area but never heard of. Bizarrely a serving EU civil servant which is illegal ie jiggerypokery over steering the Taiwan visit to Manston as he represents Taiwan in Brussels(!)
* Russ Thingy the other LibDem - again sort of in the catchment area but never heard of. Loses marks for claiming to be an aviation expert without realising Manston was one of many airports with a junkyard licence.
* Will Scobie Labour local but Margate/North Thanet. An astonishing range of political jobs via his councillor father. Silver spoon socialism really.
* Ian Driver, Greens. Fair enough, and worked on animal exports and TDC corruption. But bizarrely supporting Manston airport despite the pollution and corruption.

A mixed bag of party careerists and chancers really. The serious point is the undermining of democracy: the whole point of an MP is to represent their area not to be parachuted in to climb the Party greasy pole.

Why would someone from Chatham or Sevenoaks care about Thanet other than as a paycheque? And given say jobs or grants for an area why would they not prefer their home patch?

No.

A dismal lot of rubbish candidates.

Not one policy between them.

And it's certainly no the fault of the Romanians or the EU. Thanet's problems are Thanet's fault.

We have elected fools and failures.

And as with the TDC doublehatters and triplehatters undermining democracy.

We need a ban on parachute candidates by law and party selection. And the same on doublehatters.

We need full monthly FOI: why are councillors not seeing the report and accounts or the candidates? Even the crooked ones?

Why are expenses etc not published?

Where are the manifestos?

Where is Margate Town Council?

Where is MP recall and Direct Leader elections at KCC?

I will stand as MP and Mayor candidate to deliver these.

We need a Police investigation into Pleasurama and Pavilion corruption and Manston/Infratil monitors and Thor mercury and Southern Water contamination.

Carter and Wilde of the Toxic Three stay silent.

Fitzgerald and Clarke and Pearce and GlickQC and Hollingworth stay silent.

Clive has resigned and Moores and Macgonigal - but they cling on for the paycheque.

Port Everitt and Bint Harrison and Aids Gregory lower Thanet's reputation further.

Farage stays silent as does Sandys and Gale and Latchford.

Pointless granny councillors failing now to even pretend to do something on the councils.

We pay these fools but their loyalty is only cover up for their party and civil servants.

Mere bickering gutter trash.

Yet the contamination continues.

Even hospitals in Special Measures Failure again and no Pandemic policies at all.

Not one public statement.

Silence on the aquifer and dumped jets.

Even the farce of Parkway white elephant funding as Manston is closed.

And the Police are too scared and feeble to do anything beyond rolling a few drunks and shoplifters.

We have our Boys in Blue nancying around on the rates aiding and abetting our corrupt and incompetent elected and unelected public servants and failing on knife crime - even on parking crime.

I say No.

No.

Our towns are broken.

Our governance is broken.

Bring the Infratil Bastards Back.

It's time for a proper Police investigation.

It's time for electoral reform.

Stop the Pollution. Stop the Corruption.Stop the Construction.

Time for Change.

www.votegarbutt.co.uk - Manifesto #1 is almost completed now

Garbutt for MP and Ramsgate Mayor 2015

Infratil. Bring the Bastards Back.

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 instead of Romanians.

Or corrupt lawyers and judges like Glick and Hollingworth at One Essex Court. Feeble lawyers at the NZ Stock Exchange hushing it up.

Bring the Bastards Back.

Perp walk Infratil's corporate criminals: orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.

PM Key will send them back.

Let's see if they can bribe the UK courts.

Bring 'em Back.

Time for Change

Toxic Manston. Toxic Gloag. Toxic Kent.

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 BriNylon Boys been doing on the rates?

I doubt there's been one fine issued or any pollution notices for contamination or dumped jets yet.

Manston's only future is a park and Water Protection Zone for the aquifer.

And KCC and TDC and Environment Agency now dance around the possibility of 700 acres of yet more pointless housing? Why? No reason. Sounds good in the council plan.

But they poisoned and polluted you.

Your councillors are silent. Your MP's are silent. A few resignations here and there and kick it all into the long grass and blame someone else. Silence on Thor.

Late at night you'll remember. The tightening of the chest. A cough.

During the day you'll remember. Cancer drugs too expensive. Queues at the hospital.

Pay your tax. Stay silent. Maybe you won't get cancer.

Gloag and Infratil and KCC and TDC and Environment Agency are to be admired. They're picking up a pay cheque and a pension and a payoff.

Carter. King and Wild. Pierce at EA. Macgonigal. Gloag and Fitzgerald and Clarke and Baker and Bogoievski in NZ.

Even banned from EU aircraft: gunrunners and blood diamonds ushered into UK airspace from Ostend and Luxembourg and Frankfurt-hahn via war-torn Africa.

You have to admire them don't you?

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Next year is the 125th Anniversary of Van Gogh's death - who of course lived and worked in Ramsgate with the letters in a superb British Museum exhibition about 2 years ago. The last part of my 1st manifesto not yet done is to establish the Van Gogh Gallery in Ramsgate with a display of Vincent's paintings and the Ramsgate Vincent Letters all 7 of them.

Impossible though. Can't be done. Certainly not the 15 year farce and £50M cost of the Turner by The Ancient Regime.

Bako Van Man and cars on the Prom are too difficult for Kent Police. They'll never manage Deepcut or Glick or AlYamamah.

Impossible.

The WW1 Centenary is nearing with Ramsgate's role as a Canadian army base and Canadian Red Cross important. The Canucks will be there. First to call first to fall.

The WW1 Centenary is not just a blip this summer but ongoing for the next 4 years 0- already Mons is City of Culture and important with Flanders Tourism.

Little has been done on Japan's role in WW1 as a UK ally in defeating the Germans in the Pacific and supporting UK ships in the Med and Channel with Japanese war graves in Malta.

Time for Meiji reforms: Margate Town council, vote at 16, no double-hatters, corruption clearout of Macgonigal and Moores, term limits and politician exams. Full FOI. The first Kiwis brought back in chains for trial. Fast-forward EU and Asian languages in schools. Cancel EKO expenses-quango and white elephant vanity projects and tarmac splodge like International Airports and New Town and Road to Nowhere.

Council tax strike from TDC to fund RTC and the other towns and depts split and reformed by town. An East Kent Council of Mayors quarterly and emphasising East Kent not Maidstone with the £1.2BN budget for EK and £60M per town so far wasted.

A nation forged in bureaucracy and secrecy and pollution. Government of the people by the bureaucrats for the bureaucrats.

Nothing done for D-Day or Dunkirk by The Ancient Regime. A price paid in blood and the lazy pensioners on our councils can't be bothered.

The contrast with a recent Nghe An development team for Vietnam was astonishing or the DaNang Project and KwaiRail.

And nothing done for Climate Change Kent: more floods, colder winters for pensioners and hotter summers.

Failed.

Nothing on OneGov: point 9.

Nothing on UNMDG2 reform: point 13.

Nothing on Thailand's Yingluck School PC: point 28.

Nothing on the Pav or East Kent Film: point 5/Kent

I admire Infratil and Kent Council don't you? You must do.

Time for Change
www.votegarbutt.co.uk - details of my 2nd manifesto for Meiji reform and Manston $1 Wanted leaflet to download and pass on.

Remember Arnhem. Remember Infratil. Forget Manston.

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 friends.

Frost Bridge now.

The Dutch citizens hiding them and treating the wounded and waiting for a liberation that would eventually be secured almost 6 months later by Canadian troops and the final Rhine crossings.

Remember Arnhem indeed.

Thousands of troops killed and 20,000 Dutch citizens dead from famine – for freedom.
Remember Arnhem and the African-style famines that swept Europe after WW2 when you grumble over 0.7% foreign aid or 0.5% EU funding.

Remember Arnhem with 20,000 British pensioners dying from cold each Winter.

In the 21st century.

That's what the British and Poles and Americans and Dutch and Canadians died for.

What must they have thought they were fighting and dying for as they waited for the final assault in the basements of Oosterbeek as they waited in September 1944?
A price paid in blood in advance.

What must they think of the filthy Kiwis of Infratil and the filthy little airfield like Manston. And filthy little councils like TDC polluting their own citizens on the back of the freedoms fought and won.

Filthy little generals like Latchford.

Filthy little MP’s Like Gale.

Filthy little councillors like the Toxic Three and Moores.

Filthy little civil servants like Macgonigal.

Filthy little Judges like Glick QC.

And filthy little racists like UKIP.

And if you vote tomorrow in the EU elections think of Arnhem and a united Europe.
Of course the EU needs reform.

UKIP are not wrong on that. But Little England has never been the way forward for Britain. Next year Britain will celebrate Waterloo when Europeans joined together and that Kent artist Van Gogh’s 125th Anniversary – particularly relevant for Ramsgate where he lived and worked.

Ridiculous NATO bloated offices or the farcical Brussels-Strasbourg shuffle. The refusal of FOI and undemocratic party lists. The failure to implement the UN Millennium Development Goals. These are the worst of the EU.
But Liberation Route Europe reminds us of Europe at its best.

Especially in Kent, given the silence of Dunkirk Day. The silence of DDay. The silence of Channel Dash Day as the pensioners fail us.

And fail to remember.

Fail to repair the memorials.

Fail to keep the graves clean.

Maybe the excellent War Graves Commission should run TDC or Southern Water or Coastguard.

A Sarajevo Shift to the Balkans, and Serbia, Turkey and Russia joining, is in keeping with the original role of the EU to ensure prosperity and freedom.

The EU was formed to prevent more Arnhems.

To secure liberty and prosperity from Manchester to Moscow.

From Kiev to Kwai.

To resolve international problems such as coal and steel originally, and now Pandemics and Climate Change.

A Green vote in the EU election is a step forward – with reform.

Something better than cattle trucks and contamination.

Forget Manston – and Ostend - and its gunrunners and blood diamonds and filthy little council.

But remember filthy little Infratil.

And remember Arnhem and Liberation Route Europe.

Time for Change.
www.votegarbutt.co.uk

Corruption Kent in Freefall: www.votegarbutt.co.uk

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 down and taking the paycheck.

Only ashes left.

East Kent left an economic wasteland after the Dreamland and Pleasurama and Port and Manston and Discovery Park housing farce.

Ground Zero.

Year Zero.

The shame of a nation.

Details on the new Garbutt MP website: www.votegarbutt.co.uk with PDF downloads of the manifesto.

Almost all my first manifesto now complete except for closure of toxic Thor mercury, toxic MOD Fire station, toxic asbestos in schools, Van Gogh museum and Arlington House demolition.

Cancel Albion House and Beach Resort.

Time for Meiji Kent reforms with Kent University and CCU and language schools.

Time for Pavilion and East Kent Film Office and studio - and Dreamland.

Time for Margate Town Council and East Kent council.

Time for Change

Kent Corruption. Je Refuse. J'Accuse.

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 seat.

We have have thieves and liars simply clinging on for another month's paycheck.

And J'Accuse.

I accuse KCC and TDC of corruption and allowing corruption.

And manslaughter at Manston and Thor.

J'Accuse Roger Gale MP.

J'Accuse Paul Carter, KCC Leader.

J'Accuse Sue McGonigal TDC CEO.

J'Accuse Roger Latchford of the Gang of Four.

J'Accuse Cllr Moores of the 0% fraud.

J'Accuse Berry, Button and Sproates for the Manston pollution and monitors.

J'Accuse Andrew Pearce and Hannah Barber of the Environment Agency for Thor and denying EIR.

J'Accuse Southern Water.

J'Accuse the EKO and ChinaGate and Labour £25k bungs and Pleasurama tax haven frauds by both parties.

We have jailed one Council Leader.

More should follow.

J'Accuse.

And so does the Local Government Association(!) who describe TDC as "toxic", "dysfunctional" and "corrupt".

Central Government rates TDC as one of the UK's worst councils(!) out of over 450.

Why should we fund pensions and another month's paycheck for these scoundrels.

Jail is the place and fines too.

As MP - and Mayor if necessary - I will ensure Meiji reform:

A. Vote at 16: too many pensioners with pensioner policies for yester-year
B. No double-hatters: one seat one person not the same person in multiple seats
C. One family member per party: they're simply voting each other now
D. Direct elections: no cosy party secrecy
E. Full FOI monthly and no secret meetings
F. Politician exams: were' electing people who can't read or write(!) or just family members again
G. 30% turnout: below that the election is void and rerun
H. Party 30%: we should consider limiting the Parties to 30% of seats - national politics has almost no relevance at County and below level other than party bickering

The Drug Den raids will continue every day. I urge junkies to register with the pharmacy/NHS/Police - there will be fewer illegal drugs and dealers and more expensive. No-blame-no-shame and no access problems if registered.

Junky Town in Rape Nation is over. Dole-by-Sea is over. Dumping-ground East Kent is over.

The clamp down on ASBO vehicles on the prom/parks, tramps in the town centre and too-noisy pubs/shops will begin.

Manston has closed.

The Gang of Four have been sacked and jailed.

Pleasurama tax haven fraud is over.

EKO and Chinagate is over.

Richboro Power Station has been blown up.

The reforms must continue:

* Reopen Dreamland
* Demolish Arlington House 1960's tower block
* Close and cleanup Thor mercury and asbestos schools
* Expand TB focus for Discovery Park
* Expand Universities and EU and Asian languages/culture: 2plus1Kent
* End Roads to Nowhere and Tarmac Housing estates
* End KCC Tobacco investments
* End SS Richard Montgomery and ships
* Begin Waterloo 2015 and Wellington's Ramsgate HQ renewal
* Begin Liberation Route Europe
* Celebrate Ramsgate Dunkirk and D-Day
* Celebrate Margate Spanish Armada
* Celebrate WW1 and Canada-Ramsgate

Kent is corrupt and failed.

They have failed us all.

The Ancient Regime is over.

Je Refuse. J'Accuse. Time for Meiji reform.

Time for Change.

The end of Manston. The end of Gale.

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.
2. Close and cleanup Thor mercury – banned in 1988 but still open
3. Create UN parliament and global vote at 16: the latter already for Scotland and Brazil, Austria etc. Britain falls behind.
4. Demolish Arlington House 1960’s tower block and reopen Dreamland
5. Create Margate Town Council with East Kent Council of Mayors
6. UNMDG2 reform: include Tobacco, Road Accidents, One Space Programme – and before 2020 not 2030
7. UN Women London office opened and 40% women minimum equality law
8. Protect Pegwell Bay with Canterbury UNESCO sites
9. Open Pavilion (not Wetherspoons) and East Kent Film Office and Studio
10. Foot passenger ferry for Ramsgate Port with no HGV’s

The Local Government Association report describes our councillors as “toxic” and “bullying” and “incompetent”. 0% fraud by the civil servants too. £60M in tax for one of Britain’s worst councils – rated by the Government itself!

Still no automatic FOI of council costs. No details of EKO or Chinagate.

Time for Garbutt for Mayor next week and MP in 2015 – with an early by-election and tax boycott if the council-fraudsters won’t quit.

The pensioners have failed us.

The doublehatters are corrupt and incompetent.

This nation’s shame.

Manston is finished so is Gale and the Ancient Regime.

Time for Change

Failed Kent. Garbutt for Mayor 2014. Time for Drug Dens Raids.

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 raids and arrests increase.

Go to your doctor, chemist, hospital, police or a friend. Ask for help now: it is no-blame-no shame and the the drug dens will be closed.

Drug dens will be identified and closed and the drugs network rolled back.

No more Junky Towns in Rape Nation in Failed Kent.

Frontline Kent faces 85% of illegal drugs seized on the Continent. And rogue airports like Ostend leaking like a sieve in dealing in arms, blood diamonds and drugs to African war-zones.

And pandemic zones like Ebola in Guinea or TB in Romania or London.

All Kent drug dens raids and arrests and drug seizures will be publicised. The drugs will be torched, and the money and cars and jewellery returned or placed in a community fund.

Kent's coastal towns will reverse the seachange of failure in drugs. With benchmark policing with Switzerland and Holland and Japan.

A crackdown on crack dens. A smack down on smack dens. No heroin, cocaine or crack in Kent.

No dealing or growing of marijuana or skunk or hash.

Time for Change.

A 24/7 arrest warrant from the Courts for drug den raids: a Judge will get out of bed and sign the raid warrant. No more drugs dens or drugs stashes.

No junk Judge's like Glick and his Bar cronies and liar-lawyers.

Drug dog searches in suspected drug dens in tower blocks, barns and warehouses and ships and ports.

Police raids on illegal flights and late flights at Kent's airports and shipping in ports or illegally berthed off Margate.

Drugs dealers cautioned and Special Branch surveillance.

International criminals abroad on the Costa Del Crime and Asia will be targeted: no hiding place and no drugs routes.

A crackdown on crack dens. A smackdown on smack dens. No heroin, cocaine or crack in Kent.

Time for Change

As Mayor every day I will be asking of Kent Police how many drug dens raids and how many arrests and how many drugs seized. And asking of the NHS Ambulance paramedic teams how many registered junkies and drugs use. And paramedic pub kits.

Day after day. How many drugs raids. Day after day. How many drugs arrests.

No white powder and no horse in The White Horse County.

Invicta on drugs in Kent.

The waiting is over.

The pensioners have failed us.

The Toxic Three of Carter, Gale and Wild have failed us.

Gale and Sandys have failed us.

Garbutt for Mayor in May 2014.

Time for Meiji Kent.

Time for Change.

From Kamikaze Kent to Kaizen Kent

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.

Discovery Park can focus on science jobs and a TB focus. We’re already seeing TB mutate from animals such as cattle and cats and dogs to humans.

In the Third World 1M people die every year from TB. Why? Not enough vaccines. It’s completely preventable. IT just needs some research and production of the vaccine. Discovery Park and the Rotary folks did that before with polio.

And good jobs. High-end research jobs. Production jobs. Shipping jobs through the ports of Ramsgate and Dover. Clean jobs. Jobs for Kent Youth. Low Climate Change impact.
Tourism jobs with conferences and delegations to East Kent.

And spin-off production with Sittingbourne Science Park. Flu vaccine. No more dead pensioners stacked up in the morgue each Winter. More than in Sweden. 20,000 wrinkly lives cut short.

Tetanus and other antibiotic research not done.

Cancer drugs in remission.

And Kaizen Kent.

Foolishly Britain banned learning a foreign language in school.

How silly in the Global Age - and for Kent when we live next to Europe.

That policy has been reversed though.

But the EU recommends at least two foreign languages to be learnt.

That’s what they’re studying in Germany and Italy and Spain – and speaking better English than you or me.

And where are the Asian languages?

Half the world’s population. The focus of UK economic growth in the 21st century.

Just 3,000 British students studying Chinese.

Even worse: just 300 studying Japanese.

The world’s largest economies and we struggle to speak to them.

Thai speakers? 60M people: the same population as UK? 2 University graduates each year. Vietnam? 90M people? I don’t think there’s any.

Myanmar? 60M people emerging into democracy? The prospect of hispeed rail from London to Long Thanh at last. Zero again.

Indonesia? 250M people? Maybe a dozen. You tell me.

Cambodia? 15M people? Have a guess. Not even a phrase book.

Korean? Different types of Chinese? Go whistle.

And dozens of UK radio and TV channels? Not one on language learning. Whither the Open University and BBC and Sky?

Time for Kaizen Kent with Meiji reforms and learning 2 European languages – and one Asian language.

Giving Kent’s young people the best chance of work in the 21st century.

Jobs as teachers. Jobs as website programmers. Mobile phones and wifi installers. As film and television programme-makers. Translators. Even jobs building schools or cleaning out asbestos.

Kent’s 400 schools should be able to choose the languages of the future – Japan certainly provides enough effort and incentive to learn their language and culture with books, games, conferences, films, courses etc. The UK’s Teacher of the Year teaches Japanese.

Britain should sit at Japan’s knee and learn – and Kaizen Kent with every Kent school and University offering an Asian language rather than Beckham Studies nonsense.

Hispeed rail 1 as a benchmark for HS2, and Hitachi Ashford (and a new UK depot in Newcastle and London) and Fujifilm Broadstairs and in Kent we are not maximising opportunities in Asia.

With 2015 and the end of WW2 only months away. And so little done so far for WW1 Centenary.

And Kent’s 4 Universities should provide Asian language and translation courses, East Asia and South East Asia Studies programmes. Half the world and we know nothing.
Kent has the language schools already. Time for growth not stagnation.

And in Asia time for British English to be the focus of growth.

Kaizen Kent not Kamikaze Kent.

I urge every Kent headmaster and teacher and pupil to explore the possibilities of 2 EU languages and 1 Asian language.

It’s your future.

Time for Meiji Kent. Time for Kaizen Kent. Time for Change.

The pensioners at KCC and TDC and RTC councils have failed us. Just dog-in-a-manger politics clinging on for another month for a paycheck and their pension despite the failure.

Skulking around appointing each other to non-jobs and ceremonial guff rather than democratic elections.

I am Ramsgate’s Mayor-in-Waiting.

I am the future.

The pensioners have failed us.

They are the past.

You know that.

They know that.

Time for a list of councillors to resign. Sandys has done so and Gale will too.

Time for a Police investigation into Manston and Infratil.

Time to reverse the failure of Kamikaze Kent spiralling down into oblivion.

Time for Meiji Kent reforms. Time for Kaizen Kent and Asian languages.

Time for Change.

Time for Meiji reform in stagnant Kent

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 East Kent is almost total. Decades of failure at Chatham Dockyard. Bloated quangos refusing FOI. Geriatric governance riding the decline down. Or tarmacking everything in sight.

And rampant corruption and civil service fraud at Manston, Thor, Pleasurama and EKO.

Such blatant and ongoing corruption as if the councillors and civil servants and MP’s are revelling in stealing and lying and failing us.

And perhaps worst of all over 20% youth unemployment.

Here’s various rather excellent award-winning videos by a mate of mine, Phil at Bedlam TV, on the importance of Apprenticeships and NEETs: http://www.bedlamtv.com/
A difficult subject to do well - and a measure of how seriously the 14-19 agenda and apprenticeships are being taken and driven forward in other parts of the UK – Doncaster in this instance.

And, to show how serious this Wasted Generation problem is, at a recent conference I met a Taiwan delegate who mentioned their concerns and work over, wait for it, 6% youth unemployment.

6%.

6% in Taiwan.

We need Meiji reform.

Japan has shown how substantial and deep and organised reform can turn around societies and economies. And worth remembering they did it not just once 100 years ago - but then again in the nuclear ashes of their country.

The blazing growth of ASEAN and China is notable by how far Britain has fallen behind investors such as Germany and USA.

(Before I forget here’s a link to the first Surin School in Thailand – can you help build more? www.surinschoolcharity.org)

And in Thailand - in a policy of sparkling genius – the Yingluck government are providing every schoolchild with a tablet PC. We wouldn’t dare do that in Britain. We couldn’t. Imagine the committees. The procurement workshops. The form-filling. The delay and dithering.

In Thailand and China they are turning the whole rail network into hispeed rail. All of it.

Cambodia has one of the world’s most modern telecoms and free wifi networks.

Australia has overhauled its Asian language learning: 20,000 students learning Japanese. UK? 300. And only 3,000 learning Chinese in UK.

Does that mean everything in Asia is better than Britain. Of course not that’s silly. But there is much we can learn.

Half the world is simply invisible to us. And George Osborne has rightly overhauled Chinese visas that prevented half the world’s tourists visiting us.

Time for Meiji reform not rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

Hi-Speed rail. Hi-tech industry. Government and Business and Academia working together.

It was called Great Britain for a reason. It’s not now. And it won’t be in future.

A future your children and grandchildren will live in.

We need Meiji reform.

Deep and substantial and sustaineed reform to reverse the stagnation and rot of decades and a Lost Generation.

If you’d like a copy of my manifesto please email me: timgarbutt@yahoo.com
Many of the points are in the blog posts below.

Kent has failed.

Time for Meiji reform.

Time for Change.

Corrupt and Failed Kent. Time for Change in 2014 and 2015.

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.

3. Time for the vote in Brunei and Dubai/UAE and for women in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan – why is UK funding and arming Brunei and Dubai when they do not allow the vote? Time for arms and funding sanctions from 2015.

4. Time to end the death penalty in ASEAN: leaving only China, Texas, Florida Pakistan and Iran killing their own citizens. Ban death drugs exports from UK and EU.

5. Time for arms exports ban from UK and EU. Let grubby regimes like Dubai buy their guns elsewhere. Time for an arms industry restricted to UK and EU needs not speculating in death.

6. Time for Disarmament: develop zero-deployed nuclear weapons and navy restrictions: nuclear weapons cannot be used and only UK, France and USA and Russia now deploy them - and navies have little purpose with drone attacks.

7. Time for Gender equality law: minimum of 40% women as Board Directors and Parliament as Norway. UK has less than 10% women Board directors and 20% women in parliament.

8. Time for a Nuclear –free Kent: close and decontaminate Dungeness and Chatham and ban nuclear waste, and ships with nuclear weapons. Close all nuclear power stations in UK and EU for solar power. Radiation has no place in 21st century Kent or UK.

9. Interest rate cap of 10% on all loans and credit cards – as in Germany. Ban payday loans of no more than 0.5% per month and through banks – with a free bank account. Develop youth start-up funds with low costs. Ban speculative food investments as Barclays. Time to repair a broken bank system and get UK working.

10. Create OneGov: free email and mobile tel no and bank account at birth to reduce Government costs and ease of epidemic warnings etc.

11. Abolish the last hereditary Lords: Parliament failure to make meaningful reform.

12. Compulsory routine monthly FOI for all public organisations: civil service continuing to hide its failure and bloat 7 years after the FOI law and 40 years after USA. A disgrace. And waste such as UNDP royalty-bureaucracy or the UN Office of the Paperless Office or IMF and World Bank duplication.

13. Create County Health and Education Commissioners elections similar to the Police Commissioner: greater and earlier scrutiny and responsibility of school and hospital failures.

14. Judge quotas: no more than 20% of High Court judges from Eton and Oxbridge: currently over 90%. Massive failure of social mobility and freedoms.

15. Police Commissioner to cover Courts as well as Police: lawyer and barrister fraud and High Court closed courts to end.

16. Publish Government Department league tables and County league tables of public spending etc: massive MOD and CAA and Environment Agency bloat and failure. Time for Special Measures programmes within 6 months.

17. UNMDG2 reform: include in every public sector organisation – and seek inclusion of Tobacco, Road Accidents, Space Programme and achieve before 2020 not 2030. Too slow.

18. Typhoon Haiyan aid reforms: too slow aid for typhoons in the Pacific and India and famine in Africa for 70% of incidents and casualties. Never again.

19. Tobin Disaster Fund: establish central fund with UN Parliament/World Bank for ease of response to disasters rather than waiting for fundraising.

20. Establish Desertec: solar power in the desert already part-funded by Germany.

21. Police reform: scrutiny of private detectives, bailiffs, undercover policing and Special Branch secret police, and FOI on guns and bullets and MOD liaison/procurement, and Missing persons, Most Wanted and UK prisoners/stranded abroad.

22. Prison reform: meat-free Monday and vegetarian-only meals for prison cells and military – as with Norway’s army. Also schools and hospitals: reduce costs and Climate Change meat. And reoffending reduction progamme: year-long prison release supervision.

23. Achieve chemical weapons ban/disposal with Egypt, Angola and Sudan – no chemical weapons and ban on napalm and phosphorous as war crimes.

24. Create integrated military as Canada to prevent inter-service waste and squabbling.

25. Ban asbestos in schools and public buildings and detail all asbestos, Thor mercury sites and pollution suites in UK and EU. Environment Agency failure.

26. CAA failure: late flights and illegal/banned flights detailed weekly and airlines/airports closed.

27. Electoral reform: ban State funding for parties, elections null and void and rerun with less than 30% of the electorate, FOI and Manifestos 6 months before elections, and civil service and politician exams.

28. Bury all electric pylons before 2020.

29. Create Recession Plan for indicators and public spending against next recession. Shorter and shallower recessions with government activity.

30. Electricity and water free daily ration – reduce dead pensioners in Winter and Summer to less than Sweden – and free when over 50% renewables. We have deaths by charging for tax progammes funded by previous generations.

31. Epidemic programmes: quarterly public sector drills, FOI on biohazard equipment etc and weekly updates of TB etc and school curriculum and vaccination details.

32. Free Tablet PC and Mobile for every school child and pensioner – as in Thailand.

33. Right to Zero Pollution law – as Vietnam and link to Corporate Manslaughter Law. No more lessons learned and public officials fudge and lies for public deaths and injuries.

34. Public inquiry into Deepcut Barracks and LIBOR and Saudi arms deals eg National Guard and GPT/Eads and BAE etc.

35. Green High Court specialism for trials of pollution etc.

Time for Kent:

1. Create Margate Town Council and link to East Kent Council of Mayors to reduce costs and increase scrutiny.

2. Reduce KCC and TDC councillors to 9 per town and end double-hatters and more than one family member per party.

3. Extradite Infratil Directors for trial over Manston corporate manslaughter and pollution: Bogoievski, Baker, Fitzgerald and Clarke and Buchanan and Pedro in the control tower.

4. Close and cleanup Thor mercury and Police inquiry into banned factory from 1988 still open and polluting: Environment Agency and HSE failure.

5. DFID Broken Society Office in Ramsgate for Third World and emphasis on Discovery Park for TB research/manufacturing.

6. East Kent Economic Development annual report and direct Westminster funding for clarity and end Maidstone waste, and GDP, GNP and GDH comparisons.

7. Establish East Kent-West Europe programmes with Belgium, Holland and France and increase/improve twin towns activity eg with Africa etc.

8. Provide a foot passenger ferry for Ramsgate Port: ultra-green and non-HGV with Ostend, Dunkirk and Boulogne.

9. Establish East Kent Film Studio and Office in Ramsgate, and link with Dreamland and Paramount theme park.

10. Ensure sewers and water supply fit for purpose and zero landfill, cremation or waste export.

11. Fund food banks and detail DSS/Housing benefit restrictions and create OneGov.

12. Ban ships off Margate and provide flood/tsunami warning system and repair cliffs and flood defences.

13. Seek City of Culture after Hull 2017.

14. East Kent-East Asia focus for sustainable and Climate Change growth.

15. Publish embedded water and Climate Change product info and ban Total, Union Carbide and tobacco, arms, booze and non-Kent KCC investments. Establish Civil Service ban list: no public sector jobs for civil servant failure.

The pensioners have failed us.

KCC and TDC have failed us.

The main political parties have failed us.

Our councillors and civil servants are mere criminals hiding behind the rosette and bureaucracy whitewash.

The 1970’s are over.

Sandys has resigned and Gale will go too after 30 years of failure and Third World deprivation levels in Kent.

Failed.

Time for Young Kent.
Time for 21st Century Kent.
Time for Climate Change Kent.

A cleaner, greener and younger Kent.

Time for Change

For office and volunteers and fundraisers and info please email: timgarbutt@yahoo.com and a copy of this leaflet and a poster to put in your window or email/photocopy and pass to a friend.

Garbutt for Mayor in 2014 and MP in 2015.

Time for Change.