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

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...