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

Obviously your vote is for you to choose who to vote for. But people ask me who we should vote for or avoid. Here’s my views: 1. The first point is don’t vote or register to vote and spoil your ballot. Don’t fall into the assumption that you have to vote for the main parties. By refusing to vote you are in effect doing NOTA: None of the Above. This means the parties will, when faced with falling turnouts, have to come up with better policies. All of a sudden for example despite publishing their manifesto Labour suddenly announce rent controls just 10 days before an election – desperately casting around for popular policies. The Tories like Farage simply do these weird activist closed meetings for photoshoots and slogans. 2. It’s even worse in South Thanet with the nonentities we have from the main parties: laughable that both Mackinlay a Chatham councillor or Scobie the Younger the Margate Mayor say they are local to Ramsgate and Thanet South. And somewhat fraudulent suddenly...

Thanks to the many wellwishers but I refuse to stand as MP or Mayor in this election. My blog post below on the illegal Cunningham nomination and Press Complaint to the Gazette on my manifesto provide details. But interesting and pleasing to see the District candidates list of those who have stood down: Harrison, Nicholson, Moores, Hart and of course CEO Macgonigal after the shocking corruption and fraud and incompetence at TDC. But where are the Police for say the 0% fraud or are civil servants above the law or it most be covered up to preserve the reputation oft he council we vote for and fund? Which of our new councillors and MP's will be calling for a Police investigation of the Ancient Regime? The last scoundrels are Everitt, Bayford, Campbell and Latchford and Heale (bizarrely the last 2 already KCC councillors but desperate to be District doublehatters and stifle debate). Vote for anyone but them. Bizarrely you can't actually vote for Ramsgate Town Council...

We have another corrupted election here in Kent. And I refuse to stand to condone this shambles of an election. A couple of points as to why: 1. The absolutely blatant rewriting of my manifesto by the Gazette is detailed below. A newspaper criticising a manifesto is one thing but rewriting it is quite another. How can you vote for me if you don’t know what my manifesto says – or if it’s rewritten to say something else? 2. I received only today the final day for nomination papers(!) a reply from Madeline Homer the Returning Officer and Glenn Back from my letter last week requesting the actual nomination papers(!). Plenty of background verbiage was sent but not the actual papers nor are they online for anyone to read and download and mail or email. Shambolic. 3. I have had no reply for the Returning Officer as yet on the George Cunningham/LibDems issue of a banned civil servant standing for election. An illegal farce. 4. I see no reason to pay £500 for the privilege of condo...

Dear Editor I wanted to write to complain in the strongest terms about your feeble General Election and nonexistent Town Council/District coverage for South Thanet and North Thanet. As you know I am standing as an Independent Green to “Stop the Pollution. Stop the Corruption. Stop the Construction.” as South Thanet MP and Ramsgate directly elected Mayor. I supplied – at your request – a 100 word summary of details of my manifesto eg close Manston, Police investigation into the removal of Manston monitors by Infratil and TDC and KCC, Thor mercury contamination etc etc. These are also detailed in full at my website www.votegarbutt.co.uk and Twitter @timg33 and campaign leaflets – all of which I have provided to you. I was horrified to then see in last week’s Gazette your bizarre bowdlerised version of my manifesto rewritten as: “Key Pledge: seeking to launch investigations into various incidents of what he sees as corruption on the isle by representatives of the local author...