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

Manston/Parkway station: even worse than I thought. The elaborate consultation for a station in an airport has concluded this month. The 200 pages of plans thus detail: o This supposedly isn’t a consultation but details of a project KCC has decided to implement despite lack of any support at all beyond the corridors and cement mixers of County Hall o An improvement of 6 minutes in train times between London and Kent – but these would be achieved by 2019 - and were planned even without a Parkway o The Parkway if built would delay times by 2 minutes. I know. You couldn’t make it up. It would delay trains o The Parkway would cost £11M – not far off the cost of the Turner Gallery in Margate for what would be a small unmanned station in the middle of nowhere but too near the other rail stations o The supposed 6 minute time improvement would be for travel to London – but only 23% of the public use the train for London – the 77% of journeys are 30 minutes or less to Canterbury etc, ...

How ridiculous that every political party, and the council with its own port, opposes live animal exports. It's even in the UKIP national manifesto to supposedly bolster Farage before his defeat. Yet the exports will continue today. To paraphrase the Boston Tea Party we seem to have taxation without - effective - representation. With the exporters simply swapping between Ramsgate and Dover port, we will need a more organized approach to prevent this disgusting trade. Whether its roadblocks, layered teams of demonstrators, tax strikes and other forms of civil disobedience. Nobody wants live animal exports. And not from any Kent port. It's disgusting and simply dragging Kent down. A county now famous for racists and animal cruelty. And even more ridiculous given the Calais delays/roadblocks due to French farmers protesting the low price of meat etc, and police being pulled away from Operation Stack and road accidents or rape trials or drug den raids, just so a j...

Manston explodes into incompetence and rants yet again. Roger Latchford of Kent UKIP and Gang of Four’s vote at KCC full council rejected by 70 votes to 12 amidst a litany of cries of incompetence and waste of money. With the District election defeats, Latchford and NFHeale are finished. But only silence on Manston and Thor contamination at KCC and TDC. What’s happening? While TDC UKIP dance around Chris “Orson” Wells supporting wasting yet more money on some evaluation of something or other - and a plague of bizarre emergency meetings that last a few minutes with no debate at all. TDC UKIP have the golden opportunity to not just cancel Manston airport but the foolishness of the $1 thousands of houses on the aquifer and seek Infratil’s extradition and fines for contamination under the TDC of Latchford. The MP’s now scurry around blaming TDC for inaction despite it being their main/only policy. It stinks. And the ever more bizarre LocalCraigMP now suddenly supporting fr...

A bumper crop of cancer tumours this year. Melanomas the size of melons. Polyps like plums, and the lemony flush of leukaemia. Why you may ask given, for example, Manston has closed? Almost everyone bar our MP’s and civil servants know the dire consequences of breathing aviation fuel. Of course they do know how dangerous it is really - hence removing the monitors as Manston was due to expand with Infratil. No monitors, no pollution data and maybe those cysts are due to pixie dust not aviation fuel. They just wanted to cover it up. Even now. Kent's Bhopal is not an exaggeration given Thor was supposed to be banned. Or perhaps more accurately that's Kent's Cato Ridge. But cancers don’t just end because aviation fuel droplets end. That’s just the start of it. They flourish and bloom through children and the elderly in particular. Rare cancers. Incurable cancers. Bred in the blood and bone. And all the more so as Manston may have closed resulting in cleaner ai...