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

Clearly Wells' UKIP have nothing to offer some 5 months into his reign over Manston and now the breakaway groups. Credit to Gale and LocalCraigMP in managing to foist the blame for a Manston CPO U-turn onto Wells and ignoring their very clear election promises to reopen Manston. It was interesting at the UKIP conference in Doncaster that Farage highlighted all the UKIP achievements of the last 3 years but made no mention of TDC as the only UKIP-controlled council. And interesting that RTC meetings have reverted to 11am weekdays as hobby-pensioner events for very thin agendas. We're paying £110k in salaries to simply have empty meetings? Nothing done. And the danger with that is the civil servants also slip into stagnation or worse. You may be aware of 100SE Rd the Daniel Gent mega-construction of 15 flats stuck onto a 5 bed house repeatedly refused then approved. But now only silence from TDC. It's either a cockup or brown envelopes yet the Wells regime would...

With Volkswagen fiddling the air pollution data on their engines, what exactly is the difference with that and Infratil and KCC/TDC removing the noise and air monitors from Manston airport when it was due to expand? The main difference seems to be Infratil's Board and Kent Police and TDC/KCC covering up the pollution damage. At least VW have apologized, are investigating and have set aside billions of dollars for fines. With 500k deaths from air pollution in EU and at least 30k in UK, KCC and TDC have deliberately worked with Infratil (and Gloag) to avoid fines and endanger the public at Manston for years. And of course to fiddle the UK's overall emissions data. No wonder for example UK's newborn mortality rate is double that of Sweden: c.2k extra infant deaths. And Kent's mortality rate is one of the worst in UK. Apart from the Chief's pension, why have Kent Police not made arrests of say Infratil's Fitzgerald and Clark and Buchanan, and Berry, Butt...

Private Eye's Rotten Borough page today (page 18) reports on Wells and UKIP as: "all gone a bit Pete Tong" after just 4 months. And Wells gearing up with heeldragging for a Uturn on Manston. The capable Ed Targett in Margate says the same thing - and highlights the potential for the film industry in East Kent. Good news too that Edwina Crowley of Pleasuram and Dreamland at TDC has resigned - the clearout is almost complete. And Farage's bizarre comments also in Private Eye that the EU is responsible for destroying East Kent's harbours despite the millions received in EU subsidies(!). Unfortunately UKIP seem cut from the same cloth as the previous pensioners in Labour/Tory that mismanaged the area. Another vote of no confidence and even Recall seem relevant. 5 more years? There's been 4 months of nothing. And there's not much more left to destroy. Time for Change www.votegarbutt.co.uk @timg33 Tim's Titbits: (Interestingly Private Eye...

For Conservatives, Carter's regime is looking a lot like Blue Communists with Big Government bloat and ever-expanding salaries and pensions. Often for failure. I wouldn't expect Kent Conservatives or even Kent Labour to be radicals. But the symbiosis of the main parties blurring together, and frankly the stagnation of Kent Tories, always in power in Kent, almost automatically has resulted in a too-cosy Blue Communism of failing to curb the excesses of the public sector. The politicians and civil servants simply become Tweedledum and Tweedledee for vanity projects competing to waste the most tax. Perhaps the Corbyn election or even Miliband previously as leftwing shows how mundane the parties are. I don't agree with say nationalizing the railways but it hardly makes him Lenin. I couldn't tell you anything about the other 3 Labour candidates or their policies. Nothing. And even less about Kent Labour. Hence the ridiculous Parkway or absurd £500M Stack plans or ...

Paul Carter Leader at KCC fails us: * KCC worst libraries in UK: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/kents-libraries-are-the-countrys-42339/ * Kent worst asbestos: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/asbestos-deaths-on-the-rise-42260/ * Kent dozens of unsolved murders - even of the ones they've recorded: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/kents-unsolved-murders-42165/ * Kent Environment Strategy: nothing done for Climate Change - kent.gov.uk * 100 SE Rd garden grabbing - mere silence and delay * KCC tobacco and fossil fuel investments * Landfill bloat * Tax haven Kent: Canterbury 4th highest in UK, and Dirty Pleasurama - do they think we're idiots supposedly selling Pleasurama to the same people who were involved in the BVI tax haven scandal? * Shit on the beach again from Southern Water * Lydd/Buchanan: 9-11 risk * Seafront parking and tramps lager * No Most Wanted of rapists and burglars * Manston/UKIP leadership "a liability...