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

Clearly 43 police forces in UK is excessive, with Parliament already detailing the innumerable permutations of trousers and turnups and pockets and gloves and handkerchiefs. Even boots (or should it be shoes?) varying in price from £25 to £125. If the Police can’t even find a common and consistent uniform what chance finding criminals? Without exacerbating police bunions, why would the public want the police buying £125 shoes on the rates instead of £25 shoes for driving around and sitting about and occasionally walking about? A Fashion Police and Gucci Cops on the run with your money. Whatever happened to a standard uniform and shirt and ties and shoes and luminous overjacket? We even have the Highways Agency of CCTV clerks designing their own little uniform of epaulettes and shoulder badges on the rates. While in Kent with Meiji root and branch reforms we should consider police car procurement in detail. Compared to most police forces Kent does rather well with the majo...

The Newington election to replace Vince Munday takes place tomorrow and I’ve written before on my recommendations: Driver for District and Green or GRIT candidates for Town. At the very least rejecting UKIP after the debacle of Manston indeed all their election promises and rejecting doublehatters. People ask me if I would stand and I say of course not: TDC is corrupt and even this election fails to meet the requirements of a UK election: 6 days for candidates to register not the required 19 days. Why encourage such incompetence or fraud? It’s the FIFA of UK councils in need of massive reform and certainly after almost a year CEO Madeleine Homer is failing despite lavish Prime Minster salaries and benefits for the lowest level of UK governance. I can’t think of one reform and just trundling along is hardly what Thanet or TDC needs. I received a You Tube copy of the Meet the UKippers C4 documentary which I’ve never seen and is perhaps even more jaw-dropping from actually see...

(Newington election update #1 at end of original blogpost: scroll down) Tim Garbutt, 2017 KCC Leader candidate said: "New Year and New Cancer but same old Corruption and failure in Kent. Paul Carter's KCC regime of pensioners has failed Kent miserably in a Lost Decade: * Medway the worst schools in UK * Kent's hospitals the dirtiest with several in Special Measures * Corruption around the removal of monitors by Inratil/Gloag and TDC * Pleasurama Caribbean tax haven corruption - the largest seafront site in Kent * Environment Agency failure: Medway and Stour - UK's most polluted rivers * Southern Water: broken sewers and dumping sewage on Blue Flag beaches * Youth unemployment over 20% and collapse of white elephant schemes like Manston * Dreamland almost bankrupt within 6 months of KCC and TDC investment * Ticky-tacky housing estates bobbing around on the flood plains and 100 SE Rd gardengrabbing * Turner Centre rebuilt twice * Dead Winte...

Well pretty much the same really in Kent. Positive news from 2015 with the resignation/sacking of TDC CEO Sue Macgonigal in January and Planning Director Edwina Crowley in July and KCC Latchford of the TDC Gang of Four sent into irrelevance over KCC funding for Manston. And the May election clearout of Farage and most of the Thanet Labour group. But that’s about it in a year. The weakness of Gale and LocalCraig as MP’s has been revealed after 6 months – empty guff merchants that don’t even live here. Even the latest flawed Munday council election: just 6 days for candidates to register? Is that really a British election at its best? Albeit positive there are only 2 TDC/RTC doublehatters: simply refuse to vote for them. Shonk is the perfect example of accumulating job tiles and little salaries and achieving nothing. How will he improve the towns? A wall of silence and whitewash from Carter and his cronies the toxic Three at KCC over Infratil and Manston pollution and moni...