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

Obviously your vote is yours to use or not as you wish. I would add only my views on both the upcoming elections: * Ramsgate has 2 KCC councillor seats and I would suggest you vote for Ian Driver (Ind) and Raushan Ara (Lab) both active in the town and free of the failure of the traditional parties whether Labour or Tory or now UKIP. * In general non-parachute candidates and Green or Ind candidates are better: the Bayford and Iris Duffers and Crooks of Thanet Labour and Thanet Tory have failed us and Thanet Green and Libdem usually invisible. * Vote out current KCC councilors (most of them seem not to be standing): nothing done in 5 years. Only silence: Shonk, Heale and candidates Wells, Boyd and Hillman. The latter a London council parachute candidate. Surely a TDC vote of no confidence due in the Summer too after the porkies and BS around reopening Manston. * Vote out Paul Carter KCC Leader and John Simmonds KCC Finance councillor - if you can, given the odd local election ...

The refusal of Nigel Farage to stand again in South Thanet means the almost-total wipeout of UKIP in East Kent. And the refusal of LibDem Russ Timpson to stand marks the end of his ludicrous nonsense about Manston being a Spaceport for NASA. As with the Macron result in France we're seeing the collapse of the traditional parties in UK. And good riddance too. Nothing has been done in 5 years by UKIppers at KCC and Leader Roger Latchford - formerly of the Gang of Four - has also resigned. The UKIP national policy to reopen Manston has been a farce since the 2015 election under former Tory and Manston committee member Leader Chris Wells. And now we have the air pollution statistics with Thanet over 90 air pollution deaths - double most of the rest of Kent. As you'd expect with Infratil and TDC removing the air pollution monitors and faking the data for almost 10 years. And even now not one public statement form TDC or councilors on how this happened. ...

It's good there's a snap general election. Clearly 6 weeks is far too short notice and the Fixed Term Act need reform to prevent this jiggery-pokery eg 6 months notice. And Labour wipeout will lead to a more capable new Leader than Corbyn. 2 years and only muddle. Free school dinner is hardly a huge national policy. UKIP is already wiped out and will be at the KCC local election too. I hope Farage stands in South Thanet again to explain the Manston aquifer crimes and Thor mercury. He's not been heard of since 2015 and merely another local radio shockjock grumbling about that day's newspaper headlines. May has called the election for a few reasons: 1. To avoid the slow death of c.30 byelections from the Tory election fraud - the largest fraud in UK history and pivotal here in South Thanet with Local Craig as Nick Timothy's puppet as detailed by Channel Four. 2. An Empty Parliament and MonoBrexit Parliament: no policies at all and one could argue UK has...

Tim Garbutt TDC Leader 2019 and MP 2020 said: "The Pulitzer Prize now awarded to the Panama Papers investigation shines a light on the rampant and similar council corruption in Kent. Although Kent's jumble-sale journalism would likely only gain the wooden spoon for tame reporting. Pleasurama, Kent's largest seafront development, has been mired in dodgy deals for over a decade with the Gang of Four - Roger Latchford the 4th member of the Gang only now resigning from KCC, after the previous council leader was jailed and CEO sacked. The Toxic Two now Three of KCC Leader Paul Carter and Legal Head Geoff Wild, cling on for another cod-election while the wipeout of UKIP in East Kent, already makes a mockery of Manston election policies. The rapid and mysterious shifts in ownership by TDC and hurried sale for just £3M - and the Pleasurama site apparently owned now by Colin Hill plus other unknown investors - raises serious questions of council and police fai...

You can’t make this stuff up. You really can’t. I refuse to stand in KCC’s broken election. And you as a voter or candidate should consider the same. The mix of KCC election incompetence and Manston-Infratil and Thor mercury cancer victims and Pleasurama corruption is simply too toxic. I refuse to stand and lend it a veneer of authority. For now hard on the heels of the blatant 2015 Thanet election fraud with over £15k the whole expenses spent in just one hotel for the largest ever UK election fraud and fine, we now have the KCC election beginning 7 days ago...yet the poll cards haven't been sent out. And candidate nominations close tomorrow. Apparently extra cost is being deployed to scurry around hand-delivering the poll cards. Ask for yourself - everyone I've spoken to is horrified at the failure and reduction in democracy and candidates being massed about: * Benjamin.watts@kent.gov.uk * Claire.hawken@thanet.gov.uk It’s a shambles. An utter, utter shamble...