Trump for Nobel Peace Prize?

Yes. Why not?

A quite extraordinary series of foreign policy triumphs by POTUS Trump especially on North Korea.

Even with the last-minute nerves of the Singapore Summit off then on again, in just over 6 months we’ve had more movement on North Korea because of POTUS Trump than in the previous 6 decades.

From the pre-Xmas insults of Little Rocket Man and Dotard and missiles aimed at Japan and Guam and Hawaii we have the biggest breakthrough on the Korean peninsula since Inchon.

A united Korea sports team at the Winter Olympics and Kim JongUn's sister's rare travel to South Korea.

The North Korea and South Korea presidents meeting at Panmunjon DMZ and each travelling over the DMZ line.

A peace treaty to end the war of 1953 being drafted – UK too as a participant in the 1953 war with countries such as Thailand and even Cuba on the allied side for the first UN police action.

South Korean propaganda loudspeakers aimed at North Korea turned off.

Discussions on a rail link and air bridge between Seoul and Pyongyang.

Consideration of USA troop withdrawals.

Ending nuclear tests, albeit with the test site already damaged, and now blown up in front of the world’s media.

President Xi of China's support for detente. Missiles and leaky nuclear plants just a few miles from Shanghai or Beijing must be something of a concern. And a dampener on OBOR extension through Korea and across to EU and even Vancouver and California over the Bering Strait.


The Singapore Summit surely laying the groundwork for a wider EU-style East Asian Group for peace and prosperity: China, Mongolia, Koreas, Japan and even Russia and Taiwan. The latter as with Hong Kong and Macau likely to reunite as the political and economic systems dovetail between the mainland and inner islands.

Even settlement of the post 1945 Cold War deep freeze of the Kuriles and Sendaku. And Paracels and Spratlys that annoy Chinas ASEAN neighbours for little purpose.

While 38,000 American troops likely to be largely withdrawn to Okinawa and Japan or a Pivot South to Australia and even mainland USA as the Koreas reunite.
North Korean clocks adjusted half an hour to synchronise with South Korea - a tweak well known here in East Kent with Ramsgate 5 minutes 41 seconds ahead of London before GMT unified Britain’s timezones.

New State Dept head Mike Pompeo returning from North Korea with 3 released American prisoners.

Any one of the above would be extraordinary for Korean relations but all of them surely worth the peace prize for POTUS Trump and a successful Singapore Summit.

All of them earth-shattering and even a crescendo of a Glastonbury music festival at the DMZ. Landmines aside one of the world’s largest nature reserves due to the frozen conflict.

While the desolate border along the Yalu dividing China and North Korea - as with Myanmar and Bangladesh crying out for development and connectivity for OBOR. Even a Japan-Korea undersea tunnel as here in East Kent with the Channel Tunnel and HS1 hispeed rail?

And it may be a little early for the first Trump Tower plans for downtown Pyongyang although certainly needed with extra trade and tourism. Even a Checkpoint Donald through the DMZ as with the Checkpoint Charlie of Berlin and eventual German reunification?

Presumably various Trump Davos 15Friends will be spearheading investment lead by Nestle and its vitamins and food supplements and baby milk powder and bottled water. Kim JongUn probably not averse to Nestle’s KitKat chocolate from his Swiss boarding school days.

North Korea’s troops probably also keen to have a break from sitting in their trenches and instead being redeployed in work battalions to bring in the harvest, or at least unload those Nestle trucks or USAid and DFID and JICA and AusAid trucks and ships. Volvo opening a new car and lorry factory around Pyongyang?

While Nokia and SAP and ABB and Siemens would be crucial in ripping and replacing the 1950’s telecoms and transport infrastructure. Sheffield’s Boeing HQ keen to replace every plane in the AirKoryo fleet, still banned from EU. Even airlift and SAR helicopters for the more mountainous regions of North Korea.

And Statoil (sorry, Equinor) and Total active on solar and wind power to help light up North Korea’s towns and cities.

A Nobel Peace Prize almost guaranteed as an astonishing Nixon in China moment. And surely DRC Congo and Libya and Syria next?

But against the backdrop of the North Korean successes already by POTUS Trump is UK missing the bus in terms of trade with both North and South Korea?

USA doesn’t even have an ambassador yet in South Korea yet is wiping the floor with UK in terms of trade already with South Korea one of the world’s most advanced digital nations literally emerging from the rubble of the total devastation of the 1945 and 1953 wars.

Why doesn’t UK have 5G hispeed fibre broadband already? Even free wifi from BT given it’s already in place now. Finland now specifying internet access as a right – crucial for any 21st century economy.

And Estonia forging ahead with world-leading e-governance. Why isn’t UK issuing free emails and phone numbers for government information on Pandemics given it’s the number one UK strategic threat? Yet more ebola outbreaks in Congo even without a flu or bird flu outbreak or TB increase.

And the biochem threat of polonium or novichuk - the latter chemsite in Russia now demolished as North Korea's nukes site.

Even free Raspberry Pi and Kindles and 3D printers in schools and universities: just 11M under 16’s and 2M university students will hardly break the Bank of England in regearing the nation as a digital nation. With or without the rampant LIBOR frauds and taxpayer bailing out RBS or BHS or Carillion.

East Kent fortunate in improving its broadband speeds from the hitech Discovery Park and Pfizer science labs, and 4 nearby universities and 3 main hospitals.

Thailand shifting rapidly back to full democracy with its Thailand 4.0 governance and a Team Thailand of Durian Diplomacy with OTOP and Doitung and specific market sectors for growth UK only late last year producing its first Industrial Plan ever. Anyone know what’s in it or how it will be achieved?

And surely the Trump Davos15 Friends a key UK strategic interest too given they are some of Europe’s largest businesses. Siemens and Krupp already expanding their investments in UK. HBSC moving beyond talk too?

But shades of Who Lost China again with Germany with far more trade than UK in the Middle Kingdom and without any of the benefits of Hong Kong or Commonwealth relationships.

Let’s hope the North Korea changes are reflected in a Singapore Summit beyond more talks about talks and prosperity for UK too.

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Trump on North Korea. And UK?

What an astonishing series of events over the last few months with POTUS Trump policy on North Korea.

From the Little Rocket Man and dotard, fire and fury insults at the start of the year with missiles aimed at Guam and fortunately mistaken missile alerts in Hawaii (relevant for improved Pacific Resilience with yet another volcano erupting?) the thaw has begun.

A United Korea sports team at the Winter Olympics with Kim Jong-Un’s sister meeting South Korea’s President and VP Mike Pence – or at least sat near him in the bleachers- astonishing enough.

And shattering the ice of a Korea frozen since 1953, the North Korean and South Korean presidents meeting at the Panmunjon peace village on the DMZ and stepping onto each other’s land before more detailed discussions.

Then new State Dept Secretary Mike Pompeo returning with 3 American prisoners held in North Korea.

And the North Korean timezone adjusted by 30 minutes (or should that be 70 years?) to correspond with South Korea’s.

While President Xi of China, in a Western business suit compared to Kim Jong-Un’s Mao suit urging on détente and US-China trade links with ZTE Telecoms.

Trump Towers surely a beacon gleaming out over China to the UN Habitat offices in Fukuoka for redevelopment of the slums of India and Africa?

And the North Korean test site dismantled in just a fortnight along with South Korean press observers as verification.
The whole nuclear test site demolished as Putin’s Novichok chemical weapons site a sign of real change.

But now a Summit in Singapore to detail more reforms.

And UK?

Certainly urging on a peace treaty as a signatory with over 1,000 UK troops killed in the 1950-53 war. A poignant memorial here in East Kent at Margate cemetery of bare brick alluding to the desperate poverty of a Britain still crippled from WW2.

The WW2 rationing continuing into the 1950’s – shades of the need for North Korean conscript troops often deployed out of their barracks and trenches and into the fields at harvest time.

And if the Who Lost China debate still rages, with Germany for example far outshining UK investments in China, then East Germany is perhaps relevant for the likely reunification of Korea.

Slowly and then as an avalanche the cracks appeared in East Germany’s glasnost with West Germany as the Berlin Wall fell and within two years full reunification was achieved.

Undoubtedly as with East Germany (anyone for a used Trabant? No?) almost all North Korea’s infrastructure will need to be replaced.
And shouldn’t UK be sat at that top table of discussions?

Even a new Landrover Defender factory of UK’s richest man £21BN Jim Ratcliffe.

Whether it’s Sheffield’s new Boeing HQ and the replacement of all 19 of Koryo Airlines passenger planes – banned from most nations as decrepit and dangerous. Even Chinook Resilience helicopters given the mountainous, remote, frozen terrain and poor roads of many North Korean towns and villages, North Korea’s transport structure will need the rust scraping off it.

South Korean and Chinese investors must already be chomping at the bit.

Those North Korean rocket scientists might be worthy addition to UK’s space agency unless Florida and NASA are calling first.

A shoo-in too for Seabees and Royal Engineers assistance and cooperation with North Korea, from the remote roads and aid airstrips and bridges, of frontier economies such as Sudan, Afghanistan and Myanmar.

The frontiers of both North Korea and Myanmar described recently as stuck in the past of the WW2 era.

POTUS Trump will no doubt reinvigorate his 15 Davos friends. Krupp steel may face greater competition from Chinese and South Korean steel, but surely Nokia and its proven Smart Cities work in Chattanooga perfect for Pyonyang?

The New York Times even urging similar public transport and Climate Change reforms closer to home in Nashville.

The Nestle-Starbucks joint venture paying dividends already with the first Starbucks café to open in Yangon – only Laos the last ASEAN nation to benefit from the surge in coffee culture.

And from his Swiss boarding school days, Kim Jong-Un might welcome some more Nestle chocolate in North Korea. Even Lucky Iron Fish iron supplement.
The Volvo Ocean Race might end up making waves off a united Korea’s beaches too.

And Statoil and Total oil must be putting a shine on their solar panel and windfarm divisions – UK’s ITV news credits showing a stunning map of the world lit up at might from space. Except North Korea.

20M people in one main city and dozens of small towns will need both modern energy and telecoms – especially the internet and wifi given South Korea’s pre-eminence as a Digital Nation.

Opening up North Korea might help UK expand its internet activity with South Korea too. The BT reforms over its failed sports channel surely ripe for consideration of UK free public wifi and speeding up 5G rollout.

Even teeing up a few Japanese and South Korean baseball teams (a United Korea team again?) for display matches for next year’s Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees fames in London.

UK at the moment looking like the North Korea of digital compared to South Korea.

Certainly the gurgling of EU talent for the Creative Industries down the Brain Drain is likely to speed up with any Brexit or talk of Brexit.

While UK as the surveillance nation with most CCTV cameras and even SmartMeter and Sony TV televisions more suited to a draconian police state as North Korea or East Germany as was?

UK a colder, more hostile nation after any Brexit?

And East Germany after 25 years of the last Russian troops leaving, is in need of another great leap forward in redevelopment from weak economic statistics. The 1,000 strong US Army Europe HQ heading eastwards to Frau Merkel’s constituency?

UK troops, and police, now less relevant in the face of Russian border-nibbling militarism held in Donetsk, sat in barracks in Germany. Yet Albania in danger of becoming Europe’s only narcostate with 40% of its farmland under marijuana, and the most drugs prisoners in UK jails after Jamaica cycling through jail and probation on the rates.

Former Tony Blair aide Alastair Campbell no doubt offering wise advise to Albania’s PM Edi Rama and ladeling out funds from the bureaucratic nightmare of the alphabet soup of EBRD and IMF etc.

While Davos15’s HSBC and Deloitte are surely ideal to navigate the shoals and reefs of AIIB and ADB funding, the former with UK and latter with Japan but neither with USA. And a larger bowl of alphabet soup in IMF and UN oversight.

UK-USA companies such as Walmart-Asda (the latter with the Sainsbury merger too?) relevant for a hungry and famine-ridden North Korea.

That UN oversight no doubt extending to SUN Scaling Up Nutrition for North Korea’s hungry people.

And plus-fours if not quite a hammer and sickle, best suited to a Trump hotel and casino in downtown Pyongyang and certainly golf-mad South Korea along with Taiwan (another UK lost opportunity with woeful UK expats undermining the British Council?) must be ripe for a few Trump golf courses and beach resorts?

Opportunities in the landmine-laden DMZ even after cleanup, with the border area a wilderness and wildlife reserve through the conflict. Those North Korean military binoculars and bunkers used on wildlife rather than troop formations.

Even British companies doing rather well in Asia such as Boots and eventually Paul Smith fashions perhaps boosted by David Beckham as a Sports Diplomacy football icon and now the British Fashion Council Ambassador. Plus of course plus fours, or just baggy trousers, of Victoria Beckham’s stylish fashions competing with Ramsgate’s Vivienne Westwood and her new advertising campaign with Margate’s Tracy Emin.

While North Korea’s people must want a change from propaganda whether their own television and radio or VOA so shouldn’t BBCTV be pressing for media deals? Even the archives of North Korean television and radio shows as historical artefacts.

Those North Korean Mao suits no doubt quickly replaced by Levis and Burberry too.

North Korea changing from 1950’s Cold War sabre-rattling relic to being poised to become a 21st century smart nation within weeks.

Not so much the winds of change but a hurricane of activity blowing through East Asia because of Trump.

USA trade sanctions too likely to fall away from Cuba as the Castro regime fades too? For an America First President Trump is already leading the way on international activity.

The Kelloggs factory evacuated in Venezuela, and then nationalised in the face of USA sanctions and 190,000 citizens fleeing as far south as Argentina and Chile for their own cornflakes suggests the Venezuelan economy is far behind North Korea and even Russia in snap, crackle and pop.

Already calls for the Nobel Peace prize for POTUS Trump becoming louder and only dimmed through the divisions of the Paris Climate Agreement, Jerusalem Embassy – 52 protesters shot dead on the first day - and Iran nuclear deal.

And if denuclearisation undoubtedly means the end of North Korea’s nuclear activity certainly too a reduction and ultimately withdrawal of American troops back to Japan is viable.

And as the border island disputes between North and South Korea fall away as a united nation, the Trump Summit could lay the groundwork for Korea-Japan island disputes, even the beginnings of an East Asian version of the EU with Korea, Japan, China, Russia, Taiwan and Mongolia cooperating on peace and prosperity.

Trains crucial too for connectivity with Kim Jong-Un (that armoured Presidential train to China almost identical to Octopussy and Goldeneye train sets of East Kent’s James Bond, but without the nuclear warheads? Xmas fixtures of East Kent’s Hornby and Airfix too?) already urging a rail link between Seoul and Pyongyang.

Apt too that Ramsgate’s Manston airport in East Kent, featuring in the Moonraker novel, doubled as a North Korean set in the Die Another Day 007 movie.
With Siemens going into overdrive from its new East Yorkshire factory on rail carriages?

And no doubt onto China’s OBOR and even Bering Strait Bridge to Canada and USA – maybe Krupp would want to be involved in that megaproject with SAP and ABB AI and robotic systems.

The Korean-Japan undersea tunnel long discussed too and hardly more outrageous than the Channel Tunnel here in East Kent.

Those Californian Apple computers and phones (and South Korea’s Samsung) manufactured in China as well as Korea and shipped across the Pacific with superdry feet.

Trump in North Korea already achieving more in six months than previous regimes in 6 decades.

UK only watching from the sidelines?

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UK and Mexico lost to drugs gangs? Frontline Kent.

You'd think so from the Bank Holiday Weekend carnage of a knife death in Liverpool, a gun death in London and a drive-by shooting.

Redolent of the Sawdust Caesars of Mods and Rockers Bank Holiday gang violence in East Kent in the 1960's but now violence and drugs and deaths more prevalent.

And the National Crime Agency reports a doubling of knife crime in the last 3 years in Hertfordshire and Warwickshire and Cambridgeshire.

The Sunday Times front pages reporting:

"Knife crime epidemic hits the shires” and “City drug gangs bring bloodshed to counties" with knife crime up 20% in London yet 86% in Essex and 274% in Norfolk.
Perhaps from low levels, but even so a concern if you're now more likely to be stabbed in Bedford than Liverpool. And an increase in acid attacks as big city gangs take over smaller town dealers.

As an aside having worked on tourism and regeneration in Liverpool a great British success story from the days of hubcaps and heroin thefts. And relevant for the new Channel Four HQ.

A Home Office report though details 720 heroin and cocaine routes from the main cities of London, Liverpool and Manchester to rural areas. No doubt a top priority for new Home Office Minister Sajid Javid with the Windrush debacle broadly being resolved.

And the Taliban safe havens slowly being eroded from the Pakistani frontier, indeed former cricketer Imran Khan's election bid a precursor for closer Commonwealth activity?

And of course Caribbean Commonwealth tax havens for drug profits.

Kent Police detailing the cuckooing phenomenon of drugs dealers taking over houses in the Chatham Pocket of Kent's decaying towns and drug areas.

And POTUS Trump's NRA Rifle Association speech throwing a little petrol on the fire of inner city deprivation in comparing London knife deaths to USA gun deaths.
As with the POTUS Trump blood-stained hospitals remark, grumbling not unreasonably at the $1BN cost of the new USA embassy offices or new NATO HQ - both price tags would provide a lot of clean new hospitals or elderly care homes - the remarks can be overblown.

Confused too, as with Britain First now jailed for KKK-style race hate crimes, perhaps from his America First campaign.

Over 60 knife deaths in London so far this year higher than usual but pale into insignificance with 60 gun deaths just in Chicago last week.

500 murders in UK each year or 5 police bullets fired is hardly excessive.

The NRA lobby vocal for many USA politicians and also the Mexico border wall - even with many guns shipped into Mexico from USA by drug gangs.

Frontline Kent clearly not immune from the increase in drugs and knives. Dover, Europe's largest port and the main route with Heathrow and Manchester airport for drug smuggling, whether by ferries of HGV lorries.

Belgium, one of the centres of Europe's Golden Triangle of London, Amsterdam and Paris, with the most drugs arrests in Europe.

Frontline Kent with Chief Constable Pughsley and his team active on Slovak AK47 and machine gun seizures for London drugs gangs at Dover.

Kent also the base of UK's largest gun haul with 34 AK47 machine guns at Rochester Marina last year and 3 AK47 and Skorpion Uzi-style machine guns last week.

And Project Pegasus – shades of an Airbase Heroin needed in Shan Myanmar - in place for smaller airports eg Netherlands drug smugglers arrested at Biggin Hill, and Project Kraken for ports and yacht marinas.

Almeria in Southern Spain's Carboneras seafood featuring as a favourite for Colombian hitman Popeye Velasquez of Pablo Escobar cartel, the bizarre Carboneras council hiring him for tourism recommendations(!).

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201805031064129141-escobars-chief-ad-resort/

Nice seafood in Almeria of course and just a short boat journey from Morocco for drugs smuggling. Spanish police having a siesta?.

Almeria though a superb success story as in Spanish and EU regeneration - the litter of syringes and heroin vials giving way to cleaned up town centres, Malaga yacht marina, and Almeria University and network of Southern Spain universities from the Sevilla Expo.

UK even slipping backwards on rabies control of pets etc from Europe.

Increased USA National Guard patrols on the Mexico border better than paid to sit in barracks with 1M regular troops in USA - and forward placed into Guerrero?
Even the proverbial cannabis under the stairs or back bedroom becoming the whole attic and basement and barns and outhouses.

The Garden of England may be rather tatty and overgrown at the moment but a 3 foot machete of more use in Thailand's forest than Kent.

But what is to be done? Warm words on this or that and handwringing of no real use. And the ban on zombie knives a start.

Certainly Kent Police firm on drugs under Chief Constable Pughsley with a police-crime ring smashed.

But there are UK improvements:

* enforce zero knives carry beyond the Great British Swiss Army penknife
* buy up and end High St sales of knives and guns
* 3 knife and gun amnesties regularly each year
* publish on all 43 police forces that month’s drugs/guns etc haul and arrests
* QPM medal based towards the USA Purple Heart system if not a specific Drugs Medal with awards for first copper through the drug den door etc
* Tighten Kent's Benelux links: and Slovakia the source of many guns adapted from hunting - shades of the bump stocks gun problem in USA

(to be continued)

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Crapita Courts and misc election politics and tampons

People occasionally wonder about the One Essex Court fraud in my MP manifesto: progressing to court latest letter below.

I must say how awful the UK courts are.

I'm fortunate to have witnessed it.

You couldn't make it up and if anyone had told me I simply would not have believed them.

For a very simple bog-standard lawyer and Bar fraud - they actually literally confessed it's astonishing.

The note below is the almost end result of years of effort and delays.

A few random points stand out:

1. You have no chance as a defendant refuting even the most absurd allegations (should the public set aside say 10% of salary for lawyers as ATM's?) - the latest is I live in Thailand, for fun I'll dig out the town name - whilst standing as UK MP. I know you couldn't make it up. But then you go through the rigmarole of denying it etc. Any sign of an apolgy or anyhtugn else? Forget it.

Rather the courts and judges - as lawyers themselves - are outrageously biased to lawyer testimony which is odd given at least 50% of lawyers in a case must be making it up - or simply have no idea of the points.

2. The cost to the public generally in tax is absurd with delayed sessions and judges passing the buck to other judges.

3. The clerks almost all are excellent and often horrified at the judges etc.

4. Lawyers and barristers know there is almost no chance of being caught lying/frauding

5 The review of legal costs is minimal -literally barristers handing up wodges of paper (they may as well have just copied a telephone directory) approved there and then by a judge - a cap of say £10k per legal case needed?

6. Commonwealth death pelties actually reviewed in UK by UK judges is horrifying - and a c.25% error rate in death penalties.

7 I can't find the Teacups Judge name yet but interesting 3 judges in the case sacked/rsigned and Glick cerk etc.

8 Just imagine the disadvantage if you can't read or write English particularly well or were ill etc - no wonder Windrush Jamaican grannies are deported etc. I saw The Wee Gray Scot Blackburne now resigned browbeating an elderly Caribbean chap from 10 metres away when I struggled, sat next to the chap, to understand what he was saying.

9. I cannot believe an dhad no explanation why barristers for a firm are in the court one day as barristers and the next as judges. Literally pardon the pun judge and jury on cases. An extraordinary conflict of interest and as point 4 above sat on the whitewash selfregulators: BSB and SRA

10. More later

11. Politics?

* UK council elections last week in many parts of the UK but nothing much at all. Merely the existing UK drift and stagnation.

* positive more Green councillors than ever but still not many compared to EU: Climate Change/plastics/recycling/landfill end and removal etc etc - Green Coast in Garden of England through to Brighton and London. Very impressed KCC's Martin Whybrow on KCC absurd pension investments in tobacco and oil etc (yours if you're a nurse or policeman too).

* On plastic why not the fab new Unilever black recycled plastic shampoo bottles I every seaside town - the good folks of Ramsgate Walmart Asda to lead?

* positive just 3 UKIP councillors in UK a fall of c.98%(!) and none of those seem to be new. A problem for the Tories in the Cameroony fruitcakes and loonies drifting back although many Ukippers seem to have quit politics completely as will most of the UKIP MEP's next year.

* in Thanet Mayor Shonk and the Wells rump must go. I was astonished to read the Wells editorial in the Latest Thanet Gazette on TDC failure etc - but he was Leader until a month or so ago. Drivel.

* astonishing a UKIP councillor jailed with a councillor but a court restriction in reporting the fact?!

* no sign of either MP and Mackinlay part of the Battlebus election fraud trial this year so nothing done and Gale criticise din Private Eye for being in the unelected Council of Europe essentially a dining club on the rates - a perfectly reasonable Remain and Reform opportunity for EU reform neglected. Where are the FOI/staffing details by dept?

* Bayford and Iris and Homer with the excellent new tax havens bill have some explaining on BVI Pleasurama and Caymans Dreamland (as with Manston/Delaware/Riveroak let's have the owner details this month) - both some of the largest seafront project sin UK and certainly Kent. And Wetherspoons as UK's biggest boozer with no councillor oversight - the Tescopoly destruction of the bars and increase in fights etc an obvious and forewarned issue. Horrifyig the dynamic TDC councillor Ian Driver still has a £20k charge on his house by TDC for releasing the supposedly secret Pleasurama documents. Foolish councillors as mere nodding donkeys for the civil servants costs/bloat etc.

* not sure of turnout seems slightly higher than usual

* weak May/Tory and Labour/Corbyn support - no real movement until a new election

* positive c.10 Lords amendments on Brexit bills essentially rejecting it - I see no point to another Referendum etc: a new Parliament should reject Brexit completely as a mistake for UK

* the Northern Ireland border debate is utter nonsense - and the increase of c.600 clerks on the rates for Brexit dept absurd - what are they all doing and have been doing since June 2016?

* Excellent Kent Police gun and drugs arrest at Dover port - Slovakia often used for gun tweaks

* On Dover just down the East Kent road, and Brexit worth remembering that HGV lorries are processed in 2 minutes - a delay of one minute (remember Stack? DofT still funding empty Manston?) for customs checks etc would have jams back to the M25 if not Piccadilly Circus. No breakfast and no Brexit. And no news on ferry/Chunnel checks of passports etc

* Fab news Cambodian railway through Thailand from BKK to main town of Sisophon now open - and the link to Phnom Penh due to be open by December. And Sihanoukville deep sea port to PP already open and with an airport link. Superb after the Khmer Rouge attacks etc I remember from 20 years ago. PP-HCMC link more difficult as no rail was ever in place due to WW2 etc but key to last link all the ASEAN capitals

* East Timor ASEAN membership progressing. And Commonwealth - tweaking a Commonwealth article after the excellent Summit and Games?

* Great Mabey Bridges of Gloucester and other UK sites (East Kent too? Copart car recycling and Carlotti metalworks?)as a UK strategy of rural development in ASEAN and Kent's Nepal etc - even Caribbean and LatAm Chile bridges done. Essentially a lightweight metal (grapheme soon?) 30M bridge produce din UK or abroad and screwdriver assembly. You wouldn't use them on main roads as such but very viable for rural rivers and mountains etc. Really Great. And cheap/easy enough to forward-place for Resileince damage etc. Philippines and Indonesia 20k islands and storms? Very impressed

* Fab Tour de Yorkshire cycling underway - and Canterbury Pilgrims Hospice a revamp of Canterbury Tour too

* Demolition of goldplated £1M Ramsgate fire station overdue (and MT Energie broken wind turbine on land near Pfizer) and first National Grid megapylons - the former on perpetuity sports land and latter should be buried underground for beautification and jobs! jobs!! jobs!!! And storms Resilience/phone cancer etc

* horrifying Crapita NHS breast screening database error - in East Kent too? With my Sincerity advertising hat on, a database of 70M UK people really isn't very difficult to create and use. It just isn't. Sky and AA and various banks are c.5-12M people without errors. The work of moments. Especially with NHS registering births anyway - interesting statistic of just 5% UK deaths before age 50 - road deaths?

* Great Asia House Arts show on Thai literature winners of the Fukuoka Prize relevant for UN Habitat Japan slums etc: Mabey again?

* Great repulsive live animal exports from Kent/UK to end if not already - surprised animal testing in India and Australia sheep shipments still exist

* Impressed Liverpool and Teeside free tampons - and Princess Markle India tampons charity - and now Celtic football club. Every UK region and school/football club. Tampons and condoms should be free or a penny each. Merely volume and delivery for Africa etc on a product that exists. Ramsgate Walmart Asda own brand tampons 75p for 32 anyway.

* Interesting Tunisia election - and Great British Tourism surge: first woman Mayor for Tunis? How long before North Africa and Levant in EU? Jordan/Israel/Lebanon/Palestine a no brainer now and Prince MBS Saudi reforms with Neom City a thing of genius as a shift to Cairo and Europe: a new Riyadh?


Something is very wrong though with the legal system. Very wrong.


Friday 4th May 2018
Martin Rush
Head Clerk
London Property Tribunal
10 Alfred Place
London

Dear Martin

Thank you for your letter of 3rd May received yesterday and please find attached as promised the scans for Bundle #4: c.9 items in 2 emails for ease of reference and paginated below - and original hard copies of affidavits etc are available for viewing in person.

Very briefly, as detailed in Bundle #4, One Essex Court etc various costs bundles were repeatedly raised over several weeks and months as both fraudulent and duplicates of themselves, and others. I can find no credible explanation for Messrs Palmer, Glick QC and Hollingworth denying - in High Court and a One Essex Court and BSB investigation - any such facts.

And then they confirmed the exact opposite.

The scans/emails now include the details of the fraud points for the above defence case – especially:

A. The scans with Glick in the description and especially one confirming there were no fraudulent/duplicate bundles then another of his emails confirming they were fraudulent/duplicate and confirming a BSB investigation.
A strange turnaround for a QC on such an important issue.
B. An example of peculiar costs by Palmer Biggs provided to High Court
C. My signed affidavit confirming fraudulent bundles witnessed by the respected 250 year old Canterbury form of Gardner Croft solicitors
D. A personal affidavit of my good character and reputation
E. My MP manifesto, cover, newspaper article and manifesto point on the Glick etc fraud
F. The Shrubshall Glick QC Chief Clerk letter confirming BSB provision of everything - except the fraudulent costs/bundles requested by BSB
G. BSB letter from me to Karen O’Rourke for the BSB investigation and providing my copies of the fraudulent costs/bundles and requesting her (as I had done on numerous occasions) to request the same of Glick QC etc
H. Lewinson High Court testimony confirming a detailed assessment required and notice of fraudulent costs etc as “blindingly obvious”
I.Bar Council CEO letter expressing concern at the BSB investigation halted without Glick etc providing the false costs

I don’t have a BSB letter to my MP (copied as kindly raising the issue) confirming BSB had investigated and found no wrongdoing - lying to and misleading an MP is a serious matter.

Nor the letter by Julian Brazier MP on sight of the above confirming he was "appalled” but can confirm them
And so on and on – other emails and hard copies etc etc available but this confirms the nub of the issue of a property and now leasehold issue based around fraudulent costs.

Space precludes details of the transfer – without notice or attending of the property by Downs Law as Palmer Biggs client went bust as detailed in Bundle #4 with the only asset as such the costs court order.

In essence One Essex Court etc were caught redhanded with their hand in the till.

Except for Steve Palmer who under oath - and teed up by his own barrister -bizarrely maintained and still maintains the costs were not fraudulent or duplicates etc.

A barrister denying the costs etc were duplicates then confirming they were.

A QC doing the same.

A lawyer denying they were duplicates and fraudulent.

Clearly this doesn't add up except they were/are lying and trying it on.

Equally clearly though misleading the court with blatant lies is an offence, presumably perverting the course of justice, and perjury.

Many lawyers and some barristers are often jailed, as are members of the public, for much smaller instances.

Bundle #4 cites the policeman jailed over theft of £3,000 not the c.£80,000 (or more who knows given the duplicates etc) as here by One Essex Court etc.
I was jailed under contempt of court for 6 months, you may recall for pointing out these facts - but only for refusing to accept the payments, which raises questions over Judge Mann’s performance.

For such lies and fake costs to result in a sale of property -and leasehold- in the latest case is an issue I am sure you would agree that any court and judge would want to be vigorous in acting upon.

Please advise of any questions and I'll write separately on the points raised for you by Judge O'Sullivan.

Obviously the costs and damages etc are significant and it is worth noting that no expression of remorse has been received from One Essex Court etc as yet.
Denial has also fallen away to mere evasion.

I've copied parliament given the APPG debate on white collar crime of lawyers and accountants over tax havens etc, and the latest parliamentary vote on tax havens last week for which I've raised this case as an example and in my MP and Police and Crime Commissioner manifesto.

You'll recall this also features in some detail in my MP manifesto (in UK not Thailand! and a scan enclosed of the A5, 20 page manifesto) - obviously again any judge, or CPS etc would want to be rigorous in enforcing a UK election manifesto point, or taking action if it was untrue.

I await the transcript of Marten Walsh Scherer (email requests available) which confirm yet a further instance of Mann questioning Hollingworth in High Court on further costs for negotiation my pointing out this a flat lie and Hollingworth then confirming it as such.

Quite extraordinary.
I wouldn’t believe you if you told me but I was fortunate to witness it.

An email to follow detailing numerous requests of Leavor QC – previously Grabiner and Glick - the substitute investigatory partner of One Essex Court for the fraud costs and explanation – as obligated under BSB.

And also Edmund Nourse QC of One Essex Court.

Copies of the One Essex Court internal investigation confirming no wrongdoing available on request – prior to Hollingworth lying again in High Court

A Court Order form Judge O’Sullivan might speed up the request and also issue witness statements from Glick etc – please advise if required.

Separate letter to follow on Judge O’Sullivan’s latest pagination and disbar points.

Please advise if you also require a hard copy of this letter posted to you.

For ease and speed and to save on costs I’ll provide a summary letter for the bundles and these scans.

Kindest regards
Tim Garbutt

Service to court by email: 3 page letter
cc. parliament and BSB as email


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