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

Hi Nick Thanks for your reply: can you clarify your role at Helix and in the DCO? I'm unclear why you are surprised at myself and the public, and police, participating in the DCO by requesting information of yourself. Especially given previous issues at Manston and media coverage. Can you advise on the questions I've raised that are unanswered and provide any documents you think relevant to support your view. Helix directors are also available media and public questions? Could you also clarify that you understand the East Kent drinking water is underneath the runway and there are missing Infratil/Stagecoach fines. Tim On Friday, 31 May 2019, 09:00:16 BST, Nick Rothwell wrote: Dear Mr. Garbutt, I am surprised by your e-mail if you are standing for Parliament as you should understand the public process that is a DCO. I further do not understand your reasoning for copying your e-mail to various persons of the Kent police. As with this public pro...

Interesting article on Thailand and UK parliaments: https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1686236/british-thai-democratic-systems-cant-be-compared A couple of other points to make are that the UK House of Lords also contains Church of England bishops (including the Archbishop of Canterbury here in East Kent) the only chamber to do so outside of Iran. A Religious Affairs committee could adjust that anomaly. While the 92 hereditary Lords is blatantly undemocratic and the only chamber in the world. Previous hereditary Lords ejected in 1999 but still the strangest elections of the elderly hereditary Lords as they die off having elections by just the other hereditary Lords. The Lords is also nearer 900 members than 780 - the largest outside China. And if the principle is that experts are appointed that's largely untrue with political party appointees booted upstairs form the Commons. And the Lords is distinctly aged: more members over 90 than under 40 - a particular f...

Tim Garbutt, East Kent MP candidate 2019 said: "I am delighted the new Thailand-Cambodian railway has been opened by both Prime Ministers. After 40 years since the destruction of the Khmer Rouge it is one more possible to travel from Bangkok to Phnom Penh. As a further part of my MP manifesto it's time for the link between Phnom Penh and HCMC to be built connecting ASEAN's main cities and capitals. Along with Kwai rail upgrades to Yangon, which would be ideal for Hitachi here in East Kent too with its Eurostar and Channel Tunnel and HS1 hispeed rail expertise. With the first UK Strategic Rail Group gaining the Cairo Metro contract it would be a Great British success, as the inventor of hte railway to deliver on ASEAN and India connectivity. Thailand as Chair of ASEAN this year and Vietnam next year would also be best-placed to deliver on the HCMC link and through to Hanoi and China. And galvanising the delayed Singapore rail. Along with 1M UK tourists to Thai...

Dear Karen Just a quick note to thank you for organising the Ramsgate Police Review meeting. A very useful session airing lots of similar concerns by businesses and public and councillors. I've lived here c.18 years and with Surin Thai restaurant for most of that and stood as Mayor and MP and never seen it as bad as the last 12 months or so. Worth remembering specific lowlights in the recent decline: * tramp tent on High St near WH Smith for all last Summer and cops ticketing it * Weekend of Blood last week with airlifted stab victim * a dozen naughty KFC/Subway Kids * a dozen tramps and street drinkers at the crossroads, previously in Streetdrinker Square by the police station (!) and by Wilko. The cops can't even patrol around the cop shop. * knife fight outside Red Lion at 4pm(!) * tramps camped out on Harbour St for c.8 months * axe man on High St * BMX bikes on pedzone and cars, often the wrong way in the one way system - somebody will be knocked over and ki...

Archive Move Delete Spam / Sent tim garbutt To: info@helixfiduciary.com Hi Claudia I wanted to write to you as Helix Compliance Officer about your role/investment in Riveroak for Manston airport in Kent. I am standing for Parliament in the area and there is concern over the process and public inquiry eg recent news link below: https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2019/05/27/manston-dco-hot-topic-of-compulsory-acquisition-scheduled-for-resumed-hearings/ https://www.helixfiduciary.com/profiles/claudia-thalmann/ I presume there is no wrong doing in Riveroak funded via Belize, BVI, Delaware and now Switzerland with your firm Helix. Confusing perhaps via tax havens without full details of directors etc. Can you confirm your involvement and funds etc and any documents/emails provided to Riveroak/Planning Authority etc. Kent Police/NCA/Parliament copied for their information as Manston has already featured in various Parliament investigations and news repor...

General Prem has had a good innings dying today age 98. The former PM and Privy Council chief dies at a crucial time for Thailand. As with King Bhumibol dying last year, Prem marks the end of an era. And a changing of the guard in Thailand with the new democracy election. Prem's involvement in public and military life stretches back to WW2. And apt with the refurbishment of the Thai Army Museum is a reconsideration of that thinly-documented era. The French-Thailand War of 1940-41 not just the Thai Navy's finest hour but the first loosening of the Western Empires in Asia after the fall of Dunkirk an Ramsgate Little Ships. And the famous landmark in Bangkok of the Victory Monument, Thailand's Nelson's Column. That era ending to all practical purposes only with the Prem armistice of the Thai Communist Party in Northern Isaan in the early 1980's and withdrawal of the Vietnam army from Cambodia by 1990. And more symbolically with the return of Hong Kong in 1...

It is perhaps apt for the 5th anniversary yesterday of the Returning Happiness to the People coup in Thailand that politics returning to normal with battle lines drawn up in Parliament rather than the streets (the Ratchaprasong Junction anniversary of 2010 earlier this week a reminder on what can happen outside Parliament). One can argue Thailand more stable than UK at the moment with the collapse of the political parties even before EU elections - those elections a strange sop to ending the Brexit shambles. While hot talk of coups is merely PM May being replaced in Parliament. Although the strange democratic twist of a second unelected PM via a new Tory leader in 3 years. Let's gloss over the Battlebus election fraud for the previous election and Kent endemic corruption as the County Barn rots. And business in Thailand is returning to normal with the announcement of two bridges across the Mekong to Laos and repairs to the other Friendship bridges. https://www.bangkokpost.c...

As Ramsgate's first female Asian mayor, Raushan has swept away the stain of UKIP. Now as a new broom she has the leeway to reform RTC and TDC: 1. Pleasurama: on her first day, Raushan can issue a municipal order cancelling any sale, call in the police and remove the fence and concrete pillars for a public consultation before another Summer is lost. The dodgy deals under both Tories and Labour have gone on too long. Bayford as Deputy Leader under the Gang of Four and now Leader must know of something given sharing an office with Terence Painter the site estate agent. Even details on how Blueberry Homes in Broadstairs the local property developer bought the site from the Caymans and Panama etc etc? My Big Fat Gypsy Police Chief needs to spend less time with the gypsies and more on such policies. 2. Manston airport. Much the same corruption as Pleasurama with the Infratil crimes of removing air pollution monitors with TDC assistance and faking the data. A bumper crop of cancer rat...

How refreshing to see Robert De Niro turning in a great performance in his advertisement for Warburtons bread or rather bagels. The ad pastiches his Goodfellas role as a mobster and even channels his Casino movie fashions, perhaps even touching on the Eagle Supermarket of The Deer Hunter. And a lovely flourish of NYC tourism with an I (heart) Bolton mug. Warburtons becoming not just a master baker but rather UK's master film maker attracting superstars as De Niro to these shores plus Sylvster Stallone and The Muppets. Surely Al Pacino is next as The Codfather for a Warburtons fish finger sandwich or some cod-Shakespeare malarkey with De Niro fresh from The Irishman movie. Ads and movie stars a well-trod path for both the advertising and movie businesses - currently Harvey Keitel rather wasted in a clunky pastiche of his Reservoir Dogs role for First Direct Insurance. Ryan Reynolds and Jeremy Renner both helming BT wifi ads. And by far the best of the lot at the moment, K...

The Thai election is still sparking with life from the brief campaign of Princess Ubolratana standing for Prime Minister. Within a day though King Rama X, that new title from the Coronation last week, ruling that the candidacy would not be viable despite Princess Ubolratana being a commoner rather than royal albeit with royal duties. And the Coronation confirming Princess Ubolratana as 7th in line for the throne and a honorific royal title too. The princess no doubt still with a sceptred view on Thai politics amidst the cobras and watermelons of the new constitution. Even the Future Forward party facing legal action over fairly minor and innocuous website errors raises the spectre of another judicial coup against young turk politicians such as Nottingham's Thanathorn and London's Pannika, sporting a Princess Leia hairstyle to channel real and even R2D2 virtual opposition to any evil empire, in Thailand or ASEAN. The revived flurry of 1984 Orwell and three fingered Hung...