tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79470370258007440072024-02-19T16:14:26.199+00:00Time for Change: Campaign for an Independent Green Thanet MP and Ramsgate MayorTime For Change in Thanet.
An area and council rated in the bottom 10% of the UK's 440 Councils - by the BBC, and Government itself.
Stop the Pollution. Stop the Corruption. Stop the Construction.
Manifesto at: www.votegarbutt.co.ukTim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.comBlogger604125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-18777334056938515862021-03-04T19:55:00.004+00:002021-03-04T20:01:28.227+00:00David Cockburn KCC: Parkway and council corruption
(email to David Cockburn KCC CEO 3/3/21 cc Parliament etc as below)
Hi David
I and others were surprised at an access road for Kent Parkway rail station planned for 15th March without notice/consultation.
As you know from KCC's own research the Parkway was overwhelmingly rejected by the public and councillors. And any rail improvements were less than 90 seconds or so(!). Yes, seconds.
Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-10937040269954977452020-02-19T15:38:00.001+00:002020-02-19T17:50:53.090+00:00Garbutt for Kent PCC Police and Crime Commissioner election May 2020
Garbutt for Kent PCC Police and Crime Commissioner election May 2020
Stop the Corruption Chief Constable Pughsley.
Blatant Crimes-by-Council with County Barn KCC and TDC on Manston-Infratil removing airport minors and faking the data for years.
That also affecting London air pollution statistics beyond the East Kent corpses.
Why has there been no Police inquiry? Bob Bayford and Roger Gale Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-35186296673172985682019-10-29T19:35:00.000+00:002019-10-29T19:35:23.817+00:00Tobias MP and Yellow Peril 2.0 for China and 77th Brigade?
The Tobias Ellwood MP article in last week’s Mail on Sunday (and a full page no less) was chilling for several reasons.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7592503/TOBIAS-ELLWOOD-China-winning-war-West-cyber-space-dark-moon.html
The blaring headline of:
"From cyber space to the dark side of the moon, China is waging war on the West - and it’s winning"
is concerning not just for PinkTim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-90920630084293757592019-08-05T16:49:00.005+01:002019-08-05T16:49:56.894+01:00Here’s £100M worth of Damn Good Advice on advertising Brexit Boris
The Boris announcement of £100M for an advertising campaign for Brexit struck a chord as I was rereading United States of Advertising guru George Lois’ memoir Damn Good Advice.
Lois famous for the passion of Muhammed Ali cover for Esquire magazine of The Louisville Lip struck by arrows in St Sebastian style for being martyred over refusing the Vietnam draft.
Lois, one of my advertising gurus Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-49296155064103036352019-08-05T16:41:00.000+01:002019-08-05T16:41:12.337+01:00Letter to Parliament on Dreamland etc corruptionHi Meg
In your PAC Chair role can I flag up the very fishy sale of the Dreamland amusement park site in Margate - the largest site in Kent.
I've copied Madeline Homer and Tim Howes as TDC council CEO and lawyer as the sale featured in no recent election manifesto.
Nor were tenders issued for competition - and the sale was nodded through in a 6 minute unanimous council debate last week - lead Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-52038030890997347952019-08-01T16:47:00.000+01:002019-08-01T16:47:02.850+01:00Cuba Renaissance on track with UK and A Different Gringo strategy?
Certainly a Cuban Renaissance with UK is underway with dynamic new Ambassador Stokes and the first UK Royal visit to the Communist nation by Prince Charles and Camilla earlier this year.
Charles lounging next to John Lennon on a Malecon bench, before leading British Classic Cars through the throng of USA sanctions 1950's classic cars. Those Chevy's and Cadillacs probably powered by old Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-76443235264305618602019-07-13T17:37:00.004+01:002019-07-13T17:37:56.703+01:00Email to TDC CEO Madeline Homer etc on Pleasurama and Dreamland etc East Kent corruptionFriday 12th July 2019
Hi Madeline
As CEO of TDC can I briefly flag up to you 3 major concerns raised in my MP campaign and to you/Tim Howes previosuly:
1. TDC planned sale it seems to Sands Hotel etc of Dreamland - the former a tax haven company and latter the largest seafront site in Kent and receipt of public funds etc. I've never hear of such a main site simply been allocated and that Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-25338896274136904392019-07-13T16:53:00.001+01:002019-07-13T17:29:03.251+01:00ASEAN 2030 World Cup back of the net for Thailand and Indonesia but UK fumbles the ball?
Even with the confusion of the Thai elections now resolved for the moment with a PM Tu party and Pheu Thai and Future Forward opposition, the ASEAN Chair Summit last month, raised some interesting actions.
An ASEAN Space Agency is wise for weather satellites and 5G - surely an opportunity for UK/EU Space Agency support, and the new Australia Space Agency celebrating a slightly rusty first Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-82438769691254083922019-07-09T19:46:00.000+01:002019-07-09T20:15:13.009+01:00Fast track Thailand and Cambodia rail - and UK?
A vigorous full page editorial today from the Bangkok Post emphasises the success and potential for the new rail link from Bangkok through to Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The link opened in April by both Prime Minister Chanocha and Hun Sen just a few weeks before the ASEAN Summit chaired by Thailand emphasised connectivity.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1709027/Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-26675756549170594112019-06-24T16:51:00.001+01:002019-06-24T16:51:51.380+01:00Police review update: Ramsgate and KentCrediit where it’s due I wanted to point out, almost 2 weeks after the first police review meeting, things are much improved in the town centre with tramps, pedzone cars etc.
Some issues remain:
1. In 2 weeks I haven’t seen any police foot patrols day or night. Prowl cars excellent.
2. Some tramps remain at the BetFred benches: drunk and yelling and litter before 6pm and drug gangs/groupsTim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-70680311266257642612019-06-24T16:40:00.002+01:002019-06-24T16:40:14.971+01:00 Dividends end at Dover and Osaka for UK and G20?
A rigorous Sunday Times article "Go East income seeker" details the potential for UK growth alongside the stock markets of Australia, China, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. Indeed Chancellor Phillip Hammond inking a deal with the Shanghai and London Bourses for such growth ahead of this week's G20 meet in Osaka.
And the Thai-Cambodia new railway not just creating the strategic linkage of Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-77717452963219760212019-06-24T16:36:00.002+01:002019-06-24T16:36:42.915+01:00 Uncle Tu and ASEAN workaday politics for UK and Thailand
So it’s all over bar the future shouting and debates as Uncle Tu is crowned PM last week by King Rama from the lengthy election campaign.
And more twists and turns of the election than a nest of cobras as Cabinet roles are handed out in the 20 party coalition and Senate majority of Uncle Tu.
Khun Thanathorn and the Future Forward party settling for second place in opposition with Pheu Thai - Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-90130418824052585052019-06-24T16:31:00.002+01:002019-06-24T16:31:28.637+01:00Oz and UK and Treble Club exports/FDI
A choice for Australia: merely a Chinese Farm dwarfed by Indonesia’s population, or a UK and Commonwealth 21st century trade hub.
And a strengthened Pivot South with UK Irish Guards at Darwin– or the risk of more Pacific radiation from India-Pakistan nuclear conflict or Spratlys/Guam and North Korea nukes?
And Pacific Resilience Group on monsoon/typhoon floods, volcanos, earthquakes, forest Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-7921912939246312362019-06-24T15:11:00.000+01:002019-06-24T15:11:00.583+01:00Isaan report and UK
Excellent report on Isaan region in Thailand by Asia Foundation and UK DFID aid funding:
https://asiafoundation.org/publication/thailands-inequality-myths-reality-of-isan/
The basis of further/expanded UK activity in Thailand and ASEAN.
Time for Change
@timg33Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-55312541435795831062019-06-18T17:46:00.001+01:002019-06-18T17:49:20.527+01:00#2 South Sudan a beacon for Africa with UK and USA and Thailand?
The Parliament review of the monstrous failure of providing the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi from USA and now the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on Italian Mafia fake drugs infiltrating the NHS is no doubt a further scalp for Kent Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren on the warpath in her POTUS bid on drugs prices.
And Norman Lamb MP of Parliament Committee raising the issues. The Collapse of Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-51736635698488147312019-06-16T20:54:00.003+01:002019-06-16T20:54:35.602+01:00A Tale of Two Sudans with UK and USA and Thailand
The unrest in Sudan again with demonstrations in Khartoum, Omdurman and Port Sudan with upto 100 demonstrators shot dead and thrown into the Nile highlights the dangers facing not just Sudan’s slide into chaos and dictatorship but the threat facing neighbouring South Sudan as it emerges from such a state.
The latter the world’s newest nation, unless you count last month’s name change by North Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-77974818278913947912019-06-07T17:58:00.004+01:002019-06-08T17:14:42.342+01:00Thailand schooling UK and USA beyond Animal Farm and 1984?
An interesting article as always by Khun Surinya in the Bangkok Post on Thailand schools:
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1687488/school-merger-policy-so-unfair-to-kids
And a follow up editorial article by xxx to spell out this vital issue in further detail:
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1687888/school-mergers-need-extra-care
Some 18,000 THhi village schools inTim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-24190698646220184132019-06-03T19:14:00.002+01:002019-06-03T19:14:44.919+01:00DDay: UK and USA the next 75 years?
The DDay 75th anniversary is significant not just for - at last - the first official state visit to UK by POTUS Trump, or the first memorial to the British landing beaches in Normandy but the last event of the liberation of Europe by those who took the beaches, and as POTUS Reagan said, climbed the cliffs, as it passes from living memory.
Here in East Kent the P22 US Navy patrol boat taking Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-57329731513660596792019-06-02T17:55:00.001+01:002019-06-02T18:05:12.752+01:00Ramsgate collapse continues - literally
The collapse of the Ramsgate Tunnels stage with minor injuries and the seafront cordoned off with police and ambulances highlights many of the same problems infecting East Kent.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/live-updates-stage-collapses-ramsgate-2933010
An amateurish and sloppy and underfunded approach to the seafront by RTC council and TDC and KCC - many if not most of the Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-21801006471080615522019-05-31T16:09:00.001+01:002019-05-31T16:09:10.321+01:00Manston airport: Helix/Riveroak reply
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 Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-5232771051330914692019-05-30T12:54:00.000+01:002019-05-30T13:04:08.916+01:00UK and Thai Parliaments similar?
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 Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-28093267693563965522019-05-30T11:02:00.003+01:002019-05-30T11:02:24.282+01:00Garbutt: new Thailand-Cambodia railway opensTim 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 Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-22399269014935600162019-05-30T09:09:00.001+01:002019-05-30T10:17:38.578+01:00Karen: Weekend of Blood Police review meetingDear 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 Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-90625040363314898442019-05-28T15:55:00.001+01:002019-05-28T15:55:20.924+01:00Claudia Thalmann Helix corp: Manston airport and Riveroak public inquiry
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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/Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-19720800547391257772019-05-26T13:11:00.001+01:002019-05-26T13:37:18.943+01:00Prem death premature for Thailand and UK stability?
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 Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468noreply@blogger.com0