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

Sincerity Agency article (www.sincerityagency.com): http://www.kentonsunday.co.uk/blog.aspx?bid=598 KOS blog version above and article on P.25: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=7Cx1e20Q0D8q&PBID=d7d2b9a4-64e8-44e3-9e11-33b67854552c&skip= Unedited version with some info on Ramsgate Town for Heroes below: A forced Forces Day? Tim Garbutt asks if today’s Armed Forces Day looks to the past or the future. Are you out celebrating Armed Forces Day today? It’s still somewhat of a strange day created by Gordon Brown in 2006 to shore up support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – yet now downgraded from a public holiday to a celebration of the Forces albeit similar to Remembrance Sunday in November. Across the County there seems little sign of bunting or bands. Perhaps our heritage of Frontline Kent or Unconquered Invicta extends to Spitfires and Romans but not today’s Forces. The anniversary the Dunkirk Little Ships – is the history o...

Congratulations on you new role Bob. How will cancer from Manston be reversed? The emissions levels are over 4x the EU limits. Infratil breach the 106 repeatedly eg town overflights and discharge to water – all detailed by the Environment Agency. Clearly KCC have walked away form any further funding and SEEDA funding has closed. And, MK Airlines has gone bust owing the fines that were not provided. Not even the "village hall chairs and a DVD player for cancer" seem to have appeared. How are you going to reverse the pollution of the local population? With the airport built on the drinking water supply why hasn’t it been closed already – never mind expansion. Only a clown would suggest an airport on the water supply is a good idea. And then we need to understand compensation and responsibility - none of the safety controls or democratic requirements at Manston have been followed. Clearly the Toxic Three of Latchford, White and Samuel have been playing fast and loose with the de...

http://savethanetswatersupply.blogspot.com/ Manston airport on the underground drinking water supply - see the map above - for 100,000 people. Sensible? Or silly? An airport not only built on the drinking water. But kept open. And the pollution levels detaield for years by the EA simply ignored by TDC's Planning Dept. We seem to have stale politicans that cling to developing an airport either for nostlagia - or simply because they've failed to develop anything else and wasted £60M of tax funds each year. And given all the problems at Manston would rather indulge in coverup and endangering the public. http://gopetition.com/online/19778/sign.html#se water petition

An article published in Kent on Sunday today, page 27: Talking Thailand Tim Garbutt discusses this week’s events in Bangkok. As I write this the Thai Prime Minister has been impeached and the previous Prime Minister accused of terrorism. The Thai military have removed the Redshirt protestors in central Bangkok and imposed a curfew and the central shopping area has been burned down in protest. It certainly makes British politics seem rather dull - but a deeply sad situation as my wife is Thai and many of our family live in Bangkok. It’s surreal to see armed troops and rioters in central Bangkok around many of the places I know and consider my home away from Kent. Living in Kent – a county not known for its ethnic diversity – it always surprises me how interested people are in Thailand. It may be that good food loosens the tongue as my wife owns the Surin Thai restaurant (www.surinrestaurant.co.uk – try the sea bass!) or fond memories of holidays to the Serene Kingdom. The conflict betwe...

A very sad article in Your Thanet on a child with kidney cancer: losing one, 9 months of chemotherapy, trips to London and the specialist cancer wards at the QEQM. http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=c17M05Ww6z0L&PBID=84956776-5fe0-4064-a733-83aabf1dd4b7&skip= Very sad. A rare cancer too. Unusual. Just like a specialist leaukaemia ward at the QEQM. Unusual to have such a specialist ward at an out of the way hospital. But not to be unexpected though with Infratil and Thor and Richboro and the FireDepot and no details of the toxin levels or cleanup. And the fake monitroing of TDC and Infratil at Manston. With the Gang of Four now reduced to the Toxic Three of Samuel, White and Latchford it seems all the more unusual that we have no public statements on the missing monitors and water pollution – and even more bizarre that with the drinking water supply under the runway planes are still flying. Here’s a weblink showing the aquifer unde...

And the Tourist Office and Museum closed for "improved service"? Ramsgate Town Council now have their accounts plus all costs and invoices available for public scrutiny (they’re also available all year round under FOI – but the Audit Commission can’t sign them off if the public refuse to approve them) yet still no detail of salaries, pensions created and most importantly the costs and contract for the Custom House. Clearly there’s a bit of the 1960’s council secrecy and jiggerpokery in voting for the Custom House instead of remaining and repainting Albion House – and even refusing to vote on the petition of thousands of signatures presented to council over 8 months ago. And the civil servants leading the councillors by the nose. With c.£20M provided by Ramsgate taxpayers it’s hardly a reason to close Museums or Tourist Offices or leave Albion House derelict or sold for flats – apart from the usual miniMargateism that RTC is meant to prevent. The logic of having 2 buildings on...

An item below on the effects of kerosene on humans and wildlife from the BP oil spill in USA: toxiciology expert, Dr William Sawyer, who has made a presentation to the US lawyers representing environmental and other interests after the spill has added to the concern: "The dispersants used in the BP clean-up efforts, known as Corexit 9500 and Corexit EC9527A, are also known as deodorized kerosene," he told the group. "With respect to marine toxicity and potential human health risks, studies of kerosene exposures strongly indicate potential health risks to volunteers, workers, sea turtles, dolphins, breathing reptiles and all species which need to surface for air exchanges, as well as birds and all other mammals. Additionally, I have considered marine species which surface for atmospheric inhalation such as sea turtles, dolphins and other species which are especially vulnerable to aspiration toxicity of Corexit 9500 into the lung while surfacing." With aviation fuel e...