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

The Sunday Times (page 15) details how the Dept of Transport and BAA the owners of Heathrow colluded to "fix" data: BAA executives prevented the use of data that showed Heathrow expansion would cause unlawful levels of noise and air pollution - and BAA even used the emissions data of a non-existent "virtual" jumbo jet to reduce noise and pollution figures. Clearly similar with Infratil removing noise monitors at Manston in 2006 - yet this never being mentioned by Messrs White and Samuel in the monitoring information presented to KIACC for 3 years - and still to this day. And with even the removal of the benzene monitor last Summer at the time of the night flights announcements it's clear that the same sort of collusion has been going on. And with refusing to enforce the overflights ban or Infratil waiving the restrictions on loop training flights themselves, the result is the same collusion that has created unacceptable levels of noise and air pollution endanger...

To: mclarke@infratilairports.com; twilson@infratilairports.com Cc: brazierj@parliament.uk; ladymans@parliament.uk; ellmanl@parliament.uk Date: Monday, 22 March, 2010, 1:06 Hi Matt I'm not sure if you're still in the UK but I've not heard back on these points? There's a front cover newspaper article on the dangers of air pollution and links to asthma, cancer etc here: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/britain-a-breath-of-foul-air-1924790.html Clearly aviation directors in a large aviation company could hardly be unaware of the cancer risk etc and requirement for monitoring. Tom, congratulations on your new role and welcome to Manston. I understand that the airport is built on the - polluted - drinking water supply and there are various repeated breaches of the S106 agreement - can you clarify why planes are repeatedly landing outside of the specified control times? Also why planes are repeatedly overflying the towns in breach of the S106: two flight...

Many thanks for your kind notes and I can't reply to everyone - and yes I will now stand for election as MP on 6th May. The platform will be as before plus: Stop the Pollution: * close Manston airport * Thor - publish toxin cleanup details * Gasworks * Richboro * Pegwell Bay * NHS joint-monitoring of TDC pollution sites Stop the Corruption: * fraudulent civil service 0% pay rises * misuse and incompetent use of public funds by one of Britain's worst councils * publish the Pleasurama Caribbean tax haven and Swiss Bank contracts * Sack the Gang of Four and underperforming civil servants and councillors * publish all £22M civil servant salaries, expenses, cars, pensions and other benefits each month * end ChinaGate completely and refund the £25k party donations to charity * end "miniMargateism" - reopen Ramsgate tourist centre and Albion House Town Hall to the public and MP offces upstairs Stop the Construction: * halt overdevelopment: new build houses except on brownfie...

I'm withdrawing from the election and best wishes to the other candidates and public.

Just as well. The latest sign on Ramsgate Tourism Office is that it closes completely on 27th March. That’s good isn’t it? Who’d have thought that towns like Margate or Broadstairs or Ramsgate would be seaside towns with a tourism industry? And with a tourist office already there then it’s best to close it. The Gang of Four have simply collapsed into cuts everywhere except civil servants and tax-salaries. Just as Broadstairs Tourist Office was “improved” by being relocated by a betting shop and a leaflet stand shoved into the Dickens Museum, then so Ramsgate’s is now “improved” by being closed. And where are the Tourist staff being relocated to? Margate. We have the Gang of Four pretending to run a District but mere mini-Margate-ism. And that done badly. Towns of jerrycan regeneration and dog-dirt attractions. Could our councillors and MP’s and civil servants not smell the flames and cack? For 30 years? £60M of council tax alone sprayed up the wall each and every year. What has been go...

It’s worth remembering on Oscar Night the importance of film to the local economy. Films represent over £7Bn in the US alone – breaking all box office records fro one of the world’s largest industries. Kent has begun to develop the Kent Film Office as a focus to ensure films are made in Kent rather than other Counties. As MP I will ensure this office is brought to Thanet rather than stagnating in West Kent to help stimulate regeneration and ensure Thanet becomes a focus for film and the filmmaking industry. With embryonic festivals such as the Thanet Film Festival and filmmakers such as Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall and Medb Films and productions such as Margate Exodus and Ruby Blue it’s perfectly feasible that Kent becomes a film hub. The first port of call for casting directors and locating scouts, specific film careers at schools and colleges and industry creating jobs throughout the economy. As Thanet collapses and burns with contaminated water, failed town planning and mere inacti...

St Augustine one of Kent’s famous landings died from malaria. It’s not clear whether it was from catching it in Rome or in Thanet. With a warmer climate – even vineyards – and a marshy island it’s perfectly possible that Thanet was malarial. The range of malaria victims is also astonishing: http://www.malariasite.com/MALARIA/history_victims.htm And while with TB, Margate’s Sea Bathing Hospital was a well-known hospital for what was known as consumption, and the disease seems almost compulsory for Britons such as Oliver Cromwell and Florence Nightingale – and unusually even Tom Jones the singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tuberculosis_victims While malaria has already been the recipient of 5 Nobel Prizes for Medicine: http://www.malariasite.com/MALARIA/nobel.htm I can’t see any reason why with Thanet’s heritage in medicine and Europe’s largest medical research facility with Pfizer, research in Kent into Malaria and TB eradication with the UN Millennium Development Goals shouldn...

Two-thirds of the District deprived of funding. The remaining one-third of funding wasted. Quoted by Mayor Green at the TDC meeting. Followed by quotes form The Sun recording the decline of Margate into one of Britain’s ghost towns. Not that the money isn’t there: it’s simply been wasted. Richard Samuel District CE makes a very good point at minute 35 of the webcam: “significant public policy failure” ie the public sector has failed to prevent the towns being destroyed. He’s right: every decision and investment by the public sector has essentially brrn wasted: the problems in Thanet have got worse over the years. Not improved. Actually got worse. Not just the current recession but years and decades of failure. And £60M of council tax each year simply sprayed up the wall. The Cliftonville plan again details lack of planning controls for overcrowding or small flats – despite repeated concerns over this being one of the reasons for decline. Falls in parking revenue – no tourists as the at...