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

A few miscellaneous points: 1. A nice letter from the new head of Kent Police Authority on how over flights at Manston may or may not be a Kent Police responsibility with a few drops of whitewash still on it and the swish of buck-passing. 2. Will the regular Sunday afternoon Manston illegal over flight land and take off without Customs or Police? If it does I hope they leave a nice bag of heroin or cocaine from Amsterdam for the Police Xmas knees-up. 3. A couple of good points by KCC: the Environment Plan is rather good - although the danger of pointless housing estates and roads badged as eco-tarmac etc will no doubt remain. But 10 out of 12 Kent districts failing the government’s economic guidelines. 4. On a similar point the real KCC Cabinet of Murphy, Jacobs, Balfour, Beatty, Costain, Carillion remain quiet awaiting the next Big Council-Big Construction glory project of bridges, airports, motorways, housing estates, retail parks and business parks with public land, public funds an...

Manston crashes and burns. What then? Carter in jail. Buchanan in jail. Infratil's Directors extradited for trial - that rarity of a free passage back to UK for the Kiwi Killers. Sandys and Gale mere irrelevancies. TDC and the Environment Agency in ashes. Kent governance in freefall. Manston can only have the runway dug up. The warehouses and buildings demolished and cleared. The MOD Fire base and fires moved. A WPZ water protection zone and SSSI site at Pegwell Bay with the highest monitoring to safeguard the aquifer. A Margate Town Council and review of Ramsgate's £20M council tax contribution and the need for 750 TDC civil servants, 15,000 KCC civil servants, silence on staffing, pensions and expenses for £2.3Bn and 56 councillors for failure. So many years wasted. So little done. So much of it abysmal. Such stagnation and waste. Time for Change.

Coughing one up for Infratil. An NHS campaign on lung cancer: East Kent's biggest killer with 428 deaths. You do the maths on what's attributable to the airprot - with monitors removed. http://www.easternandcoastalkent.nhs.uk/whats-new/latest-news/its-not-always-only-a-cough/ And yesterday - even on Carnival Day - 2 illegal 747 overflights, one unmarked at 12 noon and 6pm and a Cityjet plane circling several times. As Mayor I will instigate jail proceedings for Buchanan and Carter. And now some 2 months into the job McGonigal the new TDC CEO is looking to be more of the same Buggins Turn: none of the accounts, from a trained accountant and Director, include the missing fines nor details of Infratil's public secotr subsidies from SEEDA etc or business rates. Silence on EKO invoices, Pleasurama costs and 0% fake pay rises and schtum payments. Your money. Approved by your councillors. For failure and cancer. Infratil may be deliberately polluting the public but TDC are simply ...

No noise monitors in place for 5 years. Fake consultations. Gang of Four sacked and paid off for schtum. The latest ludicrous debate on a night flight ban - and overflight ban - that already exists. A Parkway glory project of £10M until last month. Who is the civil servant at TDC and KCC responsible for the airport? Who are the councillors? When did they know the monitors were removed - what have they done to replace them? Silence from Gale and Sandys - mere Party bystanders and cheerleaders for Paul Carter, Alex King and Geoff Wild. We now have Manston without any regulation or monitoring at all - other than Charles Buchanan doing what he likes. No monitors. No fines. No problems. And no details on the cancer costs: already 4x EU pollution levels. Rare cancers. Time for a Police enquiry and witness statements. Time for jail sentences. Time for Change.

A note to Katherine Kerswell at KCC: As CEO of KCC a 4 star council and CE of SOLACE the Chief > Executive's trade union can you advise on Kent's corruption > scandals: > > * Manston: missing monitors and fines > * c.£200K schtum pay-offs for Messrs Samuel and White of > the Gang of Four > * two paygrade hikes just before dismissal for Richard > Samuel > * 0% pay rises for Samuel and White that are over 10% > increases: can the before and after salary slips be > provided? > * election payments of c.£20k and £18k to Messrs Samuel > and Gilroy as heads of council - presumably only minimal > expesnes are allowed and these costs ar epart of the > £100k-plus job desciption? > * chauffeur costs for KCC - only Cabinet ministers have > chauffeur cars? > * costs of Top Temps and KCC taxis: these seem to be > KCC-funded companiesfor KCC-only use > * Pleasurama-Bungarama: the largest seafront development in > Kent with no plan...

A directly elected Mayor to close Manston and jail Carter and Buchanan and extradite Infratil's Directors. A directly elected Mayor to reduce the number of councillors and ciivl servants. Both local Thanet MP's and Parties seem to shy away from discussing why the 106 has not been enforced by the Gang of Four. And total silence from councillors on the cancer cost and missing fines, nor how they will support flights given it's on the East Kent drinking water supply - a Police investigation is the way forward. Councillors with specific questions to answer - aside from the Party Leaders are: Hayton and Harrison: both Chair of the Airport Committee through the last few years of Infratil and TDC removing monitors, Moores, Chair of the 0% salary review for two of the Gang of Four, and Ezekiel bizarrely standing again rather than following Latchford's sensible move into retirement. And as late as January this year Sandys and Bayford trotting out behind Carter's FOI-released...