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

Good news for Kent: * the end of the Pleasurama BVI fraud - a stale leftover from The Gang of Four for a big pension payday of crooked councillors and civil servants (from my Mansifesto #1 and Manifesto #3 A5 version). Only Kolonel Latchford limping on as a turncoat and lame duck. A shame for Cardy though in financial trouble - let's hope KCC steps in to support a decent East Kent company. Shovel-ready projects could include: clearing the Pleasurama site for the end of the Summer and a public consultation on a beach park and icerink, clearing the last rubble and disused wind turbine at Richboro power station (a policy from my Manifesto #1) and removing the old tarmac from the 1970's Pegwell Bay old ferry port UNESCO site (my Manifesto #3). * The BHS Scandal with Philip Green and Lord Grabiner of One Essex Court (his fraudsters Hollingworth and Glick QC in my policy #11 in Manifesto #3 the A5 brochure) one of the worst corruption cases since Robert Maxwell (Serio...

Good news for Kent: * the end of the Pleasurama BVI fraud - a stale leftover from The Gang of Four for a big pension payday of crooked councillors and civil servants (from my Mansifesto #1 and Manifesto #3 A5 version). Only Kolonel Latchford limping on as a turncoat and lame duck. A shame for Cardy though in financial trouble - let's hope KCC steps in to support a decent East Kent company. Shovel-ready projects could include: clearing the Pleasurama site for the end of the Summer and a public consultation on a beach park and icerink, clearing the last rubble and disused wind turbine at Richboro power station (a policy from my Manifesto #1) and removing the old tarmac from the 1970's Pegwell Bay old ferry port UNESCO site (my Manifesto #3). * The BHS Scandal with Philip Green and Lord Grabiner of One Essex Court (his fraudsters Hollingworth and Glick QC in my policy #11 in Manifesto #3 the A5 brochure) one of the worst corruption cases since Robert Maxwell (Serio...

Nestled at the corner of Tonle Sap Lake, Battambang is a Cambodian town in resurgence. Poised between the Thai border, now seeing rail connections into Poipet after the destruction of the Khmer Rouge years, and equidistant to Siem Reap, and the wonders of Angkor Wat, or the capital Phnom Penh. The latter now, as of this month, with the first scheduled rail-link to the coast and port at Sihanoukvile in 30 years. And amidst the rice basket and forests of Battambang Province is Battambang Town itself rippled by the River Sankhae and its four bridges. The Old Stone Bridge leading to the Governor’s Palace of 1905 built by the previous Thai administration, before French colonial rule took over until 1947 and Cambodian independence. The modern New Iron Bridge linking the river promenades and exercise areas to the hotel and restaurant areas. The Park Bridge through to the Russian market and commercial banks. And the New Stone Bridge to the modern hospital and river ferry to Phnom Penh. A ...

The British Summer may not be ideal, but it’s been a scorching few weeks of sport in Britain. In fact we seem to have entered a Golden Era for UK Sport - and Thailand and ASEAN. (Perhaps it's best, albeit unusual in the conference season and the MalaysiaRail event, for me to be quartered here in UK given the rains in Thailand). First off the sports grid though there’s Andy Murray winning the Wimbledon Men’s Final so officially becoming a Brit rather than a Scot. Something seems to have been put in the tea at Wimbledon, presumably nothing stronger than an extra sugar lump given the recent scandals in athletics and cycling, with Britain’s Heather Watson winning the Mixed Doubles. And Britain’s Gordon Reid becoming the first Wheelchair Tennis Men’s Singles Champion. Plus the World Cup of Tennis, the Davis Cup, underway with the UK defending the trophy against Serbia this week. While Wales ended 58 years in the football wilderness by reaching the semi-finals in UEFA Euro 2016. En...

Certainly the Summer exodus of refugees that we’ve seen in Europe in recent years has subsided. Yet the UNHCR confirms a world on the move with refugees reaching 65M up from 59M last year. Chatting with advertising friends, there’s a real need for agencies to deliver on the UNSDG30 goals and Common Ground themes and sub-themes such as refugees or consumption and cities. Food brands may well smack their lips at being involved with healthy eating or Fairtrade coffee, but refugees are to some extent the unwanted guests at the feast. Rolex for example are unlikely to support refugee programmes when there’s yacht sponsorships to be had – especially with Denmark now introducing a jewellery tax on refugees to allow them to bring in only £1,000 in cash or jewellery and the rest confiscated. A surprising move by a nation with a great tradition of liberalism and support - but not unlike the Germany of the 1930’s and Jewish exodus after Kristallnacht. Almost 50% of refugees are from hell-ho...