No, not Greenwich this time. Find another thread Mayor.
Manston Airport-Corruption
My mate is looking at setting up a non-political party to oust the current (alleged) thieving gits who are happy to take backhanders (allegedly) to sell off Manston airport to build social housing. Thanet council (Margit, Ramsgit, Boadstairs etc) are accused of being the most corrupt council outside of East London, allegedly, though with some convicted and imprisoned, it is not just alleged but a matter of fact, allegedly. They have built infrastructure for a ferry company and supported them financially, then the ferry company wound themselves up, after taking the councils money with them, allegedly. They have done the same thing with Pfizer, a huge multinational pharmaceutical company who they built plenty of infrastructure for only for the company to reduce the site, and now they seem to be lining the pockets of the owner of Stagecoach, allowing them to sell the airport and build on the site, if allowed.
There was a public meeting last week, which not one councillor attended, though the two local MP's did. Which says a lot about the local council and councillors.
The local people are generally not interested in politics, they have seen corruption down the years and have got used to it, but there are plenty of DFL's (down from London) that will not put up with corruption, so times they are a changing, beware councillors.
Anyone know of a more corrupt council in Kent?
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Doing it on a disused airsite that no one appears to be able to make run successfully, appears to be a simple solution.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-21632631
I suspect you need to speak to a Local Councillor to get the full picture for Housing demand in Thanet. However, I suspect it's greater than the demand for a 'regional' airport that is completely under utilised because no one wants to fly from there.
Do you want the contact details of one?
Funny how in a supposedly free country we are so tentative and nervous about accusing the organisations we elect and bankroll of being corrupt.
Starved of central government funding, most local government offices have changed from a body of public servants into mini-corporations with their own vocabulary of 1980s management-speak whose sole intention is to meet their so called "statutory obligation to maximise income". This means becoming property speculators with publicly owned assets, turning half the bloody country into an exorbitant car park patrolled by paramilitary style fascists and competing directly with the independent local businesses that pay their wages.
They are destroying town centres in favour of out of town mega malls owned of by overseas institutional investors. A decent investigative journalist would only have to spend about 5 minutes in any planning department to realise they are all bent. Mr Smith is on his fourth appeal for his 10ft garden shed but a 500 hectare shopping, residential and casino complex is no problem Mr Arab/Russian/Chinese consortium with the cheque book open.
Why is every town in England occupied by the same US-style shops/fast food joints owned by the same company?
The worry is no-one cares and the only saving grace for democracy is that their damage is limited because most are so incompetent and so eager to leave the building by 4pm to beat the traffic.
Come the revolution..