I was very pleased to see the Isle of Thanet Gazette has been asking some questions about aspects of the China Gateway project raised on various blogs including this one.
I have made it clear to all of the local papers that they can use anything they want from this blog with or without quoting it as a source, with the big issues like the China Gateway it is important that as many people know as much about what is going on as possible.
One very serious question this raises is should this come before planning before the police have finished their investigation, a developer drafting letters for TDC while TDC are judging their planning application, seems unwise.
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Friday 8 August 2008
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Speaking as somebody who is accustomed to being paid for my writing skills, when I see great big globs of my blog reproduced on the front page of the local rag I can't help feeling a little rancour. After all, you don't give your books away for nothing, do you?
ReplyDeleteNonetheless I'm pleased that the Gazunder has followed up this important story, and full marks to Rebecca for having more b*lls than other local papers I could mention, who had the story but, er, bottled out.
It all makes good headlines, but at the end of the day it appears to be a storm in a tea cup!
ReplyDeleteI bought my garden gate from B & Q and it is a China Gate. I think everyone should have a China Gate!
ReplyDeletePeople are jealous of the Chinese because they have the nice gates, that is what lies behind all this
ReplyDeleteMy tea cup is China- so is my gate nah nah nah nah nah
ReplyDeleteJust coz Dick lives on top of an east cliff it does not mean that his gate needs to come from China. But it is the in thing these days to have a China Gate, alone with a Tea set bought from Gateways
ReplyDeletenow you are being silly, next you will be scaremongering
ReplyDeleteI like reading the adverts in YourThanet due to the fact they won't print ...........
ReplyDeleteRichard are you saying Tom Bet ya has no b****?
I like reading the adverts in YourThanet due to the fact they won't print ...........
ReplyDeleteI love reading the Thanet Extra because the quality of the paper is smooth and does not hurt my fingers
ReplyDeleteWhat does IQ mean?
ReplyDeleteIts means that you are posh
ReplyDeleteIQ if you have it means you were born outside thanet
ReplyDeleteI was born outside of Thanet, I was born in Margate
ReplyDeleteWhat news is being made up today? - this is such fun!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHave the Tories met this week as you said they were going to, Michael? Did Councillors Moores, Cameron and co. mount a challenge to the leadership? Or has it all blown over - or been swept under a carpet?
ReplyDelete12.29 The rumour is that they have agreed to await the outcome of the police enquiry, however now the media have reported the issue and as more media are bound to follow it up, I would say the position will become more and more untenable.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the leadership goes I am not certain that any of them would want the job or would have time to do it if they did, consider that the only way a leader could make the job tolerable would be by making major changes in the way the council is run, something that the senior council officers would oppose.
What we have now is a public scandal that I know I wouldn’t want to be associated with in any way and I would imagine others must feel the same, people have their careers and futures to consider.
Richard in local history there is a long tradition of a very small return for ones writing in 1736 when Lewis’s history of Thanet came out he got 100 copies of the book but had to pay for the paper and binding, there was no other payment, so we are all rather used to this.
Mike
ReplyDeletewhy all the talk about carpet shops? that has nothing to do with the China Gateway!
Sue R
Moores is less
ReplyDeleteSue R. The carpet quotation is for the leader of the councils carpet shop to carpet the developer’s offices.
ReplyDeleteWhats wrong with that Mr Childs?
ReplyDeleteSmall difference here, Michael, in that this isn't history, it's journalism. Rebecca, Tom, et al presumably get paid to be journalists, so lifting bits directly from the blogs is like being paid for cutting and pasting IMO.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong, though, I'm glad they ran the story and it probably took several deep breaths to come to that decision.
Speaking without my ECR hat on and as someone who has journalistic accolades on his CV, it's probably about time this story was nailed properly. I'm off to do some digging...
Richard nice to know you are off to do some digging and yes it is very good that they ran the story. I imagine as more of the media take up the story you may get a chance of some remuneration. 19.31 I don’t believe that I said there was anything wrong with it, just explaining what it meant to Sue.
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