Saturday, 12 December 2009

Thanet District Council’s propaganda machine goes off the wall.

Of all of the bizarre press releases I have received from TDC this one has to take the biscuit see http://thanetpress.blogspot.com/2009/12/ramsgate-cliff-face.html this is a picture of the repair work that they say is due to start in the new year, it appears to have started before they released the press release.


This next picture is of the base of one of the facades support pillars resting not on the 2 metre thick foundations as I have been assured it should be, but on a pile of crumbling chalk.

Silly me thinking that I had investigated the problems with the cliff façade when the council told me that they weren’t going to until 2011 see http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2009/11/royal-sands-development-how-dangerous.html

Oh yes here are this mornings pictures and a few from some other time that seem to have crept in somehow, loads of the Queens Head as I am doing a cover for a book on Thanet’s pubs today.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/blogpicts129/id6.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/blogpicts129/id9.htm
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4 comments:

  1. Bertie BigglesDecember 12, 2009 5:54 pm

    Michael, well done. To have started work immediately, as a result of what they found ( press release should have been worded 'what was pointed out to us by Michael Child') implies something urgent. What of course is not mentioned, is that just having spent £1,000,000 of tax-payers money and not having supervised the work done properly, the tax-payer now has to meet the cost of further work?

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  2. John HolyerDecember 12, 2009 8:01 pm

    Well done Michael.

    If you continue to photograph this dangerous cliff face and thereby highlight TDC misdeeds; then I expect they will consider you as a target for a Sect 44. You know how precious and self regarding TDC can be. Frankly, I blame their officials.

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  3. Matt B (Thanet Star)December 12, 2009 9:13 pm

    I have long failed to understand how an organisation the size of TDC can continue so long without an awareness that the feedback the command centre gets and the commands it issues are at best an approximation of what is actually happening. In fact if TDC were a person we'd probably give them DLA and a full time nurse.

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  4. Michael ChildDecember 13, 2009 11:21 am

    Bertie what worries me is that this will be more of a cover up of the defects than getting the whole thing to a standard suitable for building a large residential development 4metres away from it.

    JH I have had a few bizarre run-ins with government agencies, but think my card may be marked now so that they have decided to avoid confrontation.

    Matt I believe it is more surgery that would be required.

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.