Entries in CCC (84)
CCC's Notable Achievements in Herne Bay
Aug 18, 2010 at 15:00 Marks out of ten for achievement? Here's what CCC proudly list on their site as their achievements in Herne Bay since 2005. I'm not churlish by nature, but it doesn't seem like a lot.
CCC, Herne Bay | Keywords: Development Electric Ferret: looks harder, finds more
Jul 20, 2010 at 23:43 I recently commissioned Zorba the Geek to find a better way to search CCC's bewildering website. Behold the fruits of his labours: the Electric Ferret. Take it for a spin...
Click the CCC logo and search their website for your name, or your street name, or whatever. Then click the Electric Ferret, and run the same search. Now play 'spot the difference'. Top tip: if you're searching for a phrase, put it in double quotes - Beach Street would find all the beaches and streets, but "Beach Street" would find just that street.
CCC Politician calls for depopulation. World trembles.
Jul 15, 2010 at 23:30 The Lib Dems have accused you of being a climate change denier. Is that true?
It's not. And denier is an insult because of Holocaust deniers. As a geologist I know about ancient climates and where the atmosphere has been going for hundreds and thousands of years. Yes, there is an impact that man is having on the climate but there’s not much we can do about it, because we're looking at the symptom and not the cause, which is that there are too many people on the planet using up the natural resources. While people are trying to save trees, they aren’t looking at the population issue. Man is affecting the planet on such a scale because of sheer numbers, and that's what needs focusing on.
HB Times interview with Cllr Gilbey, 15th July 2010
If you would like to find out more about the thoughtful elimination of the human race, and Cllr Gilbey isn't available, have a look at The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. They advocate phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed, arguing that "crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense".
Myself, I think that smarter actions, rather than fewer people, would be a better way of being "less dense".
CCC | Keywords: John Gilbey, Website Politician calls politician "political". Nation laughs, yawns.
Jul 15, 2010 at 23:27 You have ferocious exchanges with Lib Dem leader Alex Perkins. What do you think of him?
Alex is the opposite of me, in that he's totally political and everything he does is with an eye to the next election. I speak as I see and try to be honest, with the objective of getting things done, and Alex can be economical with the truth sometimes. On a personal level I have no problem with him, and I admire the fact he can talk the hind leg off a donkey and sound plausible. He has difficulties with his group, because they are all split and my group isn’t.
HB Times interview with Cllr Gilbey, 15th July 2010
CCC | Keywords: Alex Perkins, John Gilbey Nothing to do with jollies...
Jul 8, 2010 at 23:35 
Andrew is the patron saint of Greece, Prussia, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Ukraine, and sports-themed regional promotion. At the St Andrews Open (a golf thing) our plucky council workers will be promoting us for all they're worth, but it may be a waste of their time and our money, which is why there's a row over the Council's £40,000 golf trip...
Unthinking so-and-so's
Jul 8, 2010 at 22:31 The seafront of our seaside town has been blighted with a sprouting of parking meters. A bad move, for bad reasons, with unintended consequences and a hidden fact.
Hobby politicians
Jul 8, 2010 at 21:20 Well, here's a thought - "Councillors are transient amateurs whose chosen hobby is to play at local politics" - and as a result, it is the councillors (not the rest of us) who should foot the bill.
High maintenance councillors pocket £386k
Jun 17, 2010 at 21:00 
Expenses, expenses - dontcha just love them? No suggestion here of unseemly duck houses or whatnot, I believe this is all above-board, as-per-normal stuff. It all mounts up pretty quickly, far exceeding the projected savings from museum closures, for example. But it's the salaries that bug me. And Mr Parris has a point.
CCC | Keywords: Alex Perkins, Budget, John Gilbey, Julia Seath, Peter Vickery-Jones No expenses spared
Jun 17, 2010 at 20:33 The nitty-gritty in all its unadorned nitty-grittiness. Here are our councillors' expenses for 2009 - find out who's chatty, who's got wanderlust, and who's just very, very special. I've corrected a couple of errors in the table as it appeared in the HB Times, and re-jigged it as an Excel spreadsheet. There's a link at the bottom of the article for you to download it.
