Manston Pickle

Posting information and updates on the pickle that is the site of the former Manston airport. Wanting jobs, regeneration, new opportunites and new ideas.

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@cmackinlay @RSPManston Sad indictment of you as Ramsgate’s representative and advocate. Do you see #Ramsgate as the necessary sacrifice or do you simply not care? This seems a very easy answer for many. Or are you chasing the votes you think this may win you?

[Slug 🍃💚🍃 Vegan @Slugslime2]

And yet you support the opening of a new air CARGO hub at #manston in #Ramsgate. A filthy, noisy, highly polluting scheme that will damage the health and wellbeing of local residents with planes just 500ft above homes. How's the airline (MAMA) you have registered going ? #COP27

[RamsgateActionGroup @RamsgateAG]

@dan_friend86 @DoverDC @RSPManston Does one qualify for this committee through ignorance of facts, science & expertise? How’d you feel on role-reversal; if you were a councillor in Ramsgate, potentially suffering from the detrimental effects.

Sandwich will quickest under water due to climate change.🤫 @uk_karen

[Tricia Austin @tricia_ramsgate]

@dan_friend86 @DoverDC @RSPManston Have you read the 12 independent reports, incl from @PINSgov, saying there's no need for this, the jobs predictions are grossly inflated, jobs will be lost in the visitor economy, it'll damage the climate & have 'significant adverse effects' on Ramsgate's 40,000+ people?

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@dan_friend86 @DoverDC @RSPManston What evidence is there of it being important or unique? Every independent expert report says it’s neither. Why do you believe, as a councillor, it is? What evidence have you seen? #nomanstonairport

[Slug 🍃💚🍃 Vegan @Slugslime2]

It appears from your blog, you live in #margate? Forgive me if I am wrong. If you lived in #Ramsgate you'd be fighting against a new air CARGO at #manston. It appears the older generation of #Thanet are supporters ignoring the future re #climatechange. No jobs on a dead #planet!

[Climate First 🍃💚🍃 @ClimateFirst2]

Hi everyone, could you all send @BDBpitmans a tweet asking them to get their client @RSPManston to pay their legal bill to Jenny Dawes for the last JR. We need to embarrass these people into paying up. We the taxpayer gave them £8.5m thanks to @SirRogerGale so they have the money

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L And that’s your response? Not really cobbled together was it as it had to report specifically in the situation post Brexit and Covid. Neither of which featured in previous reports. And what is your comment on all those other expert reports?

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

Despite the huge impact of Covid on our visitor economy,we still did better than the national picture. People want to visit #Thanet. They don’t want or need a 24/7 airport that will wreck our tourism & local jobs. https://t.co/R0ohoJyBRB #nocargohubairport #manston

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L Show me one by an independent aviation expert that wasn’t. Why did the Planning Inspectorate’s own Examining Authority recommend refusing the DCO? Why did the SoS for Transport’s own Independent Assessor recommend it be refused?

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L You’ve heard of greenwashing?

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@coyle2L ??

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L @TheNanStevens Uh? Have you read RSP’s document? ‘During the night time period it is forecast that there will typically be 7 ATMs.’

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L We must be talking to different people.There’s no land of milk & honey.Britain is in a shocking state. We need to improve it drastically. Improve provision of services.Try talking up our town,our villages,our coast,our prospects. An airport isn’t the answer to any of our problems

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L There’s huge potential ( and in reality) for green jobs both locally and nationally. Plus in our visitor economy, in our health service which is crying out for staff, in a growing digital economy. We need to support excellent education for all locally.

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L You’ve been sold a pup with the ‘good qualifications’ story that RSP are promoting. Which jobs specifically do you think are going to promote these qualifications? How many will require good qualifications? How would you ensure local people got these jobs? ( you couldn’t)

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L Would love to see your data/evidence on the demographics and transient populations in housing stock in Thanet. Where do you get it from?

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L @TheNanStevens Uh? Have you read RSP’s document? ‘During the night time period it is forecast that there will typically be 7 ATMs.’

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L Affordable housing is definitely an issue. How will the airport help this? Most airport jobs are low-paid, even any that actually emerge. Makes it all the harder for people to afford mortgages or rent.

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@dave_daveglucas @Slugslime2 @Kent_Online You do realise that there’s an application in for another judicial review?

[Manston Pickle @ManstonPickle]

@Coyle2L @TheNanStevens Yes, it is all in the documentation- including the requirement for night flights!