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MARGATE REGENERATION GAME

Fresh initiative, from local government, yet another regeneration specialist has been appointed for three years to revitalise Margate, this time we are informed by the Gazette being paid £50,000 a year salary .

Quite frankly Renewal or Regeneration is a pretty much the same thing to me, but we have two local council departments, dealing with what I would imagine is the same territory.

Just out of curiosity, I thought I would ring both departments to find out, how many people were actually employed in these two departments by Thanet council, not surprisingly this was gone four on Friday, after all, both phones were answered with a recorded message I assume coincidentally that everyone was taking annual leave.

It is amazing, how much our council have to literally giveaway. The minimum any of us pay for council services, assuming we go out to work, is £25 a week, many for the minimum wage or just over, and yet we are supposed to meekly except that council employees are worth more than double in some cases the average Thanet wage.

Now it looks like the money comes in the main, from the South East England Development Agency,for the latest recruit, but even so, as taxpayers it's coming out of our pocket. Thanet District Council regularly advertises mediocre jobs in the plus £30,000 bracket, salaries that probably are fairly rare in the private sector, and without the amazing index-linked pensions.

Now if I had any say in a matter, I would save the money being paid for the new programmes director at Margate Renewal Partnership, and with the 50 grand salary I would then maybe twice during the week give out £250 to two genuine shoppers in the high-street and on Saturday's give a another £500 away again at two genuine shoppers. I am pretty sure that this would increase foot traffic in the high street Margate with the minimum of bull....