I feel it would be a service to the wider public and to people from outside of Thanet to document the general opinion of "us lot in Thanet" on a number of key subjects. For this reason I will be looking for blog posts from notable and/or articulate bloggers as well as additional sources. Hopefully I will be able to create an overview of the "pro" and "anti" feelings in the area.

I will then create an article on the subject pointing readers to the posts I have identified and attempting to score the balance of opinion to gage favour or disfavour. Almost 50% of you will disagree with my conclusion and that's good and natural and a great reason for you to put forth a good argument as to a different conclusion on your blog or in the comments section of the post.

(I will also look at videos especially those with a textual transcript.)

I hope to be looking at the following subjects:

• The Turner Centre
• Westwood Cross
• The recent behaviour of Sandy Ezekiel
• Margate Harbour Arm
• The China Gateway
• The Scenic Railway

I will particularly favour posts that do any of the following things (the more the merrier):

• Explain the reasoning behind your opinion
• Cite sources such as newspaper articles or other paper (off line) publications
• Link to sources
• Keep the offensive language minimal
• Make me understand your position even if I disagree
• Contain well articulated opinions from commenters (especially named as opposed to anon)

I will be using any images that are representative of the debate so long as (a) I can find permission to download the image or (b) the image is on flickr or some other image share server with a set of permissions that allows me to display it.