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Howard, in reply to your question how UKIP would cope with the 40% spending cuts in DDC, and the spending cuts in the Town and County Council (Reg pointed out recently on the front page what the County Council cuts amount to, and also edited it in the local newspaper), the best answer I can give, and which regards specifically Dover District, is that UKIP would not approve the urbanisation plans for Dover District until such time as we have our own local population increase.
This post may become long, but it is essentially a matter of avoiding catastrophe.
If the over six thousand houses were built in Whitfield, and the others that are planned for Deal and Sholden, even over a period of decades, it would mean Dover's population constantly increasing through migration, adding to any local population increase.
My opinion is that DDC planned on getting large Council-tax revenues from new houses and shops and supermarkets, but tens of thousands more people would be living here, and DDC probably hasn't calculated how much more would need to be spent on services to cater for so many more people.
And DDC probably hasn't even bothered asking the question how many more cars would be steaming down Barton Road and Frith Road, past the schools there, and on down Maison Dieu Road and into Town.
Did you know that, according to the Dover Express, the residents in River live on average 7 years longer than those in Dover Town? That explains about everything!
We also have the motorway (as I call it) passing through Townwall and Snargate Streets as it is.
We would have by far more unemployment than at present, and how DDC has calculated the new spending regime for the local Councils to cope with so many more people, including the County Council's budget to finance more schools, is a question that they will not answer, because they have never bothered bringing these subjects up.
I did in my representation to DDC, however, which got there by the 29th November 2010!
The Tory DDC went hand in hand with New Labour Government to rush for housing-planning approval, where-as Charlie MP is strictly against these catastrophic urbanisation graphics of our limited Country-side. New Labour was voted out, but left our Country's Treasury in an awful state, for which now we must pay the price by way of enormous spending cuts and massive reductions in the number of employed people in the public sector.
The student protests are one result of this.
But it is not all the fault of the present Government, as that what New Labour left was a total debt-ridden state of affairs, and Gov. is actually trying to reduce the annual budget deficit by half, meaniong that the total State debts will still go up even with all these spending cuts.
Both Tory and Labour District Councillors are still immagining that they can go merrily ahead with these planning projects in Dover District, despite Charlie's total disagreement, and he is a member of Parliament.
The DDC Councillors should not assume that the people who voted Charlie will all go now and vote Tory and Labour on the 16th December, be it for District, Town or County.
I sincerely hope that the people see the reasons in UKIP's local policy for Dover. We are representing the interests of the local people, according to sane principles, and not preparing the way for tens of thousands of migrants from London and the poisoning off of Dover Town in never-ending car-fumes of tens of thousands of more people daily transitting to town to go to the supermarket.