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  Bob or his successors if things stay as they are and anything which has politicians (local, regional or National) as the controlling owners becomes vulnerable to sale in times of hardship. When we rely on our representatives, they have been elected to office for a large variety of reasons on a wide swathe of issues and representative democracy will not necessarily see them elected due to support for local government ownership of the port or deselected for selling the port, so they cannot be trusted as guardians of the port's future. New legislation to require them to retain ownership in perpetuity can always be changed or repealed if the government of the day deems it expedient to do so. So, any form of ownership that leaves the future in the hands of politicians and port executives will inevitably mean that at some point in the future there will come a time when either us or our successors will have to fight this fight again. The only forms of ownership that truly protect the port are ones which give a direct say on the port's ownership to the largest possible number of local individuals who can express their view on the port's ownership directly as a single issue.

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