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  Mark Mason, brilliantly put! Absolutely bang on. I particularly agree with your point about letting the Queen see Dover for what it really is.
  This could be an ideal opportunity to make a stand and expose this long-standing situation which has gone on and on since after the last war.
  It could be Dover's own "occupy" moment. A slap in the face to the idea of papering over the cracks till the bandwagon moves on and forgets us. It's an ideal opportunity to say "Stuff this, this is all wrong and we want no part of this circus".
  If and when the cameras come to the town expecting the residents to spout platitudes about the wonderful Olympics and the sporting dream and isn't it great that dear old Queenie (who I have the utmost respect for by the way) this particular resident will gladly tell them to point their cameras away from the director's approved screenshots and take them for a walk to the places we have to look at every day. Buildings falling apart, derelict properties and gaps between buildings left for the past 25 years close to the town square.
  Maybe then someone will sit up and take notice.
  Oh! I nearly forgot it's an ideal opportunity to show people how the powers that be consider the installation of a giant telly in the middle of town is their idea of improvement and regeneration.

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