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  Alexander
  
  So, let me get this right then: because YOU want a church restored to its former glory, every truck coming through the port has to pay a tax of £50 and every private motor vehicle has to pay £5.00 tax, all because YOU don't approve of lottery funding? Have you stopped to consider that YOUR beliefs are costing everybody else a lot of money, that British hauliers are being driven out of business on an almost daily basis because of the scandalous rates of tax and duty on fuel in this country without you adding to their problems by adding on an extra £50 each time they pass through the port? That all passengers already pay a fee to the DHB included in the price of the ticket? That 10 miles up the road the ferries have severe competition for the cross-channel business?
  
  Ultimately it's the belief that all these considerations should be binned because you want a church done up that I find horribly selfish, that you wouldn't entertain lottery funding for what I assume are religious reasons. Please remember, at the end of the day, it's no longer a church and also that your religion shouldn't be at the expense of evryone else who may not share your beliefs. BTW, these comments come from a committed Christian who simply fails to see your argument as anything other than fundamentally flawed, contra to the interests of the town which has many priorities before restoring an old church, and - above all else - incredibly self-centred.

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