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My representation to the Secretary of State for Transport proposes the introduction of port-tolls in all British commercial ports.
They are looking into it, and Kent County Council support the measure and are also asking the Government to introduce port tolls on all foreign lorries and on all cars and buses.
My proposal didn't actually make a distinction between foreign and Britisah lorries, though.
However, the increase proposed for lorries, £50, is to minimal to affect the retail prices of transported goods, as the increase would be on average about one quareter of a pence per kilogramme of transported goods.
A port toll would be, to an extent, the equivalent of a road toll. The revenues would be distributed between local councils, including the County, and the national Treasury.
Therefore, in Kent, Dover and the Channel Tunnel would each be increasing their daily revenues by hundreds of thousands of pounds.
DHB are also aware of the proposal, as a copy of the representation went to DHB.
Adding to that, KCC have proposed making sure that foreign lorries do not carry to Britiain a 3 day supply of petrol in "belly-tanks", so that they would be obliged to purchase petrol in Britain, which would bring in further enormous revenues to the State Treasury.
As for the EU, forget it!