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Recently, I have reminded the Department for Transport on several occasions that there was a public consultation process, supplying copy of my first reply from them in March 2010.
My opinion of the DPPT, which at the time of the public consultation did not exist, is that they are publicly implying there was no public consultation on Dover Harbour Board, but that there are only two options, either the DHB privatisation proposal or the DPPT proposal.
This is misleading, and their parish poll was also misleading to this effect.
I do firmly believe the local MP has tried to derail the public consultation through parliamentary connections on a political basis.
What is at stake here? The whole essence of Democracy as our State envisaged it at the time of the public consultation.
As far as I am concerned as a British citizen, DPPT, a non existing entity at the time of the consultation, created itself and then tried to throw me out of the public consultation, claiming to be the sole alternative to the DHB privatisation proposals.
This will have very far-reaching consequences if it is allowed to go ahead, as evidently an MP has tried to do in a democratic process through political interference.
In this regard, he also broke his electoral promise, which had been to campaign for Dover Harbour Board to remain a State asset.
In my representation, I recognised the local councils - DTC, DDC and KCC - as the legal representative institutions of our local community.
The local MP has publicly claimed that the DPPT is representative of Dover's Community.
He should not think that, by politically moving behind the scenes in Parliament, this will go unchallenged from a legal and constitutional point of view.