I have to ask, then, why comment at all?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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beat me to it.
maybe vic is having one of his "i know something you don't days"?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Not so,I think the report by the DOVER Express is a fair one of the meeting ,and I have already said on a post what I said. Some of you that did not go might just buy the Express and read what others members of the public said.
And when we have, we will, I am sure, make an informed comment based on facts and opinions. I don't see myself telling you that I have nothing to tell you.................
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have nothing to say on this matter...for once
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Just thought you all might like to know I did not attend the meeting and I did not read the local rag either so I also have nothing to add.
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Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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I think I will have a cup of coffee and a nap...................yeah, nothing to add to that.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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There was no need for any of that,I was asked to give a report on the meeting on post 13 and that is what I done.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Vic's poorly leg has made him loose his sense of humour.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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And so it was ,I am just a Grumpy old Git at times (I will take it off.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a new twist in the saga, the chief executive of p & o ferries helen deeble has written to the seretary of state for transport (philip hammond) criticising the plans of dover harbour board and extolling the virtues of the peoples port proposals.
she goes on to say that the plans do not deal with the issues of local ownership and stakeholder influence.
it seems that the ferry operators have not contacted p & o and the others about the revised plans.
interestingly enough the consultation period ended yesterday, the letter from p & o was dated the 24th of june.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just received an anonymous text saying that the dppt proposal had suceeded, has anyone else heard any news?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Unless the text came from the Secretary of State for Transport, I think you can disregard it, Howard. There are still many months of hard grind before we succeed.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry Peter your P/P port was never a real runner.
And on what evidence are you basing that?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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By going to most of all the meetings and the loan of over £300million to make the p/p coming about with that kind of overheads it was a non-starter,and time will show that by the end of the year.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Vic - there are some of us who understand these things and fully support the Peoples Port as a viable scheme to be financed in the same way as many very successful businesses are. Taking your lead we would not have any successful businesses and would probably still be living in the middle ages.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Barry you might be eating your own words soon,I do not understand your thinking on this one ,you are in the money market and make a businesses of it,if you did not know me and I walked in to your office and said,I wish to buy the port of Dover I have no cash please can you get me a loan of £300million to start the ball rolling I will not be puting any of my own funding in it,so I need 100% loan,you would tell me to go and sit in a dark room till i got over it.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The way I feel at the moment I think I'd rather go Vics way then continually selling my soul in the name of progress.
People profess progress as the only way to ''improve'' our lives but is it really?
There is a lot to be said for the high moral principles of the past.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)