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Gary, there are a number of factors to consider.
The DPPT option requires the sale of the Port.
It envisages the Port being in debt for 40 years through the emission of bonds - not only to pay the Treasury £200 million, but also to build a T2, as stated in a recent post by Neil. So the borrowing would just go on and on...
It would mean outsourcing the institutionalised administrations of the Council-defined communities to DPPT. Even though this group recognises Dover District as an administrative area - hence their decision that only residents within this boundary can be members - and acknowledges the Town Council - hence the Parish poll obtained through DTC - yet it would supplant the District and Town Councils and become a new administrative body running the Port and local regeneration.
Opting for DPPT would mean outsourcing democracy and community rights to this self-appointed organisation:
No member of the community who isn't a member of DPPT could have any say in the future regeneration of our area.
All decision regards the Port and local prosperity would depend on eight directors, who are not elected by the Communities as directors of the Port and local regeneration, but are self-appointed, such as Charlie Elphicke the current MP for Dover and Deal and David Foley the leader of the Dover Chamber of Commerce.
These people, as directors of DPPT, would claim to represent the whole community, while excluding anyone who is not a paid-up member of their organisation from any say in anything regards our future prosperity.
This is unconstitutional!
Furthermore, what they propose to the whole District is a one-off payment of £50 million pounds of borrowed money, and once that is gone, there would just be the annual dividends of £1 million.
