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    Mr Vic, I have laid everything on the line for this and, since December 2009, this entire process has been continuous, it hasn't stopped, we are still in the same process of determining the long term future of the port. So I've not lost it.

    Howard, the referendum is not definitely on yet.

    The one we had in 2011 was limited to the parish of Dover and was about rejecting the private equity sale as then proposed by DHB (who never referred to their offer as being a community port, only the £10m as being foundation to the Port of Dover Community Trust (which was not a community owned port or community port) as part of their private equity sale) and supporting a transfer of the port to community ownership instead.

    The Minister and his officials, having heard at first hand from a variety of local interests and representatives, have returned to London to put all the pieces together and formulate what needs to happen with the port in order to deliver the things that I and many others in the town and district have been campaigning for for years. It would then be vital to ensure that the plan proposed by the Minister is acceptable to the majority of people in the District (bearing in mind the objections raised in the past by various people (Mr Vic included) about DPPT not being representative of the views of the majority, despite all the evidence that they are) and the best way to ascertain such approval for the plan is via a district wide referendum.

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