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Why cannot we include the present Leisure Centre site in the Burlington House development where besides the new Leisure centre there could be a Ten-pin bowling alley complex which includes indoor soccer and cricket facilities for our youth, Cinemas? And a shopping Mall for all, without the junk-food outlets. Working people are under pressure today to find activities which include the family environment from the old to the young, especially so the young who are struggling to cope.
Dover is fast becoming a town of unacceptable traffic congestion. It needs a bypass of some sort either a tunnel or lanes added to the Jubilee Way to funnel the traffic quickly out to bypass town. If the government can contemplate spending five to six billion on refurbishing the Parliament buildings it can contemplate spending the taxpayers' money on the Gateway to England, which to me, as a suffering Dover resident, is more important than the subsidised comfort of pampered politicians, over 800 titled who are unelected, who never seem to be troubled by AUSTERITY!
It is about time the people came first, as it is the people who pay most of the taxes, and it is the people who should be benefiting from them. The present government must not be allowed to put their pet projects first before the needs of the people. They must not be allowed to override the County Councils' decisions as to other decisions, such as Fracking for gas. The latter is a democratic decision taken by those who have voted their respective County Councillors in and those decisions must be respected, or we may as well have a Dictator running the country...which I hope will never happen in my lifetime.
I do not hesitate to ask why we need a central government anyway. The democratically elected County Councils in Britain, which I believe includes Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, working together, would do the job just as well, or in some cases even better... There must be billions spent on politicians we do not need. If firms can cut down on workers and implement zero/hour contracts, we the people can cut down on over the top politicians... That way we will only have politicians interested in democracy for Britain and not those interested only in their own creature comforts.
I would rather see a good all-round Leisure Centre in the Dover District than a traffic gridlock that can only become worse. Dover belongs to Britain. Its history says so and that history must be respected by those who would wish to turn it into a traffic island roundabout, against the wishes of its people.
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