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Roger, couple of points regarding your interesting posting.
Firstly, no, I wouldn't be prepared to pay more council tax unless I had very hard evidence that our MP and County Councillors had done everything in their power to get money from those bodies first. KCC is sitting on buckets of our cash and as I've made clear elsewhere, I find that totally unacceptable. So I say again, NO, to more Council Tax for ANY reason.
Secondly, I think you are wrong to suggest we need to smarted up the town first. If we take that route, nothing will get done. What we need to do first is get the attractions OPEN! If tourism is our lifeblood and way forward, we must have places such as the The Grand Shaft, Dover Museum, Dover Castle, Western Heights, Roman Painted House, St Edmunds Chapel OPEN. Then we can truly market something to the visitor that will bring them to us for business.
Proof of the OPEN concept is Kearsney tea room. Once you'd never know if you could get a cup of tea or coca cola when going to the park, yet, since I've been home and going to Kearsney every other day, the tea room has been OPEN and busy. Maybe if the cafe at the end of the pier had adopted an OPEN policy it would have been profitable too?