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Alex, that sentence does not state that I believe DPPT to be the community, nor could that meaning be inferred by a reasonable person when reading the full context of that post. I repeat again for your easy understanding, DPPT is not the community, no body politic, no one organisation is the community. However, dispute this as you wish, DPPT is representative of the community and, agree or not as you will, once the DPPT proposal is adopted and membership has risen to 3000, 4000, 5000 plus as it will do over time, the port will, in effect be owned by and accountable to the community.
Howard, funding the costs of the bid is not now and will never come from the tenners. Bid documents, due diligence and legal costs associated with mounting the campaign are either predicated on funds contingent (no success, no payment, a sufficiently large number of substantial law, accountancy, banking and technical consultancy firms are sufficiently confident that a DPPT bid will be successful that they have been prepared to sign such contracts), or from individual donations made by supporters of the DPPT and members of the board.