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  DHB have singularly failed to create an enduring and significant influence and stake by the community in the future strategic direction and development of the port and the DfT, Minister for Ports and Shipping and the Secretary of State are all on the record as saying that no request for privatisation under the 1991 Act will get approval unless there are such provisions which go beyond the cosmetic. This will be demonstrated through submissions, analysis and representations from ourselves and many other stakeholders during this 'consulltation' phase.
  
  DPPT was not formed or constituted for personal gain and none of the Directors is in the least bit interested in personal aggrandisement or advancement. The DHB scheme is bad in the medium to long term for the port, bad for the ferry companies, bad for the port's workers, bad for the general cargo operators and bad for the communities of Dover and its surroundings. In the unlikely event that the ephemeral nature of DHB's provisions escapes the notice of the decision Minister and the DHB are allowed to proceed with a sale to remote private equity interests, it is unlikely that 1) there will be any positions for DPPT members in the new owner's structure or 2) any prominent member of the DPPT would endorse a venture against which they have campaigned for so long and so hard by joining it (certainly I, for one, will never endorse the sale of the Port of Dover to remote private equity interests).
  
  Throughout the remaining time between now and the announcement of a decision I will be utilising every legal means that I know of to ensure that the DHB scheme is unsuccessful and that the future of the port is secured for good and all from the whims of politicians and executives and that it becomes owned by the peoples of Dover District in perpetuity.

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