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Alexander, please see my post #236.
"DPPT have consistently said throughout that this is the case and have never suggested otherwise. I've spent a great deal of time and effort encouraging everyone to read the DHB proposal as submitted to the Minister and make individual and group submissions whilst the consultation period remains open. However, we also want people to know that there is an alternative to privatisation that will remove the future of the port from the avarice of executives, national and regional politicians and place it in the ownership of the people of Dover and the surrounding area in perpetuity whilst allowing the port to access the funds that it requires to invest in development."
Effectively, we have reached those final knock-out stages; if DHB get a 'minded to approve' then they will be in control of who buys the port and will dismiss the only extant bid for the port as a non-conforming offer and rule it out of further participation because it offers MORE ownership, MORE benefit and a truly ENDURING stake in the future of the port for the community than their proposal allows and, in addition, does not give executives and senior managers significant amounts of cash (in the form of shares) as a benefit from embedded value to which the current crop of execs have personally contributed very littlle.
If DHB get a 'not minded to approve' then their privatisation model is dead and they are out of the final.
Being aware of alternative, costed and funded, means to secure the future of the port and what it can offer the port's stakeholders is very helpful when people are making their submissions to the Minister on the DHB proposal and request.
My job is to promote DPPT's alternative so that people making submissions know that they do not have to settle for the insignificant and ephemeral stake that DHB are offering and we can then try, through submissions, to ensure that Westminster politicians do not sell our future to whoever and that we get a 'not minded to approve' decision on the DHB proposal, allowing the peoples of Dover and the District to take control of their own destinies through empowered ownership of the most significant economic, historical and social asset in this area.
