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    No - Melissa, no promises would have been broken at all.

    Lets go back to the situation pre-election.

    The sale of the Port, with the Goldsmith scheme, just really needed a signature from a Minister to go ahead. If there was no change of government then the Port would already have been sold.

    Charlie won a promise before the election from the Party Leadership to hold off and review the decision and that is what has happened.

    During the election Cameron unveiled his 'Big Society' message.

    This gave Charlie time to come up with and to develop an alternative to the Goldsmith Plan that chimed well with the 'Big Society' theme. One that addressed the key objections to the privatisation and gets the Port into local ownership.

    This was an intelligent and pragmatic approach more likely to succeed than any dogmatic opposition to any sale at all.

    It is interesting that The People's Port has won support from people accross the political spectrum and of no politics.

    We have to face the facts.

    The old Trust Port is outdated and offers no solution to the development of the Port in todays world. It also did little or nothing for Dover itself. Now is the time for change and Charlie has a way forward that will gain the maximum advantage for the Town and Port.

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