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Ross, it's pretty obvious that I have to return here on this thread, as you leave me no other choice!
I understand full well what is in the port proposal of Charlie Elphicke MP, having read the page as I already have stated. My last two posts simply state that Charlie is proposing to SELL our Port, the last post specifying that the sum he asks for is 400 million pounds, of which half would go to the Treasury. Are you trying to declassify me?
Hence, Charlie wants to sell the Port for the same price as DHB does. However in his election campaign he pledged that he was against Port privatisation and that he believed that Dover Port should remain a State asset.
Peter Garstin, to buy the Port implies that it must be sold! A port cannot be bought if it is not sold.
Charlie intends raking in several hundred thousand quid from Dovorians, and the rest of the money, almost 400 million pounds, from companies and investors, who would become the new owners.
I assume that if now Ross tries telling me that these investors will not be owners, but creditors, I will be responding that Charlie will have a hard rime getting the port to repay them the money, and at the same time paying Dover Town money for regeneration, and at the same time paying a pension fund, and at the same time building T2 in Western Docks, and at the same time paying the creditors a profit and the interest .....
Ross, I am only stating what Charlie's proposal would imply. Incidentily, I read the many representations, and the comments added to them. I know all about the many proposals, of DHB, and of the many who sent representations, even though their names are not included.
The confidentiality prevents me from giving details, including those concerning my own representation and the added comments, but I am not ignorant of what it is all about!
May-be we should wait to see what the Secretary of State decides, and accept the fact that meanwhile Charlie has jumped up and proposed to Downing Street that the Port should be sold after all, for 400 million pounds, and that he had the audacity to claim he was acting with the favour of Dover's community.
Really, Ross, I hope that Howard doesn't tell me off for this long post! But I can't just let myself be told that I don't read anything about the Port and the many proposals!