The post you are reporting:
"For years you have done nothing but run down what the D.H.B done and the way they work, yet they have been giving out funding for groups in Dover for many years they just did not shout about it"
Mr Vic, The above quote lifted from yours above is untrue. I did not and have not run down the DHB or the way the port works. I did oppose the privatisation of the port and at that time, when it looked certain that there was a determination to sell, came forward with an alternative ownership model that would have seen the port owned by its community. I used my knowledge and experience in the international ports and maritime sector to promote that alternative and to ensure that the port could not be sold to anyone else. Opposition to a proposed course of action and the works being undertaken by the organisation to prepare the ground for that course of action is not running down the organisation or everything that it does. Basically, what I said at the time was "there's a better way of doing things, I believe that what you are doing is wrong, here's a different, better, way of proceeding". Prior to the privatisation issue I was not prominently vocal, I had, and have, my own business working successfully in the international ports and maritime sector.
In the past, the former CEO made a very big virtue of not giving out to the community, things have begun to change and people have noticed the change. If they were doing no more, no less, than they have always done, no one would notice any difference.
There was a rigorous selection and interview process for the positions of community director and the selection panel reached their own decision on the same basis that any job interview panel arrives at an appointment decision. I have more than 30 yrs experience in ports and maritime, have served on boards of new and rapidly growing ports and delivered brand new, and now successful, ports and terminals in the private sector and I have worked my way up from the bottom, so perhaps I bring a few things to the table for both the port and the community.