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Yes Paul, the last Government wanted to sell of the Port and the present one does too. You wrote and said many things condemning Labour for wanting to sell off the Port and said they should be stopped and I agreed with you.
Now with this lot in, you say it is a done deal and we should accept it and find another way forward.
That is what I disagree with.It was wrong for Labour to want to sell our Port Trusts and it is wrong to sell them now. This Government has the public debt well covered and that should not be given as a reason to sell off our Port Trusts.
T2 was given as the reason for going private, to raise the cash to implement it. T2, in my opinion, for obvious reasons, is no longer viable, relieving DHB of having to fund T2.
Which brings us back to status quo, a money making port that could change its policies to accommodate Dover/Deal financially, if the same effort of pressure was put on them, as is being put forward for PP project, that could change.
I most certainly do not want to see the Port sold off to a foreign company, so if the PP is what everyone wants and is established, then I wish its creators and recipients the best of luck and truly hope it is successful. I will either be one of the ones missing out or sometime in the future I will be one of the ones saying I told you so.
I am sticking to my opinion that pressure should be brought upon the Trust to channel more finance towards Dover/Deal, before going for other options.