howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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27 February 2011
17:1894475loved the grovelling vic "ma,am your humble and obedient servant" indeed.
maybe she will remember you in the birthday honours list.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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27 February 2011
17:2094477a copy of the reply from her majesty has just reached me:
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dear vic
up yours
liz
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27 February 2011
17:2194478
Shouldn't that be "Graciously Up Yours"?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 February 2011
17:3594479I did get a reply ,and unlike yours it was not rude.
But I forgot we are in Dover and one must expect replys like the two above.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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27 February 2011
17:4694480Can we see the reply?
And back to my comment on the previous page, what do UKIP HQ think of a Parliamentary candidate asking HM to ignore the will of Parliament?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 February 2011
17:5994481Yes I can do it again,it has been up before but I will dig it out and put it up.
27 February 2011
18:0294482Sorry Vic, I really don't mean to be rude. It is irresistible when you do the things you do and then ask us to take you politically seriously. You know I have respect for you, but it is sometimes stretched to its limits................
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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27 February 2011
18:0294484With reference to Vic's letter, would it be nit-picking to mention that the tax going into the exchequer would still go in no matter who owns it. What is of concern is how the profits are used and how they can be made to benefit the town as a whole.
Another point worth mentioning is that the 'iconic' status of the port has more to do with its name and location and these factors will not change whatever happens.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 February 2011
18:1794486This is the letter I got back from Buckingham Palace on the 28th June 2010.
Dear Mr Matcham.
The Queen has asked me to thank you for your letter of 27th May exressing your concern over the previous Goverment,s proposal to privatise the Port of Sover.
Her Majesty has taken careful note of your comments.
As a constitional Sovereign,The Queens acts on the advice of her Ministers,and I have ,therefore, been instructed to send your letter to the Right Honourable Philip Hammond,MP,the Secretary of State for Transport,so that he may know of your approach to Her Majesty on this matter and may consider the points you raise.
Yours sincerely
Sign Mrs Sonia Bonici.
Senior Correspondence Officer.
Yes and the letter was sighed the rest after that is history and was printed in the press at the time ,And yes I did get aletter back from Philip Hammond MP.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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27 February 2011
18:4594490i think her majesty was being polite there vic, she would not have the time to deal with your request.
she is run off her feet waving at people, hitting new ships with champagne bottles, posing for stamps and coins and all the other affairs of state.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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27 February 2011
19:1994494That's "up yours" couched in royal protocol terms
Still hasn't answered my point, what is a parliamentary candidate (and constituency chairman) of a supposedly major party doing asking HM not to give assent to to a parliamentary bill?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 February 2011
19:2694495I have the Support of UKIP.but even If that not be case I would have still gone ahead .I am waiting to see how many of you turn up at the Town HALL later in the week ,and if you get up to put your case of the sell of the port or not,or like most times I am the only one to get up and I will .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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27 February 2011
19:4594498vic
when you say you have the support of your party, is that for your campaign to keep the port as it is or for writing to her majesty?
the meeting on thursday is about whether we have a referendum on the subject, nothing more than that.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 February 2011
19:5294500We will have to wait and see on that. and for your other points it is Both.
Brian Dixon
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27 February 2011
19:5794502so just another pointless exersize in time wasteing with loads of hot air thrown in.
i perssonly cant see it happening.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 February 2011
20:0194503Brian, you could be right we will have to wait and see .
27 February 2011
20:2794508What on Earth does #114 mean?
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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27 February 2011
23:4994535Vic, the query about the 200 or 400 million pounds is that no-one seems to understand whether Charlie proposes the Port be indebted for 200 or 400 million pounds. Both figures have cropped up.
Even Peter doesn't seem to know, for all that I asked him.
Keith is also curious about it.
Charlie's proposal seems to be presented in simple-simon terms, but it is in the small writing that one can detect the potential dangers. Such as: what would the creditors do if a rate was not paid on time?
Or: What would happen if a Sealink ferry conked out after arriving in Dover, and refused to budge until a RN frigate managed to tow it back out to sea?
Who would be liable for the costs and interrupted sevice?
Look out for the small print in Charlie's 'people's port' package!
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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28 February 2011
00:1194538A Royal Navy frigate towing a Sealink ferry out to sea for repairs - Alexander, I think you've landed on Planet Vic
Ross Miller
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28 February 2011
00:1394539Cloud Cuckoo Land more like it
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi