Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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........to get your emails and letters to the Secretary of State for Transport to help stop the DHB privatisation scheme from being approved.
http://peoplesport.org.uk/downloads/guidance-for-submissions.pdf
Whether you support the peoples' alternative or would prefer the port to remain a trust port, YOU MUST ACT.
Don't believe the DHB glossy which implies that the sell-off is a done deal - it isn't. Don't be complacent and think that writing to the minister will have no effect - it will if enough of us do it. We have already succeeded in changing government policy on the port through people power, and we can do it again.
Please read the document at the above link and GET TYPING! You can also (not instead) sign the petition at
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/36088
Thank you.
PS If the privatisation goes through; and if you think the present port management have done nothing for the town - you ain't seen nothin' yet, as the song says.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Done Peter
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Good man, the more the better. Please pass the message on......
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Sent a 12 page representation, Peter. It went by post with an email back-up.
As I assured Neil some time back on the Forum, there is no mention of DPPT in my submission, so it remained along fair play, focusing only on the DHB proposal.
I did state also that local people in Dover generally are of the opinion that an equity and shareholding conclusion of the Port (DHB proposal) would see the collapse of Dover's maritime industry.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
only 12 pages alex,i would have thought twice that from you.

Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Alex can't be 100% sure that the Secretary of State reads his blog, Brian.

I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Done.
[it was at 183 before and after. Perhaps it takes a mo?]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Thank you Tom.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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@ peter.your such a card,and you better watch that razor sharp wit,or you might cut your self.

Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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I have signed the petition and will compose a letter tomorrow.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Peter, size 14 font, not the size 8 which DHB used. I had to magnify the screen by 100% to read it. So 12 of my pages would be about 5 pages in DHB font.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Thank you Judith.
Size really doesn't matter, Alex.

I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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peter
im unable to get pdf
is there another way to e mail
i will do it now
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Keith, I've emailed it to you in Word format.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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peter
checked e mail think you sent it to my old e mail address
paulb has my new one
if you wouldn't mind geting it from him and forwarding it to me
that would be kind
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I've sent it again, Keith.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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would be interesting to hear the views of the harbour board, they have one of their number as a member but have chosen not to comment on this or other related threads.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Hi Howard, I thought DHB's views had been well publicised, they did after all spend rather a significant amount of money on a Glossie Dossie to tell us all that black was really white and that the sky was lime green in colour.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
disagree with you neil, received the glossy thing from them at the same time as i received another glossy thing from the blues claiming in effect that charlie was the second coming.
both ended up very quickly in the recycle bin.
on a forum such as this we can then challenge what has been said/written and eventually we get enough information to form an opinion.
i have asked many questions and most of the time either you or peter has answered them, that cannot be said of d.h.b.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Of course we always try and answer Howard, no hidden agendas with us
