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Chris
I'm sorry, but Howard is 100% correct with this - ALL these jobs are to go. It's something I've known about privately for a while now, but for obvious reasons have been unable to pass on. I also know the distress it's causing for the people involved - plenty of heart searching and many worries for the future. It really is a very worrying time for them.
Frankly, it's the start of many such decisions involving public sector workers around the country. Of course the Tories won't reverse this decision if they get elected because they simply can't afford to - and the decision will be repeated the length and breadth of the country once the severity of the cuts starts to become reality. This is the real legacy of crass Labour economics, added to by the depth of the global recession, and it's going to get a lot, lot worse before any sign of improvement surfaces.
I heard a very sensible Tory politician saying that relocating Civil Service and other public sector jobs away from London (it being so expensive and all) could save the public purse £47 million per annum. That being the case, our Chamber of Commerce people need to get to Westminster the minute the election has been decided and start lobbying for some of those jobs to come to Dover. The time has come for the CoC to get in there, stop telling unimpressed ears that it means business, and prove it. With all these thousands of houses soon to be built at Whitfield, we have to find jobs from somewhere and if the CoC don't toss their hat into the ring, you can bet your bottom dollar that every other CoC from around the country will do.
