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  The National Trust has done well and it is good news that the geology is safe.
  
  The DHB has told the people of Dover time and time and time and time again that whilst it remains with its current status it cannot spend one penny outside the port. Roger Mountford has said that one of his main reasons for wanting to sell the port is to free it up so that it can spend money outside the port. Yet we see yesterday that the DHB was able to donate 2% of its pretax profits to help purchase a section of cliff well outside the port and town and it does this whilst continuing to ruin the lives of men and women in Dover by making them redundant and outsourcing their functions, whilst telling the Town that no money can come from the port to the Town to assist with regeneration, but that the Town can have the loan of 5 Hi-Vis bibs so long as they are returned to Harbour House each night, whilst promoting policies that rip significant external funding from programmes that will benefit our young people. Can no-one see the incongruity of the DHB donation to a cash rich national charity whilst it spits on its neighbours and workforce? What is of more value to you - people or rocks?
  
  This is not a DPPT thing.
  
  This is a scandal, either the DHB has deliberately spurned the Town when it could have helped or it is breaking with its foundational documents and constitution by making such a donation.
  
  The DHB has demonstrated how much it cares about the people and the town by offering the loan of 5 hi-vis vests whilst giving £200k to a cash rich national charity to help them buy something well outside the town. Proof, if any more were needed, that the DHB cannot be trusted to make decisions that will serve the best interests of their stakeholders and cannot be trusted to decide the future of the port. Stop the privatisation of the port, the DHB transfer request will be an unmitigated disaster for all of us if it is allowed to proceed.

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