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  If KCC invested a large sum of Kentish reserves in the Port of Dover, would not any profits have to be spread across the whole of the Kentish population as they will all have contributed? Is this not the status quo and therefore how would it specifically benefit the people of Dover?
  
  The district councils mentioned all complain of being as poor as church mice, what would their residents say if they were to be advised that huge sums were to be spent on buying part of a port when their councils are struggling even to keep the bogs open?
  
  The DHB pension fund is in severe deficit and the ferry companies are presently taking action against DHB to try to reclaim money extracted from them for the purpose of repairing this deficit as a prelude to privatisation but taken on the pretext that it was to go towards the construction costs for Terminal 2. Does this sound like a pension fund in a position to invest heavily in the purchase of a port?
  
  If any of the other pension funds mentioned were to invest in the port, would not their contributors expect to see any profits used to bolster pensions rather than paid to the people of Dover?
  
  The reason given for establishing a People's Port, although it may sound like a harbour installation in Communist China or North Korea, is that the people of Dover would theoretically benefit from the profits. If all said profits were being paid to the pension funds who owned the port, where is the benefit to the people of Dover?
  
  Is this to be a People's Port or a Pensioner's Port?

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