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  Gary - fair enough but no change of board means no change of policy and that policy is a commercial sale, so in order to get what you want there must be a change of board.
  Further the current charter limits the amount of funds DHB can channel into the locale - I believe it is a max of £100k and even that is caveated with conditions galore.
  It would be fantastic if the local area could benefit to a greater extent from profits generated by DHB, but that will require a Port Revision Order to be approved by a Minister who has just seen a whopping great 25% cut from his budget and is in need of anything that will raise significant sums of money; so I think for the foreseeable future it is unlikely he will approve anything other than some form of sale. Equally it is not about whether this or the last government were or were not "strong enough" it is about political will and neither of them had/have the political will to change the status quo in this respect.
  Ultimately I believe Charlie's proposal will come to naught and the government will support and back a trade sale/IPO and we will get nothing.

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