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  It amuses me how people are reacting so hysterically, jumping to conclusions and being luddite.
  
  Personally I remain fully in favour of privatisation but just wish it was to be done on the terms offered for the Conservatives in 2005, it would have been far better for Dover than Labour rock bottom fire sale just to clear debt.
  
  Silly and absurd claims on this forum suggest that there is something inferior about a privatised port. Utter rubbish is being spoken, the Poles who I see every morning returing home from their night shift being one piece of evidence.
  
  Silly scare stories put about by people who should know better simply obscure sensible debate.
  
  Dover receives little in benefit from the Port now. The jobs wont go away and neither will they be more vulnerable to overseas workers than they are now either.
  
  The Port need not be sold to any one owner like Dubai Ports. What is wrong with shares being sold to employees, others Port employers and employees and a 'golden share' being offered to local people. The balance could be offered to institutions via flotation. This would provide massive benefit to us in Dover and I would certainly be a buyer.
  
  It would be far more sensible for Gwyn Prosser and Charlie Elphicke to join forces with Paul Watkins to negotiate the best possible deal for the employees and Dover. Being Canute-like will not do Dover any good in the long term. Constructive co-operation and engagement would be better and a more practical approach. This is made more complex by the General Election and this will get heated but we need to think of Dover first.

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