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I fail to see any difference between the current Government selling off the port and a Tory proposal to sell it off four years ago, despite Barry's ludicrous attempt to lay the blame squarely at the door of No.10
Any attempt to buy the port by Dubai Ports would surely attract the attention of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, since they already own P&O Ferries, and isn't Dubai as skint as the rest of the world? I believe that Abu Dhabi has just had to bail them out to the tune of several zillion.......
Finally, Barry, am I to understand that "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." from post #27 is a way of saying that Polish jobs are somehow more significant than jobs for people who actually live here? I'm struggling with a seemingly unintelligible set of double standards here: on the one hand you are saying that Polish jobs in a privatised Port of Dover are OK to live with, and on the other you're strenuously advocating that continued British membership of the EU needs looking at. I am genuinely confused here, it's not a political point scoring exercise at your expense, but how can you possibly advocate the use of cheap Eastern European labour whilst simultaneously advocate a withdrawal from the EU? The two surely don't go hand in hand, and I would have thought that the uppermost consideration for the Conservative Party to be reelected in the Dover & Deal constituency is to say 'keep jobs local'.
As Rick says, privatisation need not be the bete noire it's being touted as, but I strongly believe that our MPs stance of 'Dover is not for sale' is the right one. 400 years of history should not be abandoned because obscenely greedy money lenders in the City have bankrupted the country. I don't blame the Government for bailing the banks out - the Tories would presumably have had little choice but to do much the same thing - but your analogy of Labour's 'Fire Sale' of national assets (which I also believe is near the mark) cannot be allowed to go through without loud voices of dissention being heard.