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Roger, I am in favour of economic growth for Dovorians, and the communities in Dover District. This implies training programs for basic factory and farm-work that are promoted by the local Councils (District and County), and not JUST for computer IT skills or for maths and literacy courses which people can attend after 1 year of unemployment, as is currently the case.
Also training in other spheres, such as brick-laying and a whole series of crafts, would be welcome. These training courses should be open for the local people who wish to attend them, free for those who cannot pay the course-fees, and should result in people also being actively trained in situ in the factories and on the farms or within the trade they are learning.
However, the local factories and farms employ largely people who are very diligent and physically fit, but often are not even from Britain! At this point, economic growth is a no-goer!
What you are aiming at achieving is demographic growth through migration from other parts of England and London.
The e.u. laws do not allow any programme for local employment in Britain, as this would be illegal, for all employment in the private sector must be open for citizens of 27 countries, and those countries that have a minimum wage half or less than half than in Britain or other western countries, supply busy and willing workers who no-doubt out-do in performance a demotivated local person.
This is a snapshot of reality. Incidentally, racism (this is just for the record in general) is when people are humiliated on account of their ethnic origin. I never have doubted the working integrity and will of many people who work here, or deemed them inferior in human constitution, but do assert that many people in Britain do not and will not stand a chance of employment and economic prosperity, as the employment is open to people from so many countries who would earn much less in their own country, or who would find no work at all in their own country.
Because of this: the economic laws in Britain concerning employment, there is little chance any Council in Britain could do anything to introduce any form of economic prosperity, and it might just be a lost cause at this point. But demographic growth by inviting more people over to settle in Dover is not economic growth for the local people.
Stagnation is a result of e.u. membership, and of so much production being transferred abroad to countries, including China, where labour costs a fraction of what it does here, and also of the policies of artificial house-pricing that obliges families to pay far too much on rent or mortgage, considering the real value of housing. Houses are worth much less than they are sold for in Britain.
The real debt of Britain is over 3 trillion pounds, counting the State debt and the individual debts of many individual people and families.
If this goes on, any attempt to introduce Prosperity is doomed to failure.
However, importing more people to Dover as a Council policy of DDC is a disaster, it is not anything that will help the local people, and would not create jobs, just add more people who are looking for and getting the jobs in Dover. And our Country-side would be urbanised.
Roger, local Dovorians should build houses when they need them, currently we don't need them.
Currently, the local estate market has a supply in abundance of local houses for sale or for rent.
If local Dovorians one day need more houses to be built, I will support it, but you and Paul Watkins are only trying to import more people to Dover!