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  QUOTE: Ed - the idea was to ring fence the money and use it to improve the dock transport links, dualling the A2. Also a levy could then be imposed on each truck/car to feed into the Council, something that could not be done with a Trust Port. Whatever you say this was better for Dover than Labour privatising it just to clear down their debt. UNQUOTE
  
  Barry:
  
  (1) Did you really believe that any government would set aside £500,000,000 purely for the benefit of one small town?
  
  (2) Why is it necessary for Dover to sell off its port to pay for its own roads when they are national trunk roads serving the whole country? Did anybody propose selling Birmingham to the Arabs to pay for the M6?
  
  (3) I seem to remember you saying that the dualling of the A2 was near the top of the last Conservative government's agenda for road construction and would have happened had not they been sent off into the wilderness. Since building national road infrastructure has always been funded by central government, why would a future Conservative government renege on this commitment and flog off the Port of Dover to pay for it?
  
  (4) What is the logic of selling the port to pay for the roads to it? Bit like selling your house to pay for a new driveway - to the house which you no longer own!
  
  (5) Why does the DHB charter as a Trust Port have to be torn up to enable charging a levy on cars and trucks? Why can it not simply be amended? Why is it possible to revoke the charter altogether and sell the port off yet it is supposedly not possible simply to amend it?

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