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  I find it fascinating that the two major parties spend so much time trying to denigrate and dismiss the role of the Town Council and yet spend so much time fighting over it. Here is a body designed to represent people at a truly local level by examining planning applications in their area, helping to fund voluntary and social groups, trying hard to preserve infrastucture, working on initiatives for community safety, putting in to practice ideas pushed down from District and County (without funding to back them up), seeking to encourage business into the town, providing a focus for community and local sports and preserving alotments. Town councils are far more than 'parish councils' both in their history and in what they can do achieve and they do it on a genuine local level. And yet the silly game of saying they "don't matter" while doing all they can to incorporate them into party political politics continues. Even the flyers produced relate more to national politics than they do to local issues so why continue to pretend that the Town is not important to you? Dover Town Council deserves some respect for what it is trying hard to achieve so now that the by-election is over can we put the toys back in the pram and get on with the job in hand?

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