Sunday 25 September 2011

British Party, Economic Prosperity

Prosperity in Britain
A functional economy offering work and a fair salary to the British People can be the only basis to economic prosperity, the reason for this being that the People are a part of the Country. A country cannot prosper if a part of its people are excluded from prosperity. As this ideal should apply to all countries, so too to Britain.

Whenever one government is involved in trying to solve all the problems of the world, it will fail, as this is not its task. To be a good example by administering to the needs of the home country and its people is by far better, as it is an example for other countries to follow if they wish. One government has enough to do when administering to the country and people for whom it has been elected.

The Union and Citizens' Rights
Britain's economic prosperity must be based on citizens' rights, and these rights must be guaranteed within the Constitution. The rights of citizens to partake in economic prosperity may not be diminished, and no attempt may ever be made to supplant the British People with another ethnic group.

The Constitution must be that of one Nation of the British Isles with four constituent countries, each with their own national identity. The Union of four equal countries would leave open the option for Ireland to be a united constituent country of the British Isles. This is optional, the other option being special and privileged relations between Britain, including Northern Ireland, and Eire.

Members or descendants of one constituent country can live in another constituent country while maintaining their original national identity, and at the same time can be part of the identity of the constituent country they or their parents chose to live in.

Commonwealth
A Commonwealth of special relationship between Britain – or a Union of the British Isles – and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, based on reciprocal terms, could offer great benefits to the member states.

Cooperation with other countries should not come about in the form of a commonwealth or a union, but as between different countries and nations.

No foreign parliament could ever dictate laws to the United Kingdom, not even if British delegates are part of such foreign parliament.


British Party: celticbritannia.blogspot.com/2011/09/british-party.html


Saturday 24 September 2011

British Party, Speculation in the Economy

Speculation in the Economy
Britain must work towards an economy free of any kind of speculation. Wherever speculation is a driving force in economic planning, it will lead to injustice. The fruit of honest labour paid for with a fair salary should be at the basis of the economy, with no space for any kind of easy profit.

Quick profit is usually the result of planned speculation, whereby people's incomes and savings are drawn upon by another entity in an excessive manner, or work is paid for with a low salary.

Britain's economy is presently obsessed with speculation, leading to many forms of injustice, such as evicting hard-working people from their home owing to high mortgages and employing non-British people in factories for the minimum wage, deliberately consigning millions of British citizens to unemployment, as they could not live on the minimum wage, or are not as physically fit as competitors from countries where a much lower minimum wage is the norm.

Private Sector Discrimination Equals Speculation
Private sector employers who speculate on the age, health and ethnic origin of the workers they intend to employ, and work out miserable salary conditions in order to increase their personal profits, are largely responsible for the economic injustice that is consigning millions of people to a future of uncertainty and deprivation in Britain.

Rich people strive to become richer, and those who are very rich know no end to their quest for personal assets. This is basically the result of speculation thriving on hard-working people, driving many into personal financial ruin or unemployment.


British Party: celticbritannia.blogspot.com/2011/09/british-party.html


Thursday 22 September 2011

British Party, Local Economic Administration

Local Economic Administration Board
Each county would have an economic administration board responsible for promoting and safeguarding the local economy according to nationally approved standards. The central county economic administration board would have an office in each district within the county.

Functions of the board would include ensuring that vacant jobs are offered to local citizens and that under no circumstances priority is given to foreign nationals.

Creating Local Economic Production
The board would also be responsible for creating new production sites in industry and agriculture whenever demand on the national and international markets would justify such move, and providing there is a need to create work for locally unemployed people.

The administration of new productive sites would be offered to people with skills in the relevant trade, and the centres of production, whether or not they are privately owned, cannot be transferred abroad.

The creation of new production sites through county economic administration boards would further require central coordination at national level, ensuring that agricultural and industrial production is fairly distributed nationwide.

The county economic administration board would also provide training courses to help local citizens find work in the available spheres of economy.


British Party, House Prices

House Prices
The housing market should be regulated following a policy of commodity prices based on real value. An accommodation would be valued according to all its individual components and their condition. Therefore, the bricks and cement comprising a property have a set value, as do the windows and doors, staircases, floorboards and roof tiles. Indeed nothing within the property could be valued above its reasonable market price, including the cost of installation for water, gas and electricity. Every individual component that constitutes the property would add up to the accommodation's full value, or real value, including the land it is situated on.

Increased Value on House Prices
Increased value of a property owing to location, the surrounding neighbourhood conditions and any other external factors, should not exceed a set percentage of the property's real value, for example 10-15%. House prices must not be driven by any other market forces. The housing market must not be subject to speculation.

Who Should Determine the Prices of Individual Houses?
The valuation of an accommodation for sale would have to be examined and approved by an official and competent office. 


British Party: celticbritannia.blogspot.com/2011/09/british-party.html


British Party, Public Transport

Electric Traction on Public Transport
Britain should place priority in offering Public transport using electric traction, with trains and buses designed and built in British factories. The use of diesel engines on public means of transport would be gradually replaced, and fares for trains and buses would be significantly reduced to encourage people to make use of clean transport.

State Funding for Public Transport
A basic part of the cost of public transport would be supplied monthly from the budget to cover a part of the expenses of service providers, to enable them to maintain low fares for the public.

A transport contribution, or tax, would be calculated according to personal income, so that higher incomes contribute a higher amount.


British Party: celticbritannia.blogspot.com/2011/09/british-party.html


Wednesday 21 September 2011

British Party, Economic Policies: Small Industry

Small Industry
Economic production should be distributed on a local basis through small factories employing tens or hundreds of people rather than concentrated in very large establishments. Skilled individuals should be allowed to commence their own enterprise, preferably as members of a guild that ensures adherence to quality and fair trade.

Local industry should be protected from unfair competition from abroad, for example when imported manufacture does not comply with moral standards of production or has been obtained through a considerably lower wage than paid in Britain.

Men and women must be paid the same wage for the same work, and a flexible employment policy should allow both part time and full time employment.


British Party: celticbritannia.blogspot.com/2011/09/british-party.html


British Party, Economic Policies: Combined Contract

Combined Contract
Britain should strive to be self-sufficient in agricultural products that can be grown on home soil, and ensure that jobs in the field of agriculture are assigned to British workers following a combined contract of employment.

Flexibility within such a contract would allow workers to alternate between seasonal work on farming estates and factory or other employment. A central State fund covering this form of combined contract would guarantee pay to cover holiday, sickness, maternity and redundancy for the workers, relieving private sector employers from these particular expenses.


British Party: celticbritannia.blogspot.com/2011/09/british-party.html


British Party, Economic Policies: Social Contract

Social Contract
Factories and production sites in general may be owned privately or in a share-holding system, but the owner or share-holding executives may not transfer the production abroad or employ foreign workers in place of British people.

The social contract guarantees that the workers have the right to employment in their own Country within the spheres of production that are available. These productive facilities may not be transferred out of the Country or become inaccessible to British citizens.

The social contract upholds the basic value that private or share ownership within the Country's economy cannot be to the exclusive benefit of the owners of a productive establishment or business. In return for the advantages of private or share ownership, the owners must offer available work to the local population on whose territory the productive business is situated.


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Saturday 10 September 2011

British Party

British Party is at home in Dover, Kent, and on Celtic Britannia.

Founding Declaration
The founding declaration of British Party is: they rebuilt the house following the same plan. The party is dedicated to communion with the High City and will never renege the Christian Faith.

The British Isles
The founding aspiration of British Party is to achieve Prosperity over the British Isles by recognising the Celestial Monarchy and working for an economic order based on fairness. Prosperity comes from High, and we must work for it, but we cannot prosper without the Faith.



Constitution
The British Party constitution is founded upon the Easter of Resurrection and the Gospel. The constitution recognises Saint Mark the Evangelist as the successor of Saint Peter, and the written Gospel as binding authority.

The British People are considered Nation of the British Isles, and the British Parliament is considered responsible for administering to the needs and welfare of the British People.

Education
The Christian Faith should be taught in British schools to all children, with no exception.
There is no excuse and no justification for any individual to assume and publicly state that the Christian Faith has no place in British schools. No person has the right to exclude children in British schools from knowledge of the Christian Faith.

Economic Policies: Combined Contract
Britain should strive to be self-sufficient in agricultural products that can be grown on home soil, and ensure that jobs in the field of agriculture, including food processing factories, are assigned to British workers following a combined contract of employment.

Flexibility within such a contract would allow workers who do not have a permanent occupation to alternate between seasonal work on farming estates and short-term factory jobs, and even other spheres of employment. A State fund covering this form of combined contract would guarantee pay to cover holiday, sickness, maternity and redundancy for the workers, relieving private sector employers from these particular expenses. The combined contract would prevent work agencies from taking advantage of cheap foreign labour as a means to cover short-term employment contracts.

Currently in Britain, millions of jobs are given to foreign workers - mainly from Eastern Europe - on a short-term basis, usually through work agencies. Once the contract is finished, these workers can receive job-seekers allowance and housing benefit in the UK, while millions of young British people are practically excluded from any working experience. The costs for the State are unacceptable, contributing to our Country's national debt and economic downfall.

It is up to the State to replace these quick-fix work agencies - many of whom are breaking the Law by way of racial discrimination against British people - with a State-run work agency using the combined contract. In Britain there are a number of rogue work agencies offering to British employers workers only from Eastern Europe. They are breaking the Law that forbids discrimination, but no-one in Central or Local Government cares. 

Rogue work agencies offering to UK employers workers from only one Eastern European country in a regimental fashion, workers who are either already present in the UK or who can be flown in from Eastern Europe within 24 hours, are not only breaking the Law, they are also applying racially motivated overtures by implying that British people are incapable of working in their own Country. Although amply tolerated by Central and Local Government, it is illegal even by current standards, as well as being destructive towards the British economy.

Economic Policies: Social Contract
Factories and production sites in general may be owned privately or in a share-holding system, but the owner or share-holding executives may not transfer the production abroad or employ foreign workers in place of British people.

The social contract guarantees that the workers have the right to employment in their own Country within the spheres of production that are available. These productive facilities may not be transferred out of the Country or become inaccessible to British citizens.

The social contract upholds a basic value: the title of private or share-ownership within the Country's economy cannot be to the exclusive benefit of the owners of a productive establishment: in return for the advantages deriving from private or share-ownership, employers must offer available work to the local population.


Economic Policies: Small Industry
Economic production should be distributed on a local basis through small factories employing tens or hundreds of people rather than concentrated in very large establishments. Skilled individuals should be allowed to commence their own enterprise, preferably as members of a guild that ensures adherence to quality and fair trade.

Local industry should be protected from unfair competition from abroad, for example when imported manufacture does not comply with moral standards of production or has been obtained through a considerably lower wage than paid in Britain.

Men and women must be paid the same wage for the same work, and a flexible employment policy should allow both part time and full time employment.

Public Transport: Electric Traction
Britain should place priority in offering public transport using electric traction, with trains and buses designed and built in British factories. The use of diesel engines on public means of transport would be gradually replaced, and fares for trains and buses significantly reduced to encourage people to make use of clean transport.

Public Transport: State Funding
A basic part of the cost of public transport would be supplied monthly from the budget to cover a part of the expenses of service providers, to enable them to maintain low fares for the public.

A transport contribution, or tax, would be calculated according to personal income, so that higher incomes contribute a higher amount.

House Prices
The housing market should be regulated following a policy of commodity prices based on real value. An accommodation would be valued according to all its individual components and their condition. Therefore, the bricks and mortar comprising a property have a set value, as do the windows and doors, staircases, floorboards and the roof. Indeed nothing within the property could be valued above its reasonable market price, including the cost of installation for water, gas and electricity. Every individual component that constitutes the property would add up to the accommodation's full value, or real value, including the land it is situated on.

Increased Value on House Prices
Increased value of a property owing to location, the surrounding neighbourhood conditions and any other external factors should not exceed a set percentage of the property's real value, for example 10-15%. House prices must not be driven by any other market forces. The housing market must not be subject to speculation.

Who Should Determine the Prices of Individual Houses?
The valuation of an accommodation for sale would have to be examined and approved by an official and competent office.


Local Economic Administration
Each county would have an economic administration board responsible for promoting and safeguarding the local economy according to nationally approved standards. The central county economic administration board would have an office in each district within the county.

Functions of the board would include ensuring that vacant jobs are offered to local citizens and that under no circumstances priority is given to foreign nationals.

The board would also be responsible for creating new production sites in industry and agriculture whenever demand on the national and international markets would justify such move, and providing there is a need to create work for locally unemployed people.

The administration of new productive sites would be offered to people with skills in the relevant trade, and the centres of production, whether or not they are privately owned, cannot be transferred abroad.

The creation of new production sites through county economic administration boards would further require central coordination at national level, ensuring that agricultural and industrial production is fairly distributed nationwide.

The county economic administration board would also provide training courses to help local citizens find work in the available spheres of economy.


Speculation in the Economy
Britain must work towards an economy free of any kind of speculation. Wherever speculation is a driving force in economic planning, it will lead to injustice. The fruit of honest labour paid for with a fair salary should be at the basis of the economy, with no space for any kind of easy profit.

Quick profit is usually the result of planned speculation, whereby people's incomes and savings are drawn upon by another entity in an excessive manner, or work is paid for with a low salary.

Britain's economy is presently obsessed with speculation, leading to many forms of injustice, such as evicting hard-working people from their home owing to high mortgages and employing non-British people in factories for the minimum wage, deliberately consigning millions of British citizens to unemployment, as they could not live on the minimum wage, or are not as physically fit as competitors from countries where a much lower minimum wage is the norm.

Private Sector Discrimination Equals Speculation
Private sector employers who speculate on the age, health and ethnic origin of the workers they intend to employ, and work out miserable salary conditions in order to increase their personal profits, are largely responsible for the economic injustice that is consigning millions of people to a future of uncertainty and deprivation in Britain.

Rich people strive to become richer, and those who are very rich know no end to their quest for personal assets. This is basically the result of speculation thriving on hard-working people, driving many into personal financial ruin or unemployment.

Prosperity in Britain
A functional economy offering work and a fair salary to the British People can be the only basis to economic prosperity, the reason for this being that the People are a part of the Country. A country cannot prosper if a part of its people are excluded from prosperity. As this ideal should apply to all countries, so too to Britain.

Whenever one government is involved in trying to solve all the problems of the world, it will fail, as this is not its task. To be a good example by administering to the needs of the home country and its people is by far better, as it is an example for other countries to follow if they wish. One government has enough to do when administering to the country and people for whom it has been elected.


The Union and Citizens' Rights
Britain's economic prosperity must be based on citizens' rights, and these rights must be guaranteed within the Constitution. The rights of citizens to partake in economic prosperity may not be diminished, and no attempt may ever be made to supplant the British People with another ethnic group.

The constitution must be that of one Nation of the British Isles with four constituent countries, each with their own national identity. The Union of four equal countries would leave open the option for Ireland to be a united constituent country of the British Isles. This is optional, the other option being special and privileged relations between Britain, including Northern Ireland, and Eire.

Members or descendants of one constituent country can live in another constituent country while maintaining their original national identity, and at the same time can be part of the identity of the constituent country they or their parents chose to live in.

Commonwealth
A Commonwealth of special relationship between Britain – or a Union of the British Isles – and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, based on reciprocal terms, could offer great benefits to the member states.

Cooperation with other countries should not come about in the form of a commonwealth or a union, but as between different countries and nations.

No foreign parliament could ever dictate laws to the United Kingdom, not even if British delegates are part of such foreign parliament.


British Party: Democracy and Citizens' Rights


Local and National Democracy within a New British Union 
Our Nation should enjoy Democracy, with the resident British citizens having the right to take part in debating local issues, putting forward proposals, finding solutions that are satisfying for the common good, and deciding by vote the preferred proposal.
This same form of Democracy should be applied by way of referendum to important national issues proposed in Parliament concerning the Country.

The House of Commons
The elected House of Commons should be the only legislative body in Parliament, while abiding to the concept of a referendum on important issues of national concern. The antiquated House of Lords is out of touch with the concept of modern democracy and constitutes an unnecessary burden of added weight to the present system of centralised big government.

Constitution of Basic Citizens' Rights
The Constitution of basic citizens' rights, once established, could not be changed even through democracy, legislation or referendum. This Constitution has to guarantee the undisputed right of our Nation to Freedom and Independence, and the rights of British citizens to live with dignity and be able to participate in the economy, to be assisted in time of need, and to be instructed in the ways of righteousness.

The Christian Faith is the only Faith that our schools should uphold and impart. Any attempt to prevent the Christian Faith from being made known and cherished within British schools must be combated with the Law.
Our Union Flag that is In High is dedicated to the Christian Faith.


Marriage is Between Man and Woman

British Party accepts marriage as according to the true English tradition, only between man and woman. The Word of God expressed in the Bible reveals that marriage can only be between one man and one woman. This is in the origins of mankind, as God created Adam and Eve to live together and love each other.

The Kentish Faith
The origins of the English Church started with a marriage. Prince Ethelbert of Kent married the Frankish Princess Bertha in Canterbury. Prince Ethelbert believed in the religion of the Anglo-Saxons, who called God by the name of Thor. The English word Thursday comes from the name Thor.
Princess Bertha was of the Christian Faith, and believed in Jesus Christ. She carried the Gospel with her over to Kent.

The First English Church
Prince Ethelbert succeeded his father Eormenric to the throne of Kent, whose capital was in Canterbury. King Ethelbert restored an ancient church in Canterbury that had been built by the Britons and dedicated it to Saint Martin of Tours. In this church his consort Queen Bertha worshiped the Lord, and King Ethelbert himself converted to the Faith in Christ. This came about before the arrival of Augustine in Canterbury.

Saint Martin's in Canterbury
The church of Saint Martin in Canterbury is the oldest church dedicated by the English to Christ Son of God. This church is testimony to marriage between man and woman as being the foundation of the English Church.

British Party recognises marriage as being only between one man and one woman. The Christian Faith will prevail, and no law on marriage that is contrary to the Christian value on which the English Church is founded may ever be valid in British Party. No other law will ever change this!   

 
Written by D. Alexander Kent, of Kentish origin.

Member of the original English Church founded in Canterbury by King Ethelbert and Queen Bertha of Kent, their Marriage having introduced the Gospel to England.
Member of the original Celtic Church of the Scots, the Irish and the Welsh.

They rebuilt the house following the same plan.



Wednesday 7 September 2011

Elenin

The Comet Elenin
The comet Elenin was discovered in December 2010. The comet's orbit will be passing relatively close to Earth in the months of September, October and November 2011. Elenin's closest distance to Earth will occur on October 16, 2011, when it will be 22 million miles from our planet.

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), comet Elenin will not encounter any dark bodies that could alter its orbit, and will not influence Earth in any way.

Size of Elenin
NASA estimates that comet Elenin is one single object of loosely packed icy dirt between 2 and 3 miles wide, and that, owing to its size, has no gravitational effect either on Earth or on any other celestial body.

Alignment of Elenin
According to NASA, any approximate alignments of comet Elenin with other celestial bodies, including Earth, are meaningless. This statement no doubt serves to dispel claims that previous recent alignments of the comet have caused earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.

Elenin Panic
NASA's explanations concerning comet Elenin do not support in any way ongoing speculation that the comet may have been the cause of some recent earthquakes as it approached Earth. NASA says that its information on internet for Elenin is readily available, and that if the comet were any danger to anyone, we would have been informed.

Elenin will disappear from Earth's vicinity from November 2011 and continue its orbit in Space, not to return for many a century.

For more from NASA:

Monday 5 September 2011

British Celtic Origins

Descendants of Celts
The descendants of the Celts are populations either entirely or partly of Celtic origin. These populations either speak a Celtic language as their mother tongue, have some knowledge of a Celtic language, or descend from people who once spoke a Celtic language.

Place Names of Celtic Origin
Names of villages, towns and regions originating from Celtic can be found all over Britain and Ireland, and in parts of France, Spain, Italy and Serbia. However, among the few countries in the world bearing an official name that is Celtic in origin are Britain and Ireland, and three of the constituent countries of Britain, namely Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Gaelic name for Scotland is Alba, the Irish name for Ireland is Eire, and the Welsh name for Wales is Cymru. In England, a number of counties have names of Celtic origin, namely Kent, Cornwall, Devon and Cumbria, and another territory in the British Isles with Celtic origins is the Isle of Man.

Celtic Languages Spoken Today
There are only four countries in the world where a Celtic language is one of the official – or officially recognised – languages, these being Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. In Scotland, the form of Celtic that is spoken is called Gaelic, and the three Celtic languages spoken in the British Isles are Gaelic, Irish and Welsh.

Another Celtic language, Breton, is spoken in parts of Brittany, the region of western France that in times of old maintained strong cultural ties with Cornwall and Wales.

Cornish and Manx-Gaelic are two Celtic languages that were commonly spoken, respectively in Cornwall and the Isle of Man, until the 18th century. Cornish is closely related to Breton and to Welsh, thus making it a Brythonic tongue, while Manx-Gaelic is closer to Scottish-Gaelic and to Irish, and therefore is part of the Goidelic group of languages.

Both Cornish and Manx are experiencing a revival in their native territory, where written literature has served to keep them alive, so that now people are beginning to speak the language of their Celtic ancestors in Cornwall and the Isle of Man, reviving the Celtic linguistic traditions of the British Isles, similar as in Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Written by D. Alexander

Ancient Celtic history of Britain and Ireland.


Celtic Dover in Kent.


Photo: Dover in Kent, walking through history.

Saturday 3 September 2011

Conservative Party in Scotland May Disband

According to the BBC, published 4 September 2011, the Scottish Tories may disband the Conservative Party in Scotland and create a new centre-right party.

MSP Murdo Fraser
Murdo Fraser, who is deputy leader of the Scottish Conservative Party and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Scotland and Fife, will be standing as a candidate in the upcoming leadership contest of the Scottish Conservatives next month.

Cobbled Together Government
Murdo Fraser makes the announcement as the Tory Party UK battles with ongoing campaigns from the general public in Britain, with slogans such as "the cobbled together government", "leaderless Dave" and "the U-turn government", leaving the leadership speechless.

New Centre-Right Party in Scotland
According to the BBC, Mr. Fraser said "David Cameron was aware and the idea had the support of several senior Conservatives at Westminster."

Mr. Fraser's intention is to create a new centre-right party in Scotland that would however maintain an alliance with the Conservative Party at Westminster.

Read on:

The Principality of Filettino

Filettino Declares Independence
The municipality of Filettino, 70 miles east of Rome, has declared independence from Italy, becoming a principality. The BBC published the news on 3 September 2011 with the headlines: Italian town Filettino declares independence.

Reasons for Filettino's Declaration of Independence
The move to independence comes in the face of severe austerity measures being introduced in Italy, including a law to merge municipalities and sack local councils. The BBC reports the mayor, Luca Sellari, as saying: “there is enormous enthusiasm about declaring the independence of the new principality.”

New Currency in Filettino
The Principality of Filettino has introduced its own currency, the Fiorito, the banknotes already being used in local shops as legal tender.

Article written by D Alexander

Dover People's Port

Dover People's Port, or Paper Port?
What is the Dover People's Port? It is a proposal, styled on paper, sometimes referred to as a trust (Dover People's Port Trust). The Dover People's Port was put to paper in 2010 with the intention of presenting it as an alternative to the privatisation plans of Dover Harbour Board (DHB).

Location of the Dover People's Port
The Dover People's Port is not situated anywhere, as it does not exist. The only Port in Dover is the Dover Harbour Board, and consists of two ports, the Eastern Docks and the Western Docks. The seafront between these two docks is also part of the Dover Harbour Board.

Support for Dover People's Port at the Parish Poll
A parish poll held in Dover town on 23 March 2011 saw a staggering 75% of Dover's people declining to take part in the poll, which asked people to choose between the Dover People's Port and the Dover Harbour Board privatisation proposals.

The majority of people in Dover do not accept either proposal, preferring Dover Port to remain a charter port, practically a state asset, with no form of privatisation, neither that proposed by DHB nor the privatisation proposals of the Dover People's Port Trust.

Dover's People and the Port
With 75% of Dover's town residents refusing to vote in the parish poll, the obvious question is: why were the people of Dover not asked in the poll if they want the Port of Dover to remain a State asset? If this question had been asked on the ballot paper, then perhaps the vast majority of people in Dover would have turned out to vote, which would have meant a resounding: No! to the privatisation proposals both of DHB and of the Dover People's Port Trust.

As the obvious question was not asked, the vast majority did not turn up to vote, which equates to a resounding thumbs down to both privatisation proposals concerning the Port of Dover, and as a result, the Dover People's Port project has remained a paper port, its value equal to the paper it is written on.

Article written by D. Alexander

Update:
This Is Kent reported on 17 February 2012 that "BOSSES at the People's Port Trust are stepping up their efforts to take control of the Port of Dover with a massive membership drive.
A total of 55,000 letters are to be sent out to companies and households asking them to join the group for a one-off fee of £10. The People's Port letters will be arriving in the post on March 1st ..."
Three weeks later, 22 March 2012, the Dover Express has reported that only "hundreds respond to People's Port appeal". The 55,000 requests for money were sent not only to Dover's town residents, but all over Dover District, yet even then, the support for this project numbers only hundreds of people.
Hopefully, this dismal response will bring to a final end all illusions on the part of the Dover People's Port Trust to be representative of Dover's community. The privatisation proposal of Dover's port is very unpopular in Dover and in the whole district, whether it is in the form of the Dover Harbour Board proposal, or that of the Dover People's Port Trust.
D. Alexander

Update 2:
On April 20th 2012, managers of Dover People's Port Trust announced that the number of people who have sent in a membership application together with the required £10 is over a thousand, specifying that only 1% of the population of Dover town and district have joined. 

This very low number of members of a widely publicised trust that claims to represent Dover's Community, indicates how shallow their support really is among the communities of Dover town and district. It would be expected the Department for Transport will take note of the public response to Dover People's Port Trust's assertion to be the voice of the local public.

D. Alexander

Update 3:
The Dover People's Port Trust Limited ("DPPT") was created as an industrial and provident society and registered on 23 August 2010 with number 31026R. It is also registered as a charity by HM Revenue & Customs with number XT28458.

Update 4:
On 20th December 2012 the Department for Transport issued a letter to the Chairman of Dover Harbour Board announcing the Dover Harbour Board privatisation bid has been rejected. 

Under the heading Alternative Options, at point 58, the following wording was put: 

One correspondent suggested the creation of a port service toll to fund developments at ports, and to provide funding for the local authorities in which ports were based as well as an income stream for central Government.  The levy would be £50 a vehicle.   

In fact, the proposed levy is £5 per car and £50 per heavy goods vehicle.

The third paragraph in the letter I received from the Department for Transport, written 20th December 2012, states: The (Decision) Minister concluded that the transfer scheme proposed would not ensure a sufficient level of enduring community participation in the port. 
He also concluded that so far as the Board made the application in order to be able to obtain the additional finance necessary to undertake the proposed redevelopment of the Western Docks, there were other options available to secure that development. 

Could one of the other options indicated by the Decision Minister be the one I proposed, and that was mentioned in point 58 of the Decision Minister's reply to Dover Harbour Board?  
D. Alexander Kent, of Kentish origin.
Read on: Dover Port privatisation, how unpopular is the idea of privatising Dover's port?