White cliffs of Dover is up for sale

[fullyautomatix]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...duce-debt.html

What else is left to sell off? I mean, can this be called scraping the barrel ? Gordon still needs to repay £ 830 billion somehow.

[NickFitz]

Other major ports were sold off under the 1991 Ports Act, but Dover was retained because of uncertainty over how construction of the Channel Tunnel might affect it.

That's Tory policies for you...

[AtW]

Other major ports were sold off under the 1991 Ports Act, but Dover was retained because of uncertainty over how construction of the Channel Tunnel might affect it.

That's Tory policies for you...

So, a policy of retaining well known big port as a UK property was bad...

Who owns Dunkirk just now?

[OwlHoot]

The cliffs of Dover are riddled with a vast network of tunnels, some dating back to medieval times but most built during the Napoleonic wars to defend against the French.

I imagine if they could have guessed Gordon Brown would sell Dover to the French anyway, they wouldn't have bothered.

(Mind you, in fairness, Richard the Lionheart said he would sell London if he could find a buyer.)

[NickFitz]

So, a policy of retaining well known big port as a UK property was bad...

Who owns Dunkirk just now?

You seem to have missed the point: all the other ports have already been sold off by the Tories, so it's rank hypocrisy for a Tory-supporting newspaper (or any Tory supporter) to complain about another government finishing the job.

[NickFitz]

The cliffs of Dover are riddled with a vast network of tunnels, some dating back to medieval times but most built during the Napoleonic wars to defend against the French.

The story isn't about the cliffs of Dover anyway: that's just the usual rabble-rousing headline from the Mail which concedes, throughout the rest of the story,that it's the Port of Dover which is to be sold.

[AtW]

You seem to have missed the point: all the other ports have already been sold off by the Tories, so it's rank hypocrisy for a Tory-supporting newspaper (or any Tory supporter) to complain about another government finishing the job.

Dover surely is the crown jewel of ports with great history. Is there any such port in the UK?

[NickFitz]

Dover surely is the crown jewel of ports with great history. Is there any such port in the UK?

Dover is a grotty little ferry terminal. Liverpool is a port.

[AtW]

Dover is a grotty little ferry terminal. Liverpool is a port.

And Dunkirk?

[NickFitz]

And Dunkirk?

How would I know? Do I look like a Frenchman?

I know they did a crap job of keeping the ferries running in 1940, so we were forced to provide our own. Sadly, not everybody was rescued