The announcement yesterday of the Government’s support for the expansion of Heathrow to include a new third runway have obviously generated a lot of heated comment on both sides of the argument.
Personally I support the position that our Shadow Transport Secretary Theresa Villiers has taken, and new investment in high-speed rail to the north of England is cleaner, greener, more effective and more sensible than the unsustainable expansion of Heathrow.
My thoughts, however, are with the good people of the village of Sipson, where 700 homes, together with livelihoods, shops, pubs and even a cemetary, would be bulldozed to make way for the expansion. I didn’t get into politics to destroy communities and here in 2009 I simply don’t see how tearing and entire village and community of 1500-odd people apart at the seams can possibly be the right or justified thing to do.
I thought I’d also quickly draw your attention to this must-read post from David Ottewell on the Transport Secretary’s announcements yesterday. Yet again we have been let down by the Labour Government on transport funding. Not good enough, Mr Hoon.
Yes quite.
And we should never have let Manchester grow into the little village of Salford, disturbing its way of life and all. Someone should have stopped that nasty industrial revolution in its tracks.
And we should never have let the pleasant villages of Finchley and Golders Green be disturbed by nasty underground railway systems.
And poor old Buckinghamshire, we should never have disturbed its pleasant villages by building Milton Keynes.
And don’t get me started on those hooligans who built motorways up and down the country disturbing England’s villages like that.
What was wrong with the dark ages anyway?
Why do you keep deleting people’s comments Iain?
I’ve not deleted anyone’s comments – they are held in a moderation queue until I have an opportunity to review them.
Hoon marched his tartan army through the lobby again to win the runway vote. does no one ever connect thar Gordon Brown cannot order a runway built in scotland? if only English mp’s had voted the vote would have been lost.
to date in England we have student top up feesand foundation hospitals thanks to the scottish mafia. when is something going to be done about them?. as you can see from the letters, the public are calling out for an English Parliament.