It is a fairly horrible thing to find oneself on the same side of the fence as that gabbling imbecilic hag, Janet Street-Porter. The sort of occurrence which makes you question your entire belief system. But her article today about the ludicrous plan to build a vast airport on the Isle of Grain is absolutely correct, in pretty much every respect.
I don’t quite see why the entire south-east of England should be tarmaced over and used as a sort of giant public convenience for London. The Isle of Grain is one of the few areas south of the Wash which is of genuine environmental importance (rather than being one of those mimsy Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which usually means over-farmed fields and honeystone cottages). It is a bleak, majestic and rather wonderful neck of the woods (and nowhere near where I live, btw, in case you should be reaching for the word ‘Nimby’). If London needs a new airport let them put it in Kensington Palace Gardens, using Notting Hill as the terminal building.
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