Why are the Tories hell-bent on fouling up our countryside?

Your views, please, on the government’s new-found interest in Boris Johnson’s stupid idea of a huge new airport built on the Isle of Grain, in Kent.

Johnson, with his recently acquired catamite, Sir Norman Foster, has been agitating for a new airport to be built for half a decade or more. The favoured scheme right now is to pave over one of Britain’s most important wintering grounds for wildfowl, the Isle of Grain, and reclaim more land from the Thames Estuary.

There is precious little land left in the south-east of England for wildlife; it is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. The north Kent marshes, and a few areas of heathland and forest to the west and south, are all that is left.

I ask — rhetorically, natch — is this the least conservationist Conservative government we have ever seen? The imposition of hideous and ineffective wind turbines within areas of outstanding natural beauty is bad enough. Another airport will confirm them as grasping and amoral philistines.