| Topic: | Airbrushing of history | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 11/02/15 08:37:00 |
| "the environmental lobby" The environmental lobby do not want new road tunnels under London justified by fairy stories about white vans, end of story. They're your allies here. I could introduce you to the Campaign for Better Transport and London's leading Green politicians if you want and they could explain this. "Such schemes may well include major tunnels and major urban motorways that were dismissed when Cecil Parkinson was Secretary of State for Transport and Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister on grounds of cost, respect for the environment, security, safety and political common sense. " You forget a few things here: - your own party's role in commissioning all the 1980s studies (set up after Thatcher abolished the GLC which was full square opposed to new London roadbuilding) - your own party in Hammersmith & Fulham which started the whole idea of putting a massive tunnel portal in Chiswick without asking us - your own party's Mayoralty which commissioned the Roads Task Force after the 2012 election and is now talking with complete ignorance of history about building new roadspace in West London for congestion relief, as if the entire last 40 years hadn't happened. The road lobby never die, they come back with this every 20 years. As ever, David's breathtaking airbrushing of history would raise eyebrows in the old Soviet Union, but that's the modern Conservative Party for you. Perhaps you could get down off the high horse and get Mary Macleod to stop running around claiming she's got the Turnham Green Piccadilly Line stop and start standing up for her constituency against this nonsense before it's too late? "Boris can afford to support such visionary schemes knowing that he will shortly be moving onto other possibly even greater things." Would you vote for him as party leader knowing that he now supports building massive motorways through Chiswick? He doesn't satisfy the residency requirement for the US Presidency, by the way, and would also have to give up UK citizenship as candidates cannot legally owe loyalty to a foreign monarch - that's kind of the point of the USA. The big turd Boris is leaving us with is having to refight old battles about the 'inevitability' that London's traffic will rise and we have to demolish London to build space for it - we don't and we shouldn't, as the last 15 years experience in London shows. |