BNP

Dear Mr Botley

Thank you for seeking my opinion on environmental issues. I think the enclosed letter will explain my solution to the lack of jobs on the Romney Marsh.

A couple of years ago I sent a similar letter to the 'Herald' in response to a letter printed promoting the Lydd expansion. It did not get printed. I revised the letter and sent it off a fortnight later. Again it did not get printed. The 'Herald' - I believe - especially when you read into their 'unbiased' opinion they are actually promoting it. The Shepway Council in my opinion are all for it too. A couple of months ago the 'Kentish Express' did print my letter although somewhat edited together with a photo of the Romney Marsh Potato Co.

I don't buy the 'Herald' any more, nor does my son - we read it in the library.

About three months ago I wrote to Stephen Ladyman who appeared on TV regarding the controversy over a village in the West Country that was going to be bisected by a much needed by-pass - right through a village and organic farm I might add. I reminded him that the Channel Tunnel is some 23 miles long and the average by-pass is no more than two miles long. So why not build a tunnel under the village? Of course that would be too cheap and two easy - it seems to me that this concrete obsessed government is determined to destroy even more green belt land.

Another item in my letter was regarding the traffic congestion in Canterbury City centre - nothing has improved over the years despite millions of pounds spent on road works, it is still the same. I told him that his government receives nearly £50 billion per annum from the motorist one way or another and yet road building and maintenance spending is not much more than £8 billion a year. I am sure he had an apoplectic fit when he saw that my letter was printed on British National Party notepaper and suggestions that we should not give so much to the EU and asylum seekers and immigrants (where else would the Labour party get their votes from if not from these people flooding our islands) - instead start a National Underground Railway system.

This has got to be investigated as a viable opposition to building more roads which inevitably get clogged up with more cars and lorries. A large chunk out of the motorists taxes could fund a starter system in Canterbury and gradually extend to all the towns in Kent. This would provide many thousands of jobs for the construction workers and thousands of jobs for the people who run the railway.

I live about twenty miles from Canterbury and it takes me 30 minutes to get there by car and probably the same time trying to park. If there were an underground station in Hythe I could walk to it in ten minutes get on a train and be in Canterbury with hundreds of other passengers in less than twenty minutes.

Before I go I was informed that my letter had been forwarded to the Kent Highway Authority who thanked me for my suggestions and that the situation in Canterbury was under control and that they were putting in new cycle tracks.

Yours sincerely

2 March 2007

Dear Mr Ewing

Apart from the controversy of expanding a reasonably small airport into a fully operational trans-Atlantic on so close to a nuclear power station and an internationally acclaimed habitat for bird and wildlife suggests the hypocrisy we are getting from our so called representatives is becoming crystal clearer by the day.

First we have the arch-hypocrite Cameron cycling to work whilst his Lexus is driven out of sight behind him and his traipsing around the globe preaching about low energy light bulbs. Then we come to Blair who never intends to give up his many freebie holidays abroad but is intent on stopping everyone else from doing so. Politicians driving around in their £50,000 Jaguars (twelve recently ordered) of course paid by the long suffering taxpayer preaching about global warming. Pictures of government offices with their lights on day and night seven days a week. It is a question of 'don't do as I do - do as I say'. History tells me nothing has changed.

Is there really a need for a larger airport on the assumption that it would greatly increase the employment rate when statistics prove that these airlines run on a shoestring with the minimum of staff? You can bet your life that the majority of these staff will be Eastern European as they have been undercutting the wages of British workers ever since Poland joined the EU two years ago.

I belong to a rapidly increasing political party that has seen through the lies and smears of three tired old parties who are all in it for the money and power it provides together with their gold plated pensions. We are supposed to be living in a Democracy where the majority have their say. A newspaper poll in 2005, showed that 34% were in favour of the expansion whilst the unheard majority of 66% were against it. Yet it is still being proposed.

My political party stands for the Nation and puts everything that Britain stands for and that includes opposing the assault on rural Britain. What have our grandchildren and future generations got to look forward to if we build everywhere so that a minority would find it easier to travel to an airport? Even Manston is underused.

Two years ago I wrote a letter (twice) to the Herald giving a green alternative to the proposed airport expansion. They never printed it as I believe they along with Shepway Council are biased for some reason. But I digress.

Romney Marsh has many thousands of acres of arable farmland and the potential growth of produce there is enormous. With the demise of the Romney Marsh Potato Co. which added to the unemployment situation in the area I suggested in my letter that the RMP Co should seek a government grant to open up a frozen food factory.

The RMP Co has all the infrastructure in place with a 150,000 square foot warehouse in situ and an added bonus of their own borehole on site. As you can see from the enclosed letter the owners would even give a rent free period for the venture.

Farmers would be encouraged to grow the right type of potato to freeze, carrots, peas, beans - any type of vegetable that can be frozen and soft fruits could add to this list. The farmers could even deliver it to the local premises without going half way around the globe. If I had the money I would certainly see this as a very attractive enterprise. Let us see who the 'Green Hypocrites' are

Yours sincerely

The end of a letter a sent to the Kent on Sunday

Before I wrote my letter I visited all of the major supermarkets and watched as the frozen food - especially the chips and roast potatoes - vanished from the freezer. No one seems to cook fresh chips these days.

Apart from frozen potatoes, carrots, beans, cauliflower, peas, turnips - you name it - it can only be good news, and even soft fruits could all be grown in Britain's back yard giving local farmers the incentive and a much needed boost to the local economy - it would not have to be flown half way around the world. All local produce. If the food is put in bags with a Union Flag on it I am sure it will fly out of the freezers. Nothing could be more environmentally friendly.

NO noise or pollution. NO destruction of wild life habitats. NO threat of a nuclear power station collision. NO flying it half way around the globe. NO destruction of the countryside. Completely green!

With a warehouse of some 150,000 square feet and all the infrastructure in place at Cockreed Lane they certainly have the capacity to venture into this field.

This exciting new development would provide many more jobs compared to what the destructive airport project would have to offer.

Yours sincerely

Harry Williams