What a neighbour we have in Heathrow

There was a letter headed ‘Third Runway planned but no noise relief’ from Cllr John Bowden in the Advertiser of November 3.

It was about some Heathrow PR nonsense called ‘The Council for the Independent Scrutiny of Heathrow Airport’.

And with a name like that you know it needs a lovely acronym – it’s CISHA.

I have my own more appropriate acronym for it and it’s ALOB (use your imagination).

At this particular CISHA, a Harlington resident enquired whether the ludicrous third runway (LTR) was still going ahead and the CEO, John Holland Kaye (let’s name the guilty man) said it would!

So, despite there being a real climate emergency and Zoom conferencing has massively expanded, making face-to-face meetings less necessary, still the idiots at Heathrow insist on going ahead with a third runway.

I wonder if in the future our descendents will be appearing as holograms in a virtual Advertiser complaining about Heathrow’s plans for a FIFTH runway?

Cllr Bowden reminds us that the third runway was granted planning permission back in 2017…and let us not forget who was PM when that permission was granted.

It was of course our very own Christmas card competition judge, Theresa May, who followed David ‘No Ifs No Buts No Third Runway’ Cameron.

And of course the Conservatives’ very own fluffy-haired Latin scholar, despite promising to lay down in front of the bulldozers, failed to even lay down in front of Mrs May.

It seems so long ago now though, doesn’t it?

Actually, I very much sympathise with a Windsor resident called Andrew Hall who regularly writes letters to the Advertiser about jets flying at 948 feet at 2.17am or maybe 724 feet at 3.05 am over Windsor. He politely asks why Heathrow permits it. The reason of course is that Holland Kaye and his mob don’t give a damn about the noise and pollution misery they cause to millions of people, including Windsor residents.

All they really care about is maximising profits for Heathrow, whilst grandly insisting it’s absolutely essential for maintaining ‘The UK Economy’.

Finally, we must never forget that the neighbour from hell was one of the main UK delivery points for COVID-19.

And as reported in the Advertiser, a Heathrow jet was even found to have dropped excrement on Windsor – although admittedly it was the frozen variety.

So never mind the CISHA (or ALOB as I call it), that one act alone demonstrates just how much Heathrow really cares about its neighbours.

MALCOLM STRETTEN Boulters Lane

Maidenhead