What a turncoat

What did we fight against the proposed reservoir for for 20 years, or the proposed airport? To protect the countryside, to save our natural heritage from destruction. A ghastly “garden city” would be far worse for rural contentment than the reservoir.

Come back, Thames Water, all is forgiven!

Destroying the countryside to get the economy back on track is a short-term fix, leaving us with maybe a sounder economy but with sterility and destitution of nature’s soul for future generations. Gildas, who bemoaned the destruction of Britain in the sixth century, must be turning in his grave.

The answer is, leave what we are led to believe is the only open area in the southern counties alone, of which J E Vincent wrote in 1906 in Highways and Byways of Berkshire, “such width of view as is rarely to be seen in England”.

I hope our MP Ed Vaizey will vigorously oppose this latest crass stupidity from central government, as should everyone else who wants to live in the countryside.

C Spinage

Stanford Road

Faringdon