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Related - Download the letter to Boris Johnson written by Rodney Chambers on 5 March 2010.
Hardly a decade has elapsed since the last proposal for a Thames Estuary airport was rejected as financially unjustifiable due to the enormous construction and infrastructure costs involved. The local job-creation argument was exposed as disingenuous, since skilled workers for large-scale projects are often recruited elsewhere, as demonstrated by current activities on the Isle of Grain. I recall that only one international airline was then prepared to operate east of London; that airline later filed for insolvency. Every other airline insisted on a more centrally located airport such as Heathrow. The current proposals will, undoubtedly, again meet with overwhelming opposition from the voters of north Kent and south Essex, who, understandably, refuse to tolerate the blight upon their lives throughout the 10-15 year building phase and the subsequent environmental nuisance of jet engine noise and associated pollution over a conurbation of some 500,000 people. I would ask what has changed to cause a project deemed unjustifiable and unaffordable, at £14bn, by every serious financial and scientific consultant advising the UK Government in 2003, to be moved a few miles and suddenly become affordable at £70bn today. Finally may I say how regrettable it is, that you have chosen to waste your considerable talent on this unattainable idea, while many parts of our capital city, under your stewardship, remain crime-ridden, litter-infested, graffiti-polluted slums, served by an inadequate, outdated transport system and failing schools turning out a disturbing number of illiterate, innumerate, disaffected young people with little to contribute to the future of their community but social unrest.