It is always a pleasure to receive letters, notes and emails from 'the big guys,' especially those of a more polemical nature.
In this vein, From Under the Stone was delighted to receive a letter from Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (and Herald letters page regular) Donald Worsley.
Kent County Council (almost totally blue) favour building a lorry park capable of holding thousands of vehicles in the countryside near Sellindge to help alleviate motorway problems associated with Operation Stack. Opposition to this proposal has predictably been near unanimous.
Michael Howard MP recently announced that the proposed lorry park would be built "over my dead body." In a letter dated November 18, Mr Worsley welcomes Mr Howard to the fold:
Howard’s Interment.
So at long last Michael Howard has seen the light and now finally opposes the unwanted Lorry Park at Sellindge.
Shame he didn’t make his views known before the County Council elections in June returned dozens of Tory Councillors hell bent on concreting over the green fields of Sellindge and polluting the village with Juggernauts and diesel fumes.
If he truly opposes the building of Britain’s biggest Truck Stop in his own back field then he should now park himself at County Hall until his Tory colleagues there withdraw their planning proposals and halt their groveling appeasement of the Road Transport lobby.
Martyrdom takes more than just laying down one's ageing body to stop the march of the Leviathan. It takes sincerity, commitment and above all a zeal that the present MP for Folkestone and Hythe certainly hasn’t shown in the past.
Michael Howard is entitled to a peaceful retirement after 25 years service to the constituency. He does not deserve to end his days run down by the County Council’s bulldozers.
But welcome to the fight Michael and welcome to the committed thousands ready to lay down their bodies next to you if Cllr Carter and County Hall don’t get the clear message that Sellindge will fight the Juggernaut Park with its every last breath.
Donald Worsley
Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Folkestone & Hythe
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