to John Davison

Dear John

This is a most helpful email and, as always, you are so right in what you have written.

However, it is the phenomenal expense of building tramways in Scotland and England that has taken billions of pounds in construction when that public money could have been better spent on modernising the existing railway network and bringing the Beeching closures back into use, rather than completely destroying them for buildings, roads, farmland and trams.

A brand new railway that only stops at one station, Brum Airport, between Old Oak Common and Curzon St and, costing at least £66 billion is a scandalous way to waste precious resources and to accelerate the climate emergency that is not being treated as a climate emergency at all!

For this reason, I think it is legitimate to call it High Scam 2 fast to stop at any useful station.  Is that fair enough, John?

Our taxes are being used for the wrong priorities; economic policy means economic greed from a diminishing capital resource base; and, human expansion and domination puts such a strain on life support systems that ecocide is the only correct word to describe our behaviour!

Thanks so much for writing, John.  It would be wonderful for Maggie Simpson to please write to me once more, Maggie!  I will now find her previous email and re-read it.