Boo to the geese
The Stansted campaigners won more than their own campaign. in fact : they won the campaign for all inland sites for a third Lon- don airport. When the chips were down, only the lovers of Brent geese have tried to stop Foulness. Bird-lovers have few votes. birds none. The Roskill Commission was an ap- palling waste of money and of time and of completely misguided and misplaced effort. The commissioners also got the answer wrong; always excepting. of course. Colin .Buchanan and his minority report. Com- monsense prevails, expert commissioners are confounded, and the power of the Whips to say 'No' to the Government—which is the power of the Commons and the Vords—against the wishes of a very powerful Ministry and of the Treasury itself has had a welcome and much-needed demonstra- tion.
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