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Send Ruth Kelly a birthday message
Posted by tracy on 9 May 2008.
It’s Transport Minister Ruth Kelly's 40th birthday, and just now seven women from Sipson were at the Department for Transport to give her a birthday cake. But the message is less traditional, it's a big fat, creamy, sugary NO – well that's the shape of the cake anyway. They also sang happy birthday in the reception and staff got NO cupcakes.
You too can send Ruth Kelly a birthday message. She's in charge of Heathrow expansion, so send her a message asking her to join the Make a NOise carnival on May31st.
Geraldine Nicholson from Sipson was one of the women who sang Happy Birthday for Kelly. She said: "They say life begins at forty, but for our village life will end if Ruth Kelly gives the green light to a third runway. They don’t seem very interested in the fight to save our village or the wider climate change implications of a third runway."
Come on Ruth, we've got God on our side. The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is backing the carnival. He's almost given up flying and will be writing a letter of support to be read out at the event because he has other commitments at the time. But you could say he will be there in spirit.
Or perhaps, Ruth, you can be swayed by the former executive of British Airways. Bob Ayling came out against the 3rd runway this week saying it "is against Britain's economic interests".
In the Times he wrote: "This is a classic exercise in misguided central planning. What Ruth Kelly, the transport secretary, and the government do not see is that the transfer passengers, for whom such a hub would be built, spend no money in Britain, at least little beyond the price of a cup of tea, and Heathrow as an interchange is already so far behind its rivals that it is out of the game."
Ayling explains that the hub-and-spoke model which assumes Heathrow can act as an interchange for passengers is contributing to the bankruptcy or almost every US airline.
But really Ruth, the most important reason to come out to the carnival on the 31st is to hear what Londoners think about your plans to expand Heathrow.
