• I FEAR the father of vicar’s daughter Theresa May will be turning in his grave as 40,000 skeletons are dug up to make way for a high-speed railway that will not work.

So much for reverence for the dead and the sacredness of burial from the time of pre-pottery-paleolithic and Stone­henge to the present.

There is also just about as much reverence for the unfortunate people of Camden as our masters plan trips to the Moon while resting in their deck chairs in the Caribbean, or on board their motor boats at Monaco, or when Jacob Rees-Mogg wisely invests his £150million funds into Cayman Islands, Singapore and Eire just in case Brexit goes badly wrong.

Sir Keir Starmer should feel deeply ashamed of his fence-sitting over HS2. This couldn’t-care-a-damn attitude has now extended to Eversholt Street.

Last Saturday, because Hampstead Road at Mornington Crescent was closed, all traffic was diverted to Eversholt Street, which is hardly a single traffic lane at the best of times.

On Saturday there was a queue of double-deck red buses from one end to the other, bumper to bumper, and this took half-an-hour to clear instead of the usual five minutes.

While sitting, waiting, we were reminded that Margaret Thatcher had said: “Those who use public transport are failures.” Wait till the trouble really begins when Parkway is dug up.

NICHOLAS WOOD
South Hill Park Gardens, NW3