The question posed by John Williams about the lack of StopHS2 campaigners is a good one. After all, who wants such intrusion right on their doorstep?

So on the face of it that seems important.

But closer examination suggests an answer. In polite terms, let’s say the majority of people are completely indifferent. Bluntly, they don’t give a stuff. And, unfortunately, for the StopHS2 campaigners, a lot of people have done well out of property purchase compensation and rightly so. As usual the politicians have lost the plot.

They have preferred the easy route of chucking our money at supporting legal action. What they should have been doing was getting us better HS2 recompense beyond the current 60 metre band. And, for his part, Mr Williams has got his numbers wrong too, peddling StopHS2 misinformation.

He could recognise there has never been a better time to accept that HS2 is the most important infrastructure project of his old, and our younger generations.

With his approach we would have never had the motorways, railways, canals or even sewers. — Alan Snaith, Chalfont St Giles