No moral high ground for nimbys who hit the roof over missile plans

THE Government may want to put water meters in every home in the country, but look at it this way: At least they don’t have plans for putting surface-to-air missiles on the roof of any of our negative equity homes.

The British government, in contrast, has active plans in that direction, because of hosting the Olympics. The chosen homeowners have been contacted by the powers that be through the pleasingly old-fashioned medium of a leaflet. This leaflet notifies the residents in a high-rise apartment building that their edifice has been chosen by virtue of height and location as the place where soldiers will be billeted during the Games and on top of which surface-to -air missiles will be placed, all the better to protect London and its environs from any terrorist attacks which might happen during such a globally high-profile event.

The buildings apparently boast an uninterrupted view of the sky, thereby providing just the right environment for weaponry designed to take out incoming armaments or rogue planes.