We'd like a carbon neutral flying train please.

While I'm on the environmentalist war path I will just briefly continue with another point.

Lord Adonis recently hyped up a new train track that would take high speed trains from London to the North of England.

Now you're probably expecting me to slate it and say that the government is incompetent and they should have done bla bla bla. But no, I'm not.

Frankly I think it is an excellent idea. Lord Adonis, far from being a stuck up pretentious prat who has never done a day of hard work in his life is actually the son of a Greek Cypriot immigrant and through his own talent, skill, hard work and blessing (a LEA grant) manged to get himself to Keable College Oxford. As such he has my respect. But that isn't a reason for endorsing his idea. No, that just comes from good sense.

What wasn't impressive was the title the Times went with when reporting the storey. It ran with how it was going to cut up the countryside and as a result the world would be a worse place (I paraphrase).

Now let me just check, what are we meant to do? If we drive out nice luxury saloon from London to the North the Greens will consider us the spawn or all that is evil. If we try to build a train that can get us there quickly and efficiently (rather than using the 18th century relic we have at the moment) then we're cutting up the countryside. And if we fly over the country side so that there is no need for either new roads or new tracks then we are supporting those evil air transport companies who so cruelly provide fast, cheap (essentially public) transport and skilled jobs for pilots and air craft control.

So the strong clear message here is stay in your homes and don't leave... especially if you live on a hill, if you do walking back your heart rate will increase and that will cause you to increase the CO2 you're producing.

It is time to face facts; people need to travel, get over it! The sooner people do get over it and accept that modern life necessitates travel then the sooner we can start focusing on which type is best so we can plough a fat wod of cash into it and make it work properly. If it is trains then great, planes great, small light cars, whatever I don't care. Just quit whining about it and get one with it. All this complaining is just pointless, besides getting stressed increases your heart rate and that increases the amount of carbon you're wasting. So shut up and calm down. Thanks.

We invented the train and yet at the moment with all the complaining the Chinese are making much better trains than we are! A few years ago they were on horse and cart and now they are travelling at 200mph in a train. We, mean while, are moaning because the new train track will have to be built within 500 miles of our house. Oh and in case you're wondering I live about 500m from a railway line and I have never once cared in my life, excluding the times I would specifically watch the trains go by when I was young.