IT IS all very well for Mr McDonnell to call on parliament to review its laws on cemeteries as they come under threat from developers (Push for law to protect the dead, Hayes and Harlington Gazette, April 7), but in calling for this and using Cherry Lane as an example, he seems to forget that it is his very own Labour government that plans to demolish Cherry Lane Cemetery to make way for its third runway.
Mr McDonnell cannot possibly be confident that 'we have fought off the threat to our local cemetery'.
His government has made it clear that, despite the recent ruling by the High Court that the consultation was flawed, they will still push on with plans for the third runway at Heathrow.
I wonder when Mr McDonnell will stop hoodwinking his residents into thinking that he can actually do anything about this and wake up and realise that the only way that a third runway will be stopped - and thus Cherry Lane Cemetery saved - is to pray for the election of a Conservative government, which has pledged to scrap all plans for a third runway.
Let's hope Mr McDonnell's prayers are answered on May 6.
HELEN PASCOE Drayton Gardens
West Drayton
