UK Finance Minister Alistair Darling must ignore the pro-nuclear lobbyist in the Times, London

What Mr Darling should meet is the basic, universally applicable requirements of good governance and to start by telling the truth about where most of the big sums of public expenditure have been going and why there is persistent and rising in come disparity in the UK population and why there is such persistent dependence on human resources and cheap labour from other, relatively less affluent countries. Anatole Kaletsky has made a seriously illogical and economically untenable series of statements in this piece. There is no case for Crossrail as it is in the current CrossRail hole Bill [the 'Crossrail Bill' in the UK House of Commons]. There most emphatically is no case at all for funding another waster of very scarce public resource, and to the tune of over £20 Billion which is what CrossRail will cost at 2005 prices.