Well my lad and his family live in Richmond (I once lived in Barnes for 18 months and did my degree at plane-afflicted Imperial College). The residents tend to accept the plane noise with equanimity on the whole but I imagine the majority are ardently opposed to the runway and accompanying environmental devastation. As such, a vote for Goldsmith is a vote for the Tories is a vote for the runway, in spite of his personal opposition. You could hardly see the spoilt racist politics-for-recreation brat siding with anyone else, could you? Not fussy, those Tories, are they? Anything to whittle down their effective majority will do me.