Rather loose quoting, I must admit, but I think the sense of it is there

[ewx]

"Northampton [...] fills me with rising sense of panic"

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[gerald_duck]

This may just have been a Labour government trying to scare people in John Major's old constituency, but for a while they appeared to be contemplating turning the old RAF Alconbury airbase (20 miles NW of Cambridge) into London Alconbury.

At that distance, they might as well call it Very East Midlands Airport, or Wolverhampton International, or…