KATIE HOPKINS: London’s biggest noise pollution problem isn’t Heathrow, it’s the loud whining of a bunch of rich liberals who won’t put Britain first

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It must be great living in London mustn't it? They are the first to have everything; from free concerts to 5G, proper transport to world-class hospitals and city salaries.

In fact, London receives more funding from the public purse than every other English region put together; £5,305 per person, compared to UK average of £3,192 per person.

Despite having more businesses and more start-up businesses than any other region (the capital has 470 businesses and 98 start-ups per 10,000 residents) London still receives the most infrastructure investment.

You get my drift. In my native Devon, we are still communicating via coke cans and bits of string. 

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You buy a home near an airport, you can expect it to expand, writes Katie Hopkins. Pictured are the proposed plans for the third runway at London Heathrow Airport

A lovely young electrician from an energy company came to fit a Smart Meter into my house (against my advice). 

He told me it would have to be a dumb meter, because we just didn't have the connectivity.

Frankly, it is surprising we even have sanitation. Most homes have made their outdoor toilet into an extra bit of kitchen. 

Many of us still eat road kill to avoid a weekly trip to Sainsbury's.

But I am not complaining because I choose to live here, and commute like a crazy woman to earn a wage. 

I choose to put my children in the place of my birth, because I want them to have the childhood I had; beaches, rolling countryside and plenty of smiling old people waiting patiently to die.

And that's the thing about the third runway at Heathrow. Here in the Rest of Britain, (a foreign country to London), we made our choices.

We swapped cheap public transport, for living near family and friends. And gave up decent wages for a better life, lived well.

If you bought your house at a place called Gatwick or Heathrow, expect there to be some planes. If you need a clue, when you go to a house viewing, look up.

The proposed new runway is in Harmondsworth, pictured. If you don't like the sound or planes or the noise of them, an airport locale is not the place for you

In 1930, an aircraft builder, Richard Fairey paid £15,000 to the vicar of Harmondsworth for a 150-acre to build a private airport, the Great West aerodrome.

The proposed new runway is in, you guessed it, Harmondsworth. 

So I don't wish to be a stickler for detail, but unless you bought your house before 1930, I've little sympathy with your plight.

You buy a home near an airport, you can expect it to expand. And if you don't like the sound or planes or the noise of them, an airport locale is not the place for you.

In fact, the government are going to be paying generous compulsory purchase sums to those needing to up sticks and relocate.

In the 13 years since the third runway was proposed, house prices in Harmondsworth have jumped nearly 75 per cent, pushing the compensation cost to home owners up £55 million to nearly £1.5 billion.

People with homes subject to compulsory purchase receiving 125 per cent of full market value for their homes, plus stamp duty, legal fees and moving costs. Where I live, that's called an opportunity.

I've spotted a lovely four bed detached house with a garage and garden in my neck of the woods is £330,000. 

So if it's the countryside you're going to miss, move south and you'll be the wealthiest homeowner in the village.

It is all very well for Zac Goldsmith, pictured, to throw his teddies out of his pram and flounce off to the warm embrace of his wealthy London constituents

We need to accept there are always going to be decisions the government makes we don't like. These are for the greater good.

My own town has allegedly block-sold social housing to councils in Birmingham, Bradford and other unsavoury places in the country, queue jumping locals desperately in need of a home. 

My friends have changed the name of the new development from Cranbrook to Crimebrook in their honour.

Other parts of the country are equally impacted. Fifteen, four-hundred-foot wind turbines in Greater Manchester are either recommended for planning application approval or being built. 

Local residents are furious. They bought their houses completely unaware they were near a future green energy paradise.

One minute they were walking their dogs admiring the view. The next a bunch of liberal do-gooders who recycle their used tea bags into tampons had whacked up thundering great turbines in their back yard, to meet our carbon commitment to the E.U.

A cute little village of 6,000 locals where I used to take violin lessons as a child, about as multicultural as Cornwall, has just accepted 70 'kids' from Calais (most of whom have beards and arthritis). 

Stuck in the middle of nowhere without a passing truck for distraction, I am at a loss how this decision was ever made.

My point is that these things happen. To all of us. And most don't buy our house with the subtle hint of a flight taking off and landing every 45 seconds to give us due warning.

It is all very well for Zac Goldsmith to throw his teddies out of his pram and flounce off to the warm embrace of his wealthy London constituents, resigning his seat in Parliament.

I am pretty sure this has less to do with principles than swerving a tonne of wealthy widows in Waitrose, bating for his blood.

In his area, average second-hand sale prices in the year to May 2016 were £975,000, against £566,000 in London as a whole. A four bed semi-detached house near the town centre costs £2million.

So I can tell you Zac - from the Rest of England - we don't feel your pain. Your problems are more first world than Beyoncé's.

We are the 52 per cent. And we are sick of hearing from liberal London and tired of Sadiq Khan, pictured, lording it about on taxpayers cash, whilst milking his son of an immigrant bus driver status

We are the 52 per cent. And we are sick of hearing from liberal London, tired of Emma Thompson of telling us what to think about the environment, or Sadiq Khan lording it about on taxpayers cash, whilst milking his son of an immigrant bus driver status.

He says the airport will be bad for noise pollution, bad for air pollution and bad for London.

Tough luck Sadiq. It is time London took one for the team. Look at it as a payoff for the extra £2,000 per head of public spending Londoners receive.

The Airports Commission have estimated that Heathrow expansion will create up to 179,800 jobs and up to £211billion in regional benefits across the UK by 2050.

Finally, the Rest of Britain will see their share of the pie. Heathrow has proposed six new routes to Belfast International, Liverpool, Newquay, Humberside, Prestwick and Durham Tees Valley.

Given house prices in Richmond and London as a whole, I think a little extra noise in the city is a small price to pay. 

And if the taxpayer is paying for your council house, then perhaps this is a good opportunity to move somewhere quieter and more affordable for hard-working Brits who pay your rent.

I asked the Rest of Britain what they thought about politicians and Londoners dithering over the third runway at Heathrow. 

Seventy per cent said 'quit bleating and get it built'.

Remoaners, this is the Brexiteers speaking - build us a third runway. Put up, shut up or get up and move.