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Heathrow 3rd runway approved
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7829676.stm
Fucking cunts :mad:
If I could vote on a General Election, the Tories would get my vote just because of this issue.
Good luck to all those who have bought plots of land in the affected area in an effort to stop or at least severely delay the construction of the runway.
Fucking cunts :mad:
If I could vote on a General Election, the Tories would get my vote just because of this issue.
Good luck to all those who have bought plots of land in the affected area in an effort to stop or at least severely delay the construction of the runway.
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Oh wait, they must have left that bit out.
the governement spending shitloads of money on london again
shock fucking horror
Well done to him I say.
Great isn't it. Fuck everyone else as long as the capital is OK.......
In any case it makes much more sense to build a brand new airport offshore. Heathrow is arguably the most hated international airport in the world- virtually nobody likes it. If the airline bosses are that concerned about the loss of investment and income for the nation (LOL!), they should be pressing for the construction of a modern airport with sufficient capacity, instead of endlessly increasing the size of the unloved monster.
I much prefer and quite infact enjoy trains. Infact Im tempted to look up all the places near where Im going to be based that may run steam trains, and perhaps even have a look in at the railway museam in York sometime too.
*MrG 's trains*
On my list.
First of all this week, we had Gordon Brown's much-vaunted "job summit". More like "Save My Job summit", if you ask me. Macavity is apparently going give £2,500 bungs to employers who take on staff in the middle of a recession. And what are these staff going to do exactly? Hasn't it crossed Gorgon's mind that the reason companies are making people unemployed is because there's less work to do? What are they gonna do, employ people to sit on their arses all day? Not to worry, the idea has since been utterly rubbished by numerous people in business. It's a ridiculously expensive and stupid proposal funded by money the Government doesn't have and it won't work anyway - very New Labour, I'd say.
On Tuesday, Andrew Gilligan wrote an article for the London Evening Standard asking how Lord Mandelsnake was able to buy his £2.5million house in a prime location in Central London. Given that this man has already lied on a mortgage application form - a crime that most of us would have been jailed for - I'm appalled that the mainstream media aren't putting this on the front page day after day. Mandy still hasn't answered any questions about this, of course - he's been far too busy at Gordon's summit, of course.
On Wednesday, the Government confirmed that it was nicking one of the Tories solutions to the credit crunch by insuring bank-to-business lending. Funnily enough, Guido Fawkes revealed earlier in the week how Tony McNulty, one of the government's very own ministers, poured a load of dog shit over this idea back in November. Gordon the Magpie shamelessly tells lies about how the Tories would cut public spending and "do nothing" to help "hard-working families" about our problems "which began in America" (I wonder if he'll be saying that line to President Obama next week?) whilst stealing every policy idea the Tories come up with. And they wonder why we don't take them seriously?
Today, what have we got? The Government are ignoring all objections to the new Heathrow runway, (despite the fact we don't fucking need it) the gut-wrenchingly awful Harriet Harman has announced MPs will continue to cover up their expenses, and I haven't even started on her utterly retarded plans to make public services legally bound to narrow the gap between rich and poor. Fucking bastards, the lot of them. As for John McDonnell's alleged "protest" at this matter, where the fuck has he been for the last 12 years? Labour has steamrolled over God-knows how many different groups over that time and he hasn't said a word in protest. Yet when it's in his back yard, things are somehow different. I don't believe a word.
EDIT: I've remembered more crap that's happened. A Labour MP has claimed that dyslexia doesn't exist..
I'm afraid that the bastards have been thinking about this too, Aladdin. In 2008, new planning laws were introduced which allow planning bodies to "disregard" what they term "frivolous" objections to developments. I'm afraid that Alistair McGowan should get back to doing some impressions, as his buying a piece of land like that will almost certainly be considered a "frivolous objection". In other words, it will be ignored.
Please, please, let's have the general election already, let's kick these bastards out of office for another 18 years.
BAA are financing this themselves, the government is not paying for any of it.
Anybody going on about CO2 emissions...CO2 emissions will increase regardless. Air travel WILL increase, it's just that operators will base themselves from Amsterdam or Paris instead, damaging London's economy.
Dont, its shit. There isnt even a bar
Comments please on an email a cynical friend sent.
SG, i agree with you.
An extra runway ALONE would mean planes land sooner and thus burn less fuel.
Heathrow needs another runway to operate properly at today's levels of flights - whether the overall number of flights should be increased is another matter. For pure safety improvement Heathrow needs another runway to operate on todays levels.
Air travel is on the increase and a third of the passengers at Heathrow are just there in transit and will never leave the airport as they switch planes. If Heathrow doesn't expand it simply means other airports in Europe will take away the business.
If you want to reduce air pollution from planes then why don't people start lobbying the two companies that make the planes in the first place.. AirBus and Boeing and get them to make more fuel efficent planes or ones that use alternative fuels.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7817849.stm
I actually think rather then a 3rd runway I'd prefer to see a new airport built as well to ease the burden on Heathrow BUT I don't think building it by the sea is such a great idea UNLESS there was some very high speed rail link built and was affordable to use.
In Madrid it costs just 2 euros to go to the Airport by underground train into the city centre. To get to Gatwick for example is about £10 each way for me.
Building an airport by the sea might be a good idea if the focus was on transit passengers swapping planes. But otherwise I think there's lots of empty space around Chipperfield
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=chipperfield&sll=51.677452,-0.52494&sspn=0.155622,0.439453&ie=UTF8&ll=51.69831,-0.471382&spn=0.150444,0.439453&z=12
And it's close to the M25 and further north of Heathrow.
There's also loads of empty space to the east of Luton Airport so I can't see why Luton Airport hasn't been expanded already to take more flights and bigger planes.
So? If they are just switching planes they aren't leaving the airport hence are barely contributing to the economy, they won't pay duty on any purchases either which reduce the amount they pay into our economy even more.
I still believe that if BA hadn't gone with this London centric flight model and stuck to how it was Heathrow wouldn't be in demand so much. The Government should be looking at encourage domestic travel by other means (that means removing the £6bn they gave the roads this week and putting it into rail instead).
The whole 'billions will be lost' is nothing but scaremongering rubbish from BAA and the airlines. I put it to all of them that billions are already lost by passengers' profound dislike of Heathrow- I know several who will avoid it like the plague if they can help it.
Labour is dead.
***EDIT: I'll be voting Green anyway, but I'd vote Tory before I voted for this government. The fuckers have driven me to this***
You talk big but like the maths teacher says .. show us your working ..
.. if you take away the passengers on the plane that are only changing planes in Heathrow then it means the planes are flying with less people on the plane so airfares would have to go up for everyone to cover fixed costs
If the cost of tickets to the UK goes up 33.3% (to cover the people no longer flying to Heathrow just to change planes) then less people would come here on holiday.
Plus so what if they aren't paying duty, tax is the minority of the transaction ... if you spend £5 at the McDonalds at the airport whilst waiting for your flight it's still £5 going to help pay people's wages and there is such a thing as corporation tax .. plus the income tax from people's wages who are employed by working at the airport ..
And yes there is such a thing as landing fee's, taxes, etc and other such things worked into everyone's ticketing price regardless if they plan to step foot out of the airport or not.
If you're going to quote me and talk big, backup your statements with some numbers ..
Lots of detail there, huh? Been a long week.