Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
It's very important to conflate unrelated matters in a random way to make an argument. That's very important. Somehow....
The money that LHR brings in must be very small, mere pennies, and who needs all those jobs anyway?
Hint : If you want to pay for Social Care then you need a commercial revenue stream flooding into a strong economy. Wittering on about edge cases like Caracas is classic #whataboutery
The pretense here is that core national infrastructure like railways, airports, nuclear power etc are in some way purely commercial enterprises. That does not stack up given 2 seconds of serious thought. They're commercial but intrinsically linked into public infrastructure, stop pretending they're not. TfL et al are massively inflating costs because, they are *ANGLING FOR THE BIGGEST BUDGET SETTLEMENT POSSIBLE*. It's in their interests to inflate to (in some cases), frankly silly levels of cost.
But yeah, cos HS2 is insane, then LHR must be too.
Have you been through an American airport of late? Is that the model you are advocating?
Well I think you are way off the mark if you think Heathrow is flooding the exchequer with taxes to pay for the NHS, social Care , Education, Police etc.
Any profit goes direct to shareholders and they are ALL offshore, as for corporation tax, its not paid any for years.
Again I'm no friend of The Mirror but facts are facts.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heathrow-airport-owners-120m-tax-14021838