Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
Well that makes perfect sense once you strip out the tens of thousands of people who pay tax and national insurance via the thousands of businesses linked to the airport. But who needs employment and a world class international hub airport? (We do!) Just a jolly extravagance really, I mean it's not as if we need to trade our way to close a £32.3B deficit and pay down a debt of £1.82TRILLION.
I note these are the good years, we need the money, we really do.
The British ability to have a good moan is legendary, but the economy is beginning to resemble pyramid scheme, sometimes real infrastructure investment is really what you need
But you are now talking as though i want to shut Heathrow down, that's complete nonsense, infact I would go further and suggest if it wishes to expand by all means make a reasonable contribution to the infrastructure that relates very specifically to that expansion.
I'm simply making the point that if we had a pot of £20bn i suspect the public and the majority of MPs would support that spend on more pressing cases for that money than rail and road infrastructure at Heathrow.
The majority of MPs did support LHR expansion but if you were to ask them today where should we spend that money I suspect 99% would say the NHS. Graying was very clear "no public money for Heathrow", he conned the public and he conned the thickos in the House of Commons, all of them.
I'll wager you haven't sat in AE recently but trust me the service really is absolutely broke.