"Quite ironic to discover that Shapps operates under the FAA system. I recently sent him an angry e mail because I nearly lost the sale of my share in an aircraft."
Shapps is Minister of Transport, over a Minister of Aviation.
I raised a question regarding the CAA with my UK M.P. Douglas Ross earlier this year, and very quickly got a satisfactory email response from the Minister of Aviation forwarded to me.
I'm suspicious of the motives for the attacks on Shapps, other than the obvious one that he is accused of trying to prevent airfields being built over, which would affect developers profits.