Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
This silly story has finally emerged on the News and Star website
Well they certainly took their time - interesting to note though that they haven't included the "flogging a dead horse" line.
There was a backlash on social media to her original comments that were published by the BBC last week, and she chose to double-down on them in yet another article published on
Cumbria Crack on Wednesday.
"Realistically, people aren't going to get on a plane and go on holiday, they are going to have get on a little plane to go to another airport to transfer. Isn't it easier to travel to Glasgow or Manchester and just get on the plane where you're going to."
This sentence alone aptly demonstrates that she clearly doesn't know what she's talking about, or that someone else has perhaps lent on her and put her up to the job of coming out to say this.
If Esken are/were ultimately hoping to sell CAX on, then they've succeeded in significantly reducing the value of the site by allowing this woman to speak as she has.
"If someone's got a plan that will make behind the airport that will work, we're absolutely behind it, we're not anti-airport. We just think there's an awful lot of challenges and lots of reasons for it not to work - it's not the biggest priority,"
To me, this reads that she (well, the Chamber organisation that she purports to represent...!) basically wants someone else to do the hard work and she/they'll try to claim all the credit for making it a success if/when the airport flourishes afterwards.