skyman771 is right to point out the inanities that Geoff Hoon spouts but the only reason that he is still around in politics is that he is willing to do and say anything that he is told. From the Iraq war onwards, he has proved a loyal servant to keeping his job.
kingdee
London needs this extra Runway less taxi taxi times , less holding patterns which will save fuel.
At the risk of repeating myself ... none of those things will happen, because the owners will over sell slots on it - just as they have on the current pair of strips. This will only change if the CAA decide to regulate the airport which, for the last 20 years, they have not because they were told not to by the Tories and then Labour continued the 'light touch' regulation along with all the other monitoring groups.