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Old 21st Apr 2010, 14:46
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Lord Adonis stated on 'The world at One' today that there had been an over reaction to the Ash event by the authorities concerned.
Lord Adonis would be best advised to keep his mouth shut and seek some advice before spouting of.

Irrespective of whatever anyone on here thinks about the decision to close airspace in the UK, the glaringly obvious FACT during the whole episode is that none of the incumbent Cabinet Party were visible in the first few days. They only started coming out with opinions when it was clear that the airspace was about to re-open - and even then they didn't know the roles of NATS etc.

Looking at charts over the past 24Hrs, even if using the old criteria the majority of UK airspace would now be open.

It's very easy for politicians to say it was an over-reaction - pity they didn't have the balls to stand up at the outset...

HMG acted very poorly (well, very seldom) throughout this whole episode
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