What DO you mean? You're usually quite switched on, tell me more. That's very plausible until one stops to actually read it and at the moment it's entirely generic, harmless and a little meaningless. One might almost think political?
More like anti political
Politicians are more concerned with getting elected and getting remembered for grandiose projects than doing stuff that will help people...............HS2 is a classical point.
The actual cost of the Heathrow project is a guesstimate with £1-2 billion minimum.
Rather than spending billions on a grandiose scheme with a precieved claim of improving competitiveness a better use of the limited resources is investing in real education and real R&D to rebuild competitiveness.
Sadly none of this will be done and billions will be spent for the now 30% of passengers travelling through LHR which give nothing to the economy.
So what if LHR loses 20 flights a day to CDG of transit passengers, run LHR so it adds real value rather than spending money so you can claim ego by being biggest in Europe. Time for reality rather than Willy waving.