Again wrong words are used in the media to describe this airport crisis. It will not be a cost. Britain are saving money by not investing in better airports. But Britain doesn't get any extra revenue either.
This displays a lack of business accumen.
If your shop has such difficult access and looks so shabby that nobody comes in, then you have no income and you LOOSE MONEY. Same with the UK. If the best roads we can afford are goat tracks, and our best airports can only accommodate a Piper Aztec, you will not find anyone seting up a business in the UK or comming to the UK, and we will LOOSE MONEY.
As a matter of urgency, we need investment in infrastructure and in new industry, and without this we WILL become the new Albania - poverty stricken and starving. Have you ever looked at the business pages of the Sunday Times? There has been no industrial or export news for the last four months. And all the many reports about banks, however interesting, are merely rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic. Banking is parasitic, it does not generate wealth.
So we need new infrastructure, and we need it yesterday. Its just that the 3rd runway is not the way to go. That is merely a sticking-plaster to a much greater problem.
Oh, and we need cross-rail to join up with HS2, the Chunnel, and with Silver-Boris. If it does not do this, then we need a lamppost and some rope. Someone has to take responsibility. We have had nearly two decades of ducking and diving, with nobody taking responsibility for the mess we find ourselves in.
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