At least the third runway won't be lying empty, it will be well used and prove to be value for money.
Not just well used, built without risk to tax payer too. FBI is risky AND will need government money from the start - whether just for surface access, for the whole lot, or as a bail out pot.
Would be worth doing the U-turn on Heathrow just to see the back of Goldsmith
(Let's stick to the man, not his family!) Presumably he can't just do a Shaun Woodward and cross the floor to the greens, as people wouldn't accept that trick again. Might clear the way though for a more imaginative Tory leader this time though!
should never have been appointed to the transport job in the first place.
Yup, think a few of us said at the time it was a shockingly bad appointment, because the Heathrow issue was still unresolved at the time, just as it is now. Jeremy Clarkson would have made a more
balanced transport secretary - at least he worships Brunel and even rides a bike now!