Quote: "just start the expansion now.if heathrow was in china it's capacity would be doubled in 12 months !!
the UK economy is on a knife edge,get the construction jobs going,relocate the odd villager or two,with suitable compensation and we can have an airport to rival the best in the world.
sadly,i know this will not happen,yet another opportunity missed by UK PLC.
lets just sit back and watch all our near neighbours benefit from the huge expansion in air travel.rant over !"
Good rant,
bermudatriangle!
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On Twitter, Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith criticised Mr Cameron, writing: "So the same PM whose dithering on airports will cost 3-6 years is now enraged by the delays affecting big infrastructure decisions?""
Same as Boris a while back, it's a bit late for these chaps to be so concerned about delays in airport expansion. They should have stiffened Dave's backbone and resolve by strongly backing Heathrow expansion.
Instead, their grandstanding has has scared the hell out of Dave, hence the renewed vision of long grass and the deafening sound of the can being kicked even further down the street.
BBC News - PM to crack down on 'time-wasting' appeals
Interestingly in this piece, Dave mentions the 1940s.
"Mr Cameron drew a historical analogy, saying: "When this country was at war in the '40s, Whitehall underwent a revolution.
"Normal rules were circumvented. Convention was thrown out. As one historian put it, everything was thrown at 'the overriding purpose' of beating Hitler.
"Well, this country is in the economic equivalent of war today - and we need the same spirit. We need to forget about crossing every 't' and dotting every 'i' - and we need to throw everything we've got at winning in this global race."
What Churchill did was to run a
command economy very sucessfully. It is the
only case of anyone making a
command economy work.
Ironically, many Communist countries tried it (before and after the 1940s), but only a Conservative Prime Minister could make it work!
Is Dave
really suggesting that we go down this route once again?