Quote: "The Courts will have the last word on LHR expansion. And it will almost certainly be a combination of the ECHR/ ECJ and the British Supreme Court."
Very depressing if this is the case, are we no longer an independent country? Are we now a "judocracy" (government by judicial review) rather than a democracy? Has one person one judge replaced one person one vote?
Quote: "Was rather hoping that the UK might get its act together about air transport capacity, but seems as if we've lost the desire as a society to make money any more."
The EU's to blame, it's sapped any entrepreneurial spirit out of us. Can't do a thing without permission from Brussels, it's pathetic. We should be trading with the world, not just the sclerotic eurozone.
Apart from the BRICs there are up and coming countries that we need to do business with and we need direct transport links to these, and these need feeder routes to be viable.
It's ludicrous that there are only 7 domestic airports linked to LHR and scandalous that only 2 UK carriers have access to it.
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 20th Jul 2013 at 00:54.
Reason: factual correction