Erm... FRA and AMS both have a fraction of the population of London living close to the airport so far fewer people to upset. Even at FRA they blocked night flights. They are much more similar to MAN in that respect. The local population have only one airport to rely on. London is very different.
CDG is a dump - awful for transfer etc in a notoriously centralised country that is hardly a beacon for economic liberalism.
Comparisons are facile. The coalition would fall if it supported LHR expansion. Airport expansion is only one policy area. There is clearly going to be expansion in the southeast. The question remains where.
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