Boris is still pushing the Silver-Boris airport proposal.
Some interesting quotes from Boris' representative:
He said it was "absurd" that Johnson's office was treated "on a par with a private company motivated by commercial interests" when planning for expansion of London's infrastructure was a key part of the mayor's powers and responsibilities.
The decision had to involve the mayor, who was the only politician "articulating the public interest" among the private firms, he said, adding that: "while the commission was supposed to be independent, it was in danger of becoming independent of the real world".
Moylan said Johnson was "profoundly unsettled" by the interim report in December, which drew up a shortlist of possible airport expansion plans. This contained two different runway options at Heathrow and another at Gatwick, while rejecting the mayor's proposals for a four-runway Stansted – "for flimsy reasons", said Moylan – and promising only to continue reviewing evidence for a Thames estuary option – a concession widely seen as a last-minute political fudge.
Boris Johnson: commission's stance on airport expansion contradictory | Politics | The Guardian
I get the impression that Cameron does not want this major and controversial airport proposal and decision hanging over the next election, and so he has squashed it by getting the commission to reject Boris' proposals - which leaves both Boris and his proposals hanging out to dry.
So once more we get decisions made for political expediency rather than the national interest. It is like Blair who said we needed new nuclear power stations back in '98, and then did nothing for the next 14 years because it was a political hot-potato. So because Blair wanted to be nice to the electorate, and get reelected - and because Cameron wanted to be nice to the electorate, hug a few huskies, and get elected - the lights will start going out in 2018.
This is not lions being led by donkeys, it is lions being led by amoebas with a nice smile.
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