Unless you're suggesting that they are being disingenuous, HACAN's position (per their website) is "to stop further expansion of Heathrow and to cut the noise people hear from the existing airport".
Hardly a pro-Heathrow or a neutral position is it!
Why are the British so afraid of taking a big innovative leap these days?
There was a time when the British led the way in exploration, technological innovation and bold decision making.
Now, we have a range of political parties who don't seem to have the ability to think or look outside of their small insular world.
Intellectual pygmies the lot of them. None of them has ever run anything or had a "proper" job.
If Labour get into bed with the SNP you could actually have Scottish MPs driving this. They may want independence BUT they also want connectivity to Heathrow, oodles of cash have been spent in propaganda in convincing them its a good thing (this despite them seemingly not having a clue that they ALREADY have a mass of shuttles from LHR to GLA, EDI and ABZ) .
A new runway will barely make one iota of difference to them.
We could end up getting a runway in the S East based on the Honorable members for Wick thinking they will also be getting a new shuttle !
Could "
the Honorable members for Wick" have INV-LHR flights on their minds?
Actually it was the Ulster Unionist MP Enoch Powell that named it the "West Lothian Question" after Tam Dalyell had used Blackburn, West Lothian as an example in a discussion about the English town Blackburn, Lancashire.
Of course they were correct, not resolving this question has resulted in the present mess, last year’s referendum (neverendum?), and in the worst case scenario, the potential breakup of the UK.