BFS-watcher. Cobblers. I'm a Northerner and I certainly don't support this waste of money. In fact an online poll carried out by one of the local rags (or was it Slugger O'Toole?) found 75% of people don't support the subsidy.
Setting aside the stupidly of wasting so much money (£5.4m) on one route. Here's a question for the hypocrites: how can you justify the funding of this subsidy for the 48,000 seats a year the route offers, but simultaneously claim the subventions for CoDA is a waste of taxpayers' money, despite it being a quarter of the United subsidy, but supporting 275,000-300,000 pax a year?
Also, if this route was operating from BHD (theoretically), would there be the support offered for it by BFS-watcher and the rest of the Alderdump cabal?