Neither should the taxpayer be throwing money into a pit the size of the Isle Of White for the road rail interchange which would be needed to make Heathrow work without proper and forensic scrutiny.
We have quite a few gobby characters in the TUC and a few MPs plus others who are happy to read the banner headline but could not understand an income expenditure account of the local parish church if it hit them in the face !
Just before the issue is debated Heathrow are now also going to put forward what "appear" to be fag packet proposals to amend all there plans with no tunnels, a missing rail station and some other bits.
This a complete joke. At least IF you are going to do it do it properly without recourse to knee jerk reaction
How on earth can you put forward a plan 5 years in the making and then rewrite it a week before the decision.
It's completely devoid of common sense!
One other issue which has raised its head are guarantees re shareholder value.
Suppose it gets the go ahead ?
Current shareholders see their very short term investment triple BUT can then simply sell on within months of the decision taking all the gain of a YES but not the pain of 15 years wrangling that will follow.
Must confess I never saw that one coming and couldn't understand why regardless of capacity constraints you would want to dilute down what is currently a high value monopoly / premium product.
Last edited by Navpi; 14th Sep 2016 at 06:09.