Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not! VOL 2
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Loach and the loony left in the audience have completely lost the plot.
Suggesting that doctors should be deciding which of their patients should get disability benefits themselves? That's going to end well, isn't it. I take it they haven't asked the docs if they're up for telling their patients they can't have the money.
Suggesting that doctors should be deciding which of their patients should get disability benefits themselves? That's going to end well, isn't it. I take it they haven't asked the docs if they're up for telling their patients they can't have the money.
Halb said:
Ken Loach earns 6 mill a year?
He uses planes, but he didn't say scrap them, he said no to a third runway.
Interesting titbit from the LDer, 40-60% of traffic at Heathrow is freight?
We are currently sending freight via the ports to be flown from mainland Europe because our freight capacity is too small.He uses planes, but he didn't say scrap them, he said no to a third runway.
Interesting titbit from the LDer, 40-60% of traffic at Heathrow is freight?
Halb said:
jsf said:
We are currently sending freight via the ports to be flown from mainland Europe because our fright capacity is too small.
Is the tax person correct? The UK needs expansion at HR and Gatwick and othr places?All those Chinese middle class are going to need to land somewhere.
Manchester has spare capacity at the moment as that has 2 runways already, but the south is well under resourced.
JawKnee said:
MiniMan64 said:
I love when rich famous people dodge questions about why it's okay for them to fly but not everyone else...
Where did he say it's not ok for everyone else to fly?Assuming there's a need for more passenger trips, presumably he will give up his flying to allow others to fly instead, thus preserving his desire for no expansion...? Thought not...
jsf said:
yes, its crazy how slow we build infrastructure.
All those Chinese middle class are going to need to land somewhere.
Manchester has spare capacity at the moment as that has 2 runways already, but the south is well under resourced.
On TW, the heads mentioned what had been built in other places like Turkey, since the last chat over Heathrow. All those Chinese middle class are going to need to land somewhere.
Manchester has spare capacity at the moment as that has 2 runways already, but the south is well under resourced.
Halb said:
jsf said:
We are currently sending freight via the ports to be flown from mainland Europe because our fright capacity is too small.
Is the tax person correct? The UK needs expansion at HR and Gatwick and other places?What I cant get my simple mind around everything "seems" to be against LHR. Pollution, noise, cost, disruption to the M25 and more, YET its the guvmints 1st choice???
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mikal83 said:
What I cant simple mind around everything "seems" to be against LHR. Pollution, noise, cost, disruption to the M25 and more, YET its the guvmints 1st choice???
Presumably because they've had the same kind of 'reassurances' that Nissan has had? The kind that come in the proverbial brown envelope. Gatwick makes a much better case for expansion IMHO (purely from a cost/benefit angle). I am ignoring the very relevant complaints of residents affected by both.
Much as I support the presence of a 'Taxpayer's Alliance' to call Govt waste to account, that Dia Chakravaty ain't half annoying. Comes across as a sixth-former on speed, totally out of her depth and cringeworthy 'congratulating' Loach on his films.
Can't see why there should be more runways at LHR. There are dozens of airports scattered around London and more in the regions. It seems for UK read London and stuff the rest. LHR and LGW are only clamouring to expand their business for growth and to hell with whatever inconvenience it causes. Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, Newcastle and the borders would be less disruptive or intrusive and give a better solution to regional dispersion than everything being London based and necessarily needing ongoing links further up country.
I agree with the above. I can understand the tourist bit, (wanting to fly in/out London), BUT theres a heck of a lot of us that find driving/train etc up to London a PITA, and feckin expensive.
Bristol airport would be ideal for us in the west country and SW Brumland. Luton/Stansted for the madhaters in east Anglia. Madchester or east Mids for others in the central nth. And then for the far north/south jockland somewhere near Glasgy/Edin/Geordieland.
Bristol airport would be ideal for us in the west country and SW Brumland. Luton/Stansted for the madhaters in east Anglia. Madchester or east Mids for others in the central nth. And then for the far north/south jockland somewhere near Glasgy/Edin/Geordieland.
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