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Where Is Boris
Boris has done a runner , and will be absent for the Crucial , Heathrow expansion vote tonight,
after promising to lie down in front of the bulldozers, if it happens.
after promising to lie down in front of the bulldozers, if it happens.
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But a senior government source told Sky News Mr Hands had originally been offered the chance to be out of the country "on government business" on Monday - the day of the vote.
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But a senior government source told Sky News Mr Hands had originally been offered the chance to be out of the country "on government business" on Monday - the day of the vote.
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Boris Johnson faces calls to resign after jetting off to Afghanistan to dodge crucial Heathrow vote
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Oh for goodness sake. There’ll be calls for them to resign for not voting for tiddlywinks on the games night soon.
For a reason of working abroad he couldn’t vote on this issue. It would have made diddlies difference even if he had done but he can always lay down in front of a bulldozer is he wants to.
For a reason of working abroad he couldn’t vote on this issue. It would have made diddlies difference even if he had done but he can always lay down in front of a bulldozer is he wants to.
Well they've backed the runway plan by 415 to 119, so Boris's absence made no odds. However, I don't think Boris needs to steel himself just yet to lay in front of the 'dozers. There will be "environmental impact" enquiries, judicial reviews, High Court challenges, further reviews, more prevarication. Boris and all the current mob will have long sailed off into the sunset before a single turf is lifted - if indeed it ever is.
Meanwhile "hub" air traffic that should rightly go via Heathrow will go to places like Schipol (where there are six runways, the latest added in 2003 and where the terminals and piers continues to grow. This prevarication, endemic in UK politics, will see the decline in the UK's share of European air traffic. And before anybody says, it has nothing to do with Brexit. The issue has been batted about for fifty years and will probably still not be resolved in the next fifty.
Meanwhile "hub" air traffic that should rightly go via Heathrow will go to places like Schipol (where there are six runways, the latest added in 2003 and where the terminals and piers continues to grow. This prevarication, endemic in UK politics, will see the decline in the UK's share of European air traffic. And before anybody says, it has nothing to do with Brexit. The issue has been batted about for fifty years and will probably still not be resolved in the next fifty.
I suspect that most people who oppose the 3rd runway live in the Uk and commute to LHR via public transport. The majority of passengers transit through Heathrow and connect onto other flights. Many of them miss their flights due to their aircraft having to hold and by the time they land, they have missed their connection. If the UK and LHR want's to remain as a hub and stay ahead of the game, then a 3rd runway is imperative. Personally, I think that when we do actually get the 3rd runway, we will need a 4th
They should just bulldoze their way through this, get on with it, and ride roughshod over the objectors in order to get the bloody job done.
We need the 3rd runway and have done so for years - and like 237SJ I think when we're putting in the 3rd, we may as well put in a 4th at the same time.
While we're at it - let's put a 2nd runway at Gatwick.
Unfortunately the 3rd runway issue is going to be rattling on for may years to come with the ecomorons and the nimbyists, and any other pressure group (Save The Heathrow Gnat - if there was such an animal I have no doubt there'd be a group to save them) and I suspect one of the world's most important airports will still be operating from two runways in 20 years time....although by then it'll probably have been taken over by other European airports as a preferred hub.
I can't imagine any other country having to jumps through so many hoops in order to build something that we need to be built.
We need the 3rd runway and have done so for years - and like 237SJ I think when we're putting in the 3rd, we may as well put in a 4th at the same time.
While we're at it - let's put a 2nd runway at Gatwick.
Unfortunately the 3rd runway issue is going to be rattling on for may years to come with the ecomorons and the nimbyists, and any other pressure group (Save The Heathrow Gnat - if there was such an animal I have no doubt there'd be a group to save them) and I suspect one of the world's most important airports will still be operating from two runways in 20 years time....although by then it'll probably have been taken over by other European airports as a preferred hub.
I can't imagine any other country having to jumps through so many hoops in order to build something that we need to be built.
