It has been a topic up in the air (arf!) for decades, when d!ckhead was London mayor one of his spivs dreamed up the fantasy of reclaiming part of the Thames river and splashing a runway onto that.
Boris Johnson refloats the idea of an island airport as an alternative to a third runway at Heathrow.
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If the traffic requires it, then get it built. The thing is, if it's a case of keeping up with Paris, they can throw land at new runways and terminals all they like because they have it. Heathrow gets bigger, so Paris goes bigger, then the onus falls on London capacity again. Was an East west branch of HS2 a possibility to connect another airport? How will the elizabeth line be impacted or expanded?
A common theme recently has been the idea of a 'grown up conversation' - about pensions, about infrastructure, about new laws, about attitudes to growth and how immigration and European cooperation are required. The problem with 'grown up conversations' is that it requires grown ups. Vast swathes of the public are either to thick or uninterested or simply don't care (or all three!) to actually engage with a problem to then make an informed and constructive input to making progressive decisions. That [Poor language removed] gove coughed up that "the people of this country have had enough of experts", he was sort of correct, the people of this country don't want to listen and be informed and involved in decisions, they want to renege upon responsibility and have someone else deal with it. The very same morons that then start moaning about the Nanny state.
This is why we get the politicians we have. Dastardly chancers with their fingers in the till, sex pests, and fraudsters. Someone turns up with some ethical behaviour and the dirt scum press have them as a communist before they step into office.
The knob-heads that are happy with business as usual under tory control are the few that benefit, at the detriment of the rest.
It's easier to complain about knackered infrastructure, decaying hospitals and prisons, rising taxes across the board, services in decline, and there being a lack of hope. You and your children have had your future sold out from beneath you. This is a modern equivalent of serfdom, and now the realities of poverty and shortened lifespans, and managed decline of living standards and health are starting to come to the fore.
Having achieved very little so far and been critiqued for every minute of it, it seems this or any labour government will face an overwhelming uphill battle to deliver any measurable betterment to the public.
Maybe we should all move to Scotland and push for another independence vote en mass, leave the tories and their believers to it.
