Plane stupid -up there with foxhunting

[unixman]

To be fair, it is the south east that has the capacity problem, not the rest of Britain.

Yes that's the point. It has a capacity problem because there is too much infrastructure already there, attracting too many people, so the airports are now lagging behind.

Put a mega airport in Brum, and watch Brum catch fire and the M25 become usable once again. You have to bite the bullet and light fires elsewhere, instead of standing round a single brazier in the SE.

London's function is to shepherd the country as a whole, not to serve itself until it drowns in its own obesity.

Sorry for the demented spluttering. I gotta cut back on the coffee.

[Doggy Styles]

Let's cram more infrastructure into the dirty, smoky, overcrowded, squeezed, smelly, grimy South East. After all, London must compete with <random capital>, it's not as if it has any responsible role in managing the rest of Britain.

To be fair, it is the south east that has the capacity problem, not the rest of Britain.

[MicrosoftBob]

All for them in this case, whether they are toffs or not.

Apart from anything else a third Heathrow runway would probably mean demolishing a fine old medievil church and nearby tithe barn at Harmondsworth.

What a waste, considering HTOL planes will probably be obsolete within 50 years, and long runways no longer required.

Also, what's wrong with Boris Johnson's idea of a floating airport in the Thames estuary?!

Isn't there enough unexploded ordnance nearby to cause issues ?

[darmstadt]

Does that invalidate what it says?

Suppose that there are 1000 monkeys working on 1000 typewriters. If each monkey can type 10 characters per second, what are the odds that they can produce copy for a website on the Internet where no-one knows that its only a dog in a tutu that reads it

[DodgyAgent]

Lets be fair. The government is proposing HS2.

Though only to suck cheap labour into London....

It is not. it is for rich Londoners to travel to their manufacturing hovels without having to touch local people

[BrilloPad]

Let's cram more infrastructure into the dirty, smoky, overcrowded, squeezed, smelly, grimy South East. After all, London must compete with <random capital>, it's not as if it has any responsible role in managing the rest of Britain.

Lets be fair. The government is proposing HS2.

Though only to suck cheap labour into London....

[unixman]

Let's cram more infrastructure into the dirty, smoky, overcrowded, squeezed, smelly, grimy South East. After all, London must compete with <random capital>, it's not as if it has any responsible role in managing the rest of Britain.

[DodgyAgent]

Spiked is no better than its predecessor, Living Marxism, which was never Marxist, and after a misjudged libel case, no longer Living.

Does that invalidate what it says?

[OwlHoot]

And here is another one: Plane Stupid: return of the snobs | Environment | Tourism and travel | Transport | spiked

All for them in this case, whether they are toffs or not.

Apart from anything else a third Heathrow runway would probably mean demolishing a fine old medievil church and nearby tithe barn at Harmondsworth.

What a waste, considering HTOL planes will probably be obsolete within 50 years, and long runways no longer required.

Also, what's wrong with Boris Johnson's idea of a floating airport in the Thames estuary?!

[pjclarke]

You do read some really stupid websites. Why not just stick to pron?

Spiked is no better than its predecessor, Living Marxism, which was never Marxist, and after a misjudged libel case, no longer Living.

[DodgyAgent]

You do read some really stupid websites. Why not just stick to pron?

I am becoming a leftie. Only I struggle with getting the rhythm "right"

[BrilloPad]

You do read some really stupid websites. Why not just stick to pron?

[DodgyAgent]

And here is another one: Plane Stupid: return of the snobs | Environment | Tourism and travel | Transport | spiked