Reply to: Just add it to my bill.

[TimberWolf]

How does it cost £9bn for a 3 mile bit of tarmac?

£1 million for the road and £8.999 billion for the directors, shareholders and other immoral and legal methods of lining the executives and government ministers pockets? Isn't that the way the country is being pillaged now?

[Churchill]

How does it cost £9bn for a 3 mile bit of tarmac?

£1bn for 3 miles of tarmac, £8bn for cost overruns and payments to various quangos and "special interest groups".

Simples!

[bobhope]

How does it cost £9bn for a 3 mile bit of tarmac?

[MPwannadecentincome]

Its bad enough if the 3rd runway goes ahead for those who do not support it, making them pay out of taxpayer's funds adds insult to injury.

[Board Game Geek]

Oh

[Menelaus]

I thought Heathrow was a private enterprise, so why am I being asked to stump up cash to save it ?

Capitalism should either stand on its own two feet or be allowed to die.

Simple.

If it was state-owned, then that would be different, and asking for tax payer money would be justified in return for cheaper flights ofc.

cf, RBS, Northern Rock, LTSB ... need I go on?

[Board Game Geek]

Taxpayers could end up subsidising the £9bn bill for Heathrow's third runway

I thought Heathrow was a private enterprise, so why am I being asked to stump up cash to save it ?

Capitalism should either stand on its own two feet or be allowed to die.

Simple.

If it was state-owned, then that would be different, and asking for tax payer money would be justified in return for cheaper flights ofc.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Did I really have to add ?

[Menelaus]

HAB, you've been sniffing glue again haven't you?

WHS*1000

[HairyArsedBloke]

HAB, you've been sniffing glue again haven't you?

[chef]

Everything will be fine. The government would have done proper due diligence on the Grupo Ferrovial before it allowed the BAA take over to ensure such a thing could never happen.

HAB, you've been sniffing glue again haven't you?

[TimberWolf]

So BAA are threatening to go into administration and BA want their staff to take unpaid holiday. Do we need a new runway?

[Menelaus]

Orly?

CDG, shirley?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Everything will be fine. The government would have done proper due diligence on the Grupo Ferrovial before it allowed the BAA take over to ensure such a thing could never happen.

[Cyberman]

The third runway will never be built anyway, so no worries.