[Closed] Apparently it's Heathrow

how long before Boris quits the cabinet,and starts lying under excavators?

Please let it be true....

I don't think there was ever any doubt that Heathrow would get the nod for this.

Hasn't Heathrow already had the nod for this about 3 times!?

I'm sure Boris has an alternative view that Heathrow is the best place for the expansion and shortly will point out that's what he thought all along.

Its an easily made but significantly flawed decision, which will materially affect about 2 million people every day.

Statement live from Grayling to confirm. Disgrace it's taken this long to decide.

FWIW they should approve runways / expansion at Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester etc too. In the time it's taken to approved the Chinese have built / expanded close to 30 airports

I don't think there was ever any doubt that Heathrow would get the nod for this.

I believed Mr Cameron, my faith in politicians has taken away by this one incident 😐

Mr Cameron in 2009 said: “The third runway at Heathrow is not going ahead, no ifs, no buts.”

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Did someone say borris?

. In the time it's taken to approved the Chinese have built / expanded close to 30 airports

I expect a piece Boris wrote for the Telegraph, but didn't publish, proclaiming the multitudinous virtues of Heathrow expansion will be leaked shortly

I expect a piece Boris wrote for the Telegraph, but didn't publish, proclaiming the multitudinous virtues of Heathrow expansion will be leaked shortly

🙂

Its was pretty inevitable I think. Where ever they built it near London was going to be bad for somebody. It would actually have made more sense to announce both heathrow and Gatwick and split it but guess the money isn't there to do that.

I have no opinion either way whether its Heathrow or Gatwick, but am gastflabbered by the time it's take to gather information, manipulate it, ignore those who have a direct concern over it, those affected by it, those that will now derail and coerce, and add to another 10 years of pissing around whilst the UK gets stuffed during Brexit and Governments change and alter strategies 1m times.

Steaming pile of horse shit, the whole fiasco.

We need a live TV Broadcast of Boris under a diggers shovel. Obvz that'll be driven by an Immigrant to which Bozza will choke on his own vomit when he finds out.

Theresa May has made her own position very clear. I hope she takes a principled stand.

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Obvz that'll be driven by an Immigrant to which Bozza will choke on his own vomit when he finds out

Didnt we know this several years ago?

Better option than trying to build an island in the sea, relocating an RSPB heron reserve, and transport links to London that would be about 45 minutes rather than 20, but needing the fastest trains in Europe (faster than the St. Pancras - Ebbsfleet line is operated at).
Nothing to stop them building more runways at Gatwick too.

Nothing to stop them building more runways at Gatwick too.

Didnt we know this several years ago?

It's a hardy annual, it just keeps coming back year after year. AFAIK Parliament won't be voting on it until next year so until then it's just the usual puff. I liked Ben Goldacre's tweet on the subject:

[i]"If you're having more airport it has to be Heathrow, but I do feel sad for those who bought houses there before the airport, in 1946"[/i]

So, bi-election in south west London in 6 weeks then? Has the dog-whistler resigned his seat yet?
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I would like to see how much tax payers money has been blown with dithering over this for so many years?

i guess the decision comes now in a desperate hope of trying to keep Heathrow a hub for ongoing travel and London one of the European centres for business in the wake of brexit?

You know Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is American?

yes, but he's white, so counts as being British under Tory rules....

So the cost to the public of providing increased access to the extended airport will be the same as that of delivering Crossrail. This doesn't include the costs of building the new runway and terminals which will be paid for by passengers (apparently).

God we love to tit about at making decisions in this country. Personally think it's a stupid idea to build another runway in the south east. Activity and people need to be moving out of the south east not more into it.

Now we have to endure all the news of the legal challenge, public enquiry, environmental audits, etc, etc. I bet the diggers won't start work for another 10 years.

I bet the Queen isn't happy that more planes will be flying over Windsor. It would be bloody brilliant if she kiboshed the idea.

It wont happen again IMO.

A proper joined up transport policy would be brill including HS2, freight trains, airports, motorways etc.

I bet* Corbyn comes up with one soon and it'll be ace but roundly denounced by the media.

*Just a figure of speech, won't be betting with my money.

I bet Corbyn comes up with one soon and it'll be ace but roundly denounced by the media

There will probably be a 10 year consultation now about whether they sort out the M25 round the Heathrow junctions to deal with the extra traffic, or whether they just turn it into the car park it is at rush hour there now instead.

Zac the racist is announcing his resignation later

will be very unpopular in the constituencies of May and Johnson, tho safe Tory seats Im sure it wont matter

besides which years of legal battles will ensue, good day for lawyers

noise pollution around heathrow is already horrendous, used to live a few miles from the flight path and it was grim

This decision, whatever it decided, should have been made years ago.
I take some comfort that this government actually seems willing to make decisions on things which predecessors were happier to simply kick into the long grass for their own self interest.

Activity and people need to be moving out of the south east not more into it.

As if simply building an airport up north is going to change that.

The South East has been the place everything happens for at least three thousand years, a bit of infrastructure isn't going to change that. London's where it is for a reason.

The only way to change that is to have a multi-decade plan that forces people to spread out, and that would certainly harm the precarious economy. The Chinese don't have this problem because they are the major producer of cheap stuff and the government can do more or less what it likes because people will still want cheap stuff.

SNP spokesman(with a wry smile) on TV calling for a vote in parliament on the decision asap.SNP are supporting it apparently.Methinks they are playing politics-give the London cosmopolitan crowd a taste of their own medicine with Scotland dictating what goes on in the capital instead of vice versa and kicking up a sh*tstorm in the the process.I reckon this may bring this Tory government down if Brexit doesn't first.

So we've another multi-squillion pound, environment-trashing white elephant, that only big business consultants and corporate lawyers want, to go alongside HS2 (which still won't provide a direct link with Heathrow and 'there-be-dragons country north of Watford) and Hinkley Point.

Theresa does like her vanity projects, doesn't she?

I expect she'll leave the announcement of the new Royal Yacht for a few weeks

The South East has been the place everything happens for at least three thousand years

You missed the industrial revolution Molls. Unless I'm very much mistaken, and the view out of my window suggests I'm not, I think that generally went on a bit further north. Don't worry though. It was only a trifling matter that had no impact on the wider world

There will probably be a 10 year consultation now about whether they sort out the M25 round the Heathrow junctions to deal with the extra traffic,

Presumably also leading to about 5 years of congestion misery locally.

So when will it be built ? 2.5 years of consultations apparently

extra delays for legal challenges
then demolish the villages, at least 3-4 years to build

we'll be well out of the EU by then, we already have a large construction skills gap..... have to find some more immigrants then

at least 2 general elections between now and 2025 when it might be finished

Going to have to be a tunnel under the new runway isn't it?
Else it's quite a diversion.

Is now an appropriate time to bring up massive conveyor belts and 747's?

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SNP have done a deal with Heathrow.

Still only 3 hours on the train from Heathrow to the Northern Powerhouse, what's not to like?

Took me an hour to get from M25 to inside T5 HRW due to gridlock on slip road. I hope they have plans for the infrastructure!!

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Crackers, should be building new ones at [b]both[/b] Gatwick and Heathrow 🙂

Didnt we know this several years ago?

It's been the obvious decision for 15 years. Long overdue.

@Mike I usually drive to the Alps (much less environmentally sound than flying as a matter of fact). When I fly I usually go from Gatwick or Southampton (partly as I like flying in turbo-prop aircraft). When I was flying to NY once a month I went Virgin from Gatwick. As employers airline contract is with BA most business flights for past decade have been from Heathrow.

B r. .... That + 1