I live practically next to Heathrow
... and I'd welcome its expansion. The noise of planes flying nearby does not bother me in the slightest: in fact. I like it because it reminds me of holidays.

A third runway would actually reduce the amount of time planes spent circling around pointlessly, and actually get them landed. Shouldn't the so-called green lobby be in favour of that?

With regards to demolition of Harmondsworth village etc: that only affects very few people. Most of the houses round there have been bought up by BAA anyway: and I might understand objections from a few people who simply don't want to sell up because they're attached to their homes: but what does that have to do with anyone else in West London?

This country's full of NIMBYs and whingers, and it's why the UK is no longer great. See the booming economies of South-East Asian countries? They're not scuppered by all the moaning red-tape-loving nothing-better-to-do protest brigade that we have here.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 5 Sep 2012, 0:35, 1 reply)

i see the future... a daily mail headline.... 'immigrants cause capacity issues at heathrow'

(magictorch, Wed 5 Sep 2012, 10:44, closed)

note to self
qotw + cabinet reshuffle/ politcs = drearyness
(magictorch, Wed 5 Sep 2012, 10:44, closed)

Haha
Most passengers are Brits returning from holiday or business. "Immigrants" - in the loosest sense of the word - are a small minority.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 5 Sep 2012, 16:55, closed)

Mere facts like that wouldn't stop the The Daily Mail waging one of its hate campaigns though.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 5 Sep 2012, 22:08, closed)