Reeves: third Heathrow runway would be hard decision but good for growth

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1. Does she need psychiatric help? I’ve never known anyone be so obsessed with growth in all my life.

   I’m sure that runway, funded with the benefits taken from the disabled, will be a crowning achievement.

2. It’s taken so long that it needs a 4th runway which obviously isn’t ever happening.

   Just blow up the HMS Montgomery and build nearby already.

3. They been talking about this runway since 2015. Just build it ffs.

4. BoJo talks about a Thames Estuary airport in his book instead of a 3rd runway. Won’t ever happen, but there are clear and real tradeoffs to a Heathrow 3rd runway.

   In the end its probably worth it to build the 3rd

5. Another option to free up capacity?

   Allow Heathrow (and all UK airports) to operate 24 hours. Could be brought in almost immediately with next to no additional costs.

   (And to answer the inevitable comments in advance; I don’t care about local residents. NIMBYs shouldn’t get to decide policy. They all knew there was a massive airport there when they moved in.)

6. The country needs to build stuff.

   With HS2 axed, we’ve shown we can’t even bloody build a railway to connect all our main cities, it’s concerning for investors.

   Japan’s railway system runs like clockwork, its bullet train runs from Tokyo to Osaka in 2-3 hours (same distance as London to Scotland) what exciting infrastructure projects are we working on to stimulate our economy, create jobs and opportunities?

   This would mean more engineers trained, more accountants, solicitors, more administrators, more jobs whilst it happens.

   Build. Back. Britain.

   Get the money off the bloody banks we bailed out in 2008.

   Someone said it eloquently, in the U.K profits are privatised, debts (bankrupt water companies) are socialised e.g the average tax payer picks up the tab.

   Fuck that.

   Start going after the day light robbers charging 5.79% mortgages just to bloody own a shitty home.

7. Heathrow should be shutdown to move investment out of the south. We need houses in Newcastle to be the same price as in the south so start divesting future investment away from London. Killing one of the airports there is the way to start that.

8. Even talking about this shows how small our horizons have become. Runways should just happen, they shouldn’t be headline news for decades.

9. What will grow, apart from the runway, tourism, air pollution and people getting the fuck outta Dodge? 🤣

10. Would it not be better to expand any other airport in the country, somewhe in Midlands or around Manchester? It will boost local economy there, declutter London, less pollution. Cheaper land to build storage warehouses. I assume the growth they are talking about is not only passengers but also cargo. What’s with this obsession of concentrating everything in London?

    Look at the new datacentres developments, all happening outside London.

11. Good for growth.. how so.. what does it manufacture.

12. We need to build top end infrastructure, we need to fucking build shit, build stuff for the people, fuck the nimby off, bulldoze the people that put up blockers. Make sure we compensate people properly but my god, let’s set up our kids into a country that is usable.

13. We don’t need another Heathrow Terminal, and we don’t need ‘growth’. STFU.

14. When it’s easier to use Schiphol than Heathrow (which it is if you need to connect to a UK regional airport), that’s a problem. Good for the Netherlands, though…

15. Hard decision? British political speak preaches insanity. A third runway is a necessity which has been called on for the best part of three decades. While they’re at it, they should also consider the future possibility of green lighting further airport projects, especially a second runway at Gatwick.

16. She keeps on talking about growth but is just going the opposite direction in achieving “growth.” Typical modern Labour. No clue how the real world works.

17. If heathrow were in east London it would have been built years ago. But because it affects rich people, we must debate for decades.

18. For years on this sub it was the Tories who didn’t care for the climate but now the extreme left see money, it’s changed roles.

    Building Heathrow’s third runway would increase carbon emissions by seven million tonnes – roughly equivalent to Uganda’s entire carbon footprint.

    I’d rather not push the capital up the rankings for most polluted city on planet, cheers

19. Everyone under 50 in the UK wants growth, everyone over 50 wants the country to grow but doesn’t want what it takes for growth

20. I don’t understand why we wouldn’t want this as a nation. I don’t get the expansion of airports or new airports instead as Heathrow has the connections domestically and flights already. It would be massively beneficial to the economy and our status to have a hub airport that can deliver.

    This isn’t to say other airports shouldn’t be allowed to expand either, but Heathrow should be celebrated rather than denigrated.

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