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It’s private investment that’s paying for the extra runway not tax payers.

If the government was interested in growth & increasing productivity through investment in transport, they should have started with buses...

Who is she expecting to come, when, this, & the previous government, have made this such an uninviting place to come to? When she was in China, did she miss the flying cars, that were being expo'd?

Can I have a local bus that runs more than 3 times a day please.

Don't understand why the Guardian has withdrawn from 'X' and allowed the Far-Right to dominant the narrative perhaps you could tell me?

Multiple Infrastructure improvement projects and new Hospitals scrapped for the rest of the Country in favour of even more improvements for the London area, Labour are absolutely unrecognisable from what they should be

The reasoning given is that it will reduce stacking and cut emissions. Clearly they have never heard of Parkinson's Law - i.e. "The more runways you build, the more air traffic will fill them".

Exactly. I saw someone say that by building more runways you basically funnel most of the money out of the country in the name of "business" anyway.

We also can't afford to not commit to drastic climate action but what do I know

You know what, I really think you have something there. It's too niche for people to take it up unfortunately.

The issue is where not should we

Just London, actually. Sea defences near where I live have been allowed to crumble away for years and only recently started to see repairs.

Or maybe even make it serve the northern half of the UK, where the benefits of high speed rail would yield the greatest benefit

reform are gonna win the next election. absolutely nobody is gonna vote for labour. they're tory scum. 'government success on growth' TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS DOES NOT WORK. doesn't matter how much 'growth' you have. poor ppl will stay poor and they won't vote for you. reeves is an ideologue.

👀👉🏼”Heathrow Airport operates at 99% capacity and risks being overtaken in Europe, compare with four each in Paris' Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt Airport, and six at Amsterdam's Schiphol.” www.reuters.com/world/uk/wha...

Following the success of HS2, Reeves thinks all these new big infrastructure projects will be a success. Long odds. Beginning to sound more like Boris now with announcements.

Always best to explain important policy in double negatives

These people.

What about developing the rest of the UK instead of yet more money and infrastructure for London?

Don’t Look Up 👀 bsky.app/profile/kevi...

It’s not the runways that generate economic growth. But sure let’s talk about infrastructure, an affordable and working railway system, for example, does have a quantifiable and positive effect on economic growth.