“HS2 was deemed an ‘England and Wales’ project when not an inch of track was to be on Welsh soil. Now Welsh benefits are claimed for a third runway at Heathrow.”
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You don’t like 3rd runway because development money is not coming to your underfunded area, London hates 3rd runway because noise, traffic, pollution, climate. Heathrow is a an ordeal avoided whenever possible by using Gatwick etc. Common cause! Stop 3rd runway, use money elsewhere.
Full disclosure, I work on Hinkley Point C, this is not necessarily a perfect example and perhaps an opposite outcome for the drive to our net zero aspirations. I don't know enough about the environmental and economic case for increased capacity at Heathrow.
Of course, once built, an infrastructure project will have a diminished positive benefit to the wider UK. In the UK, the HS2 capacity will have minimum benefits to Wales.
Extra capacity at Heathrow can only be justified if that is linked to the additional transport infrastructure to get passengers and freight to and from Heathrow. I can't think of many UK airports that have adequate transport links, try and get to Heathrow from Wales for example.
Truly bizarre. Nonsense. HS2 and the proposed 3rd runway at Heathrow are symptomatic of continued investment in affluent London at the cost of other regions and nations. If there is money kicking about (there isn’t) spend it on capital projects that actually help other parts of the country.
What’s worse is both Scotland and wales oh and Northern Ireland all take a share of the debt of the building of these high cost projects that don’t benefit anyone but England.
Didn't do anything for England either, just knocked 15 mins off journey time London to Birmingham at appalling cost and vandalised the countryside. Classic doing something to be seen to be doing something. Performative.
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Despite not a square cm of Heathrow being in London.
It's always all about London and the southeast
It's just justification using Welsh and Scottish money for England's benefit.
When they say England they mean the South-East.
It’s difficult to decide whether Labour are as thick as 2 short planks or think we are