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Reactions to the Heathrow Expansion approval
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05/02/2025
Londoners, MPs and Airline bosses react to Rachel Reeves’ approval of a third runway.
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It's been going a long, long time, this whole thing with the third runners, I've got three
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things to say. One, you're wasting our money, taxpayers' money. These people who are involved
00:11
in this project, they should be sacked immediately from like today because they haven't resolved
00:16
how many years it's been going. I've been hearing it for like, I don't know, donkeys
00:20
years, decades probably. Second is obviously, you know, on one hand, people have a good
00:26
right to kind of protect their land and so on. On the other hand, the economy is important
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as well. And so you can't have a cake and eat it at the same time. So it's a bit of
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a problem for everybody. But I think the key issue is wrong people in charge of this project.
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Wasting our time, wasting our resources and not getting anywhere. So I don't know. That's
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my advice. Sack those people, get somebody new from a professional, professionals basically.
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Get professionals, yeah. And again, you know, clarify the whole thing. Give those people
00:59
in the village a lot of money. I'm sure they'll move. You know, I've got enough money. Then,
01:04
you know, you get somewhere and then everybody's happy. There's always a resolution, but usually
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it's to do with communication, how they communicate those ideas to them and, you know, money.
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So already probably wasted enough money. They could give that money that they wasted on
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this whole project. And that would be resolved a long time ago. And we have a better airport.
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You know, we need a third runway. I'm really, I travel a bit. Yeah. But, you know, obviously
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environment is important. All those things are important, can be organised.
01:34
Following the Chancellor's speech approving the third runway for Heathrow Airport, Ed
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Miliband, the Energy Secretary, said an expansion of Heathrow Airport would only take place
01:46
if it was within climate targets.
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Experts are clear the savings from the government's clean power action plan will be wiped out
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by 2050 if airport expansion at Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton goes ahead. And relying
02:00
on so-called sustainable aviation fuels would use up to half of the UK's agricultural land.
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So does the Secretary of State agree with the scientists that whilst ambitious clean
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power plans are hugely welcome, if his government also backs airport expansion, it's not going
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to meet its climate obligations?
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What I would say to the Honourable Lady is that any aviation expansion, this is the point
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the Chancellor made last week, has to take place within carbon budgets and within environmental
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limits.
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Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has been exceptionally critical of the plans, suggesting the Chancellor
02:34
should scrap air passenger duty rather than quote-unquote waffle about the Heathrow expansion,
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which he does not believe would happen before the 2040s.
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