Sou'ton Airport ops director Steve Szalay: "The runway would create a "wonderful" airport: We are a business and we have to adapt - this is our plan to adapt to the changing world. " Idiotic. A plan to DESTROY the world. Climate crisis? Pollution? Heard of those? @SOU_Airport
"The government in its draft 2050 Aviation Strategy says it supports the growth of aviation, provided that growth takes place in a sustainable way, with actions to mitigate the environmental impacts."
@10DowningStreet You conveniently forget to implement those actions, don't you!
Another utterly senseless, outrageous decision, based, as always, on greed of private enterprise. Despite all the proof of damage by noise/air pollution, this gov't continues to back short-term employment (not local) over climate and health.
It is simply not acceptable that @BorisJohnson stands up in front of COP26 braying about the UK leading the world in tackling climate change; aviation is a good place to start - 'no, you can't, there's a climate emergency'. @guardian@CarolineLucas@XRebellionUK@The_AEF
When is a promise not a promise? When it's made by the aviation industry or the government. Time we refused to pay taxes when they're used to support private enterprise and never paid back.
MP Christine Jardine calls for government airline support in exchange for climate change promises https://t.co/e5SLCxuWl5
Just what we need. Government funds to help more people travel abroad, spending their money there, and potentially increasing Covid risks in UK. Lovely
Promises? Promises are pointless and empty, as they're made by the aviation industry purely to be broken. Jardine is perhaps unaware of the climate crisis? Along with the entire aviation industry.
MP Christine Jardine calls for government airline support in exchange for climate change promises https://t.co/e5SLCxuWl5
Just what we need. Government funds to help more people travel abroad, spending their money there, and potentially increasing Covid risks in UK. Lovely
Climate crisis? What climate crisis? The idiocy of air traffic expansion continues. All in the name of greed and profit. The stupidity and short-term gain defies good sense.
"French lawmakers voted to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic"
Well, it's a start. https://t.co/vitHwwFDgf
Such action taken by HS2 aka HM Govt is a form of extreme violence comparable with desecrating a church. Or at least that is how I perceive this behaviour. Makes me feel quite desperate and despairing all at the same time... https://t.co/aQy5LhSTNv
.@ZacGoldsmith will you help to #ReforestEngland by setting a long-term tree cover target? Trees are vital to fight climate breakdown&flooding. We have space to double tree cover. Grow the right trees in the right places. The New Forest is a 'cemetree' :(.
The badger, a protected species. What do the Tories do? SLAUGHTER them to the point of extinction. Well done, Tories, and not a single badger tested for TB. TB in cattle is spread by poor husbandry, not badgers. Idiocy!
And flights into the UK from all over the world continue. No wonder it's so easily and so rapidly an uncontrollable pandemic. Airlines should be ashamed of themselves for facilitating the spread.
These two people fined £200 each for driving in separate cars 5 miles to take exercise 2 metres apart. Yet people come out of airports like Heathrow straight onto public transport nowhere near 2 metres apart. Got our priorities wrong somewhere... https://t.co/KEamUxidYH
So much suffering. Too much.
“It is an astounding number of preventable deaths from one cause in one year... a sign of a phenomenal failure of policy and practice in the face of this new and dangerous virus,” Prof Gabriel Scally said.
https://t.co/XsPxCmdH2F
1564 UK COVID deaths today
More than 1 death every minute
1564 humans have died
The government needs to wake UP ⏰
Here’s what needs to happen NOW👇
1. Protect NHS staff + patients by vaccinating frontline staff
2. Proper lock down
2. Proper financial support
🚨RT pls 🙏
We have always said and always will we are campaigning for all residents in care - and it is very important to remember that it is not just the elderly in care homes that are being denied their rights #rightsforresidents
https://t.co/ndQMzxMgSh
GIP showed its environmental credentials when Gatwick's CEO lied, took additional millions of passengers without permission, coerced the CAA to lie on its behalf and fobbed us off with the sham NMB. Now business travel and bucket and spade are screwed its frying a different way
@BBCRadio4 Why is there no call to the Government to ban flights from Brazil? Can we really cope with another mutation and even higher numbers of victims to COVID?
Why are you not banning flights from Brazil, PM Johnson? Do you really want an escalation in infection greater than what we already have? @10DowningStreet