Where Is Boris

[gulliver1]

Boris has done a runner , and will be absent for the Crucial , Heathrow expansion vote tonight,
after promising to lie down in front of the bulldozers, if it happens.

[237SJ]

It's a shame really. He had a really good opportunity to prove himself but instead of that, he has run away and he now has no credibilty whatsoever

[gulliver1]

Oh dear Boris , your fellow Mps have voted to back the Heathrow extension, Ouch.

[tonyav]

Mmmmmm !
But a senior government source told Sky News Mr Hands had originally been offered the chance to be out of the country "on government business" on Monday - the day of the vote.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/ex-minister-offered-chance-to-miss-heathrow-vote/ar-AAz8mQR?ocid=U345DHP

[tonyav]

Boris Johnson faces calls to resign after jetting off to Afghanistan to dodge crucial Heathrow vote

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/boris-johnson-faces-calls-to-resign-after-jetting-off-to-afghanistan-to-dodge-crucial-heathrow-vote/ar-AAz9SCb?ocid=U345DHP

[cassa333]

Oh for goodness sake. There’ll be calls for them to resign for not voting for tiddlywinks on the games night soon.

For a reason of working abroad he couldn’t vote on this issue. It would have made diddlies difference even if he had done but he can always lay down in front of a bulldozer is he wants to.

[New Judge]

Well they've backed the runway plan by 415 to 119, so Boris's absence made no odds. However, I don't think Boris needs to steel himself just yet to lay in front of the 'dozers. There will be "environmental impact" enquiries, judicial reviews, High Court challenges, further reviews, more prevarication. Boris and all the current mob will have long sailed off into the sunset before a single turf is lifted - if indeed it ever is.

Meanwhile "hub" air traffic that should rightly go via Heathrow will go to places like Schipol (where there are six runways, the latest added in 2003 and where the terminals and piers continues to grow. This prevarication, endemic in UK politics, will see the decline in the UK's share of European air traffic. And before anybody says, it has nothing to do with Brexit. The issue has been batted about for fifty years and will probably still not be resolved in the next fifty.

[Jackdaw33]

I don't suppose that anyone in the country, apart from those living in the immediate vicinity of Heathrow, gives a monkey's.

[tonyav]

Pretty much ( I suspect ), jd.

[Zacs-Master]

That’s a rather naive view, JD. There will be environmental protection groups galore saying ‘no’.

[anneasquith]

Boris will skulk back home soon, pretending nothing has happened when he was away .

[New Judge]

Nothing has (well nothing that he could have influenced, anyway).

[237SJ]

I suspect that most people who oppose the 3rd runway live in the Uk and commute to LHR via public transport. The majority of passengers transit through Heathrow and connect onto other flights. Many of them miss their flights due to their aircraft having to hold and by the time they land, they have missed their connection. If the UK and LHR want's to remain as a hub and stay ahead of the game, then a 3rd runway is imperative. Personally, I think that when we do actually get the 3rd runway, we will need a 4th

[237SJ]

New Judge "Meanwhile hub air traffic that should rightly go via Heathrow will go via Schipol. No it won't because the airlines that fly out of Scipol don't have the worldwide routes and connections that we have out of LHR and that is why LHR is one of the most importing airports in the world

[237SJ]

*important*

[237SJ]

Oh, and I think that is something to be proud of. Shame some people don't think the same

[Bazile]

He had a call from Abdul his very busy tailor telling him he had a cancellation , and could slot him in for a fiting for that nice Thobe he wanted .

He had to come straightaway Abdul told him

[Deskdiary]

They should just bulldoze their way through this, get on with it, and ride roughshod over the objectors in order to get the bloody job done.

We need the 3rd runway and have done so for years - and like 237SJ I think when we're putting in the 3rd, we may as well put in a 4th at the same time.

While we're at it - let's put a 2nd runway at Gatwick.

Unfortunately the 3rd runway issue is going to be rattling on for may years to come with the ecomorons and the nimbyists, and any other pressure group (Save The Heathrow Gnat - if there was such an animal I have no doubt there'd be a group to save them) and I suspect one of the world's most important airports will still be operating from two runways in 20 years time....although by then it'll probably have been taken over by other European airports as a preferred hub.

I can't imagine any other country having to jumps through so many hoops in order to build something that we need to be built.

[douglas9401]

Some might see him as dishonest, untrustworthy and without the balls to see a thing through.

At least I hope they do, before it's too late and he goes any higher.

[weecalf]

Did Boris go awol after the brexit vote too maybe he’s just shy .

[gulliver1]

He should go, this should be the end of him,get rid, before his misguided supporters try to make make him PM.