Date published: 2008/10/09
The BBC says:
Controversial plans for an expansion of Stansted Airport in Essex have been given the go-ahead by the government.
Airport owner BAA wants to increase passenger numbers from 25 million to 35 million a year and flights leaving the airport from 241,000 to 264,000 a year.
Objectors said an expansion would damage the environment but some unions said the proposal could bring new jobs.
Uttlesford District Council leader Jim Ketteridge said the decision was a blow for the community.
Needless to say this is good news for all of East Anglia except for a narrow slice near Stansted. Unfortunately, this decision will almost certainly be challenged in the courts by some locals and the so-called environmentalists, and given that judges are from the same academic middle class background as the protestors, there is a very good chance that the court will overrule the government. That would kill Stansted expansion for decades because the next government will be Tory, and the Tories would never allow Stansted to expand (since the Tory landed gentry would be upset, the same reason they oppose all development of any sort in East Anglia and in other Tory parts of England).
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