Comments on: Only the Green Party are being honest on airport expansion https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: littleoddsandpieces https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-3/#comment-672064 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:58:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-672064 Austerity cuts just make a nation more in debt. All pension and welfare reform has done is plunge the nation into more debt from the admin and constant IT changes costs, whilst starvation has risen 70 per cent in the UK since 2010.

The denial of state pension payout of 7 years for a couple has not saved one penny, as the money since 2013, all £30 billion of it, is sitting pretty in the National Insurance Fund and being called a ‘surplus’ by government and Labour party alike.

The state pension with the flat rate pension will leave huge numbers of women born from 1953 and men born from 1951 with NIL STATE PENSION FOR LIFE and three quarters of rest with even less than current lowest level of all rich nations bar poor Mexico.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

The Green party will not shout from the rooftops how The Greens would pay off national debt AND end starvation by their new and unique policies:

– Replace the cruel benefits regime costing billions in admin with a nil admin cost of:

– universal, automatic Citizen Income, non-withdrawable
to the level of the basic tax allowance

– Full State Pension for all citizens, irregardless of National Insurance contribution /. credit history, mostly lsot due to benefit rule changes and early retirement in lieu of redundancy under the massive austerity job cuts, that will only get worse with state spending due to fall to 1930s levels, before the 1945 welfare state.

Both above have a supplement for those living alone and for the disabled.

If The Greens put those policies on billboards throughout the towns and cities of England and Wales, they would pass all the other parties like they were standing still.

Anybody?

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By: Chris Lovett https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-671545 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:20:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-671545 There is spare capacity in the UK equivalent to SIX more runways. NOW! That’s why in the era of “point to point” flights, the need for expansion is just not there.

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By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-669666 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:17:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-669666 In reply to Julian.

Yea, those rail links to China.

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By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-669665 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:16:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-669665 In reply to Merlin Milner.

So penalise those nasty business visitors and help stop the middle class taking those eviiiil foreign breaks. Not to mention further discouraging paying tourists and students, etc.

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By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-669659 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:15:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-669659 In reply to GreenVision.

Shame about the normal people who want housing and transport, right.

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By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-669664 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:15:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-669664 In reply to swat.

That’s *London Southend* Airport, swat.

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By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-669658 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:13:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-669658 Look, I get it, you’d rather see the airport expansion happen in other countries, who will then benefit. At our expense.

China etc. is linking with other EU airports because we don’t have the capacity.

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By: GreenVision https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-669532 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:03:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-669532 In reply to JoeDM.

If we dont start thinking about sustainable development we will end up where you said. We cant go on as we have been and expect everything to work out. The Green Party is the only one facing up to this at present.

The Green Party are not against everything. We know that we need to build houses but lets build the right sort of houses. We know we need transport but again we need the right sort of transport.

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By: madasafish https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-669426 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:09:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-669426 “It’s simply untrue to suggest that we are losing business to other countries because of our decision not to build new runways. More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world.”

So you make a statement and justify it by making another totally unrelated statement.

If that is typical of Green Party thinking, then you are on a par with UKIP..

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By: Merlin Milner https://leftfootforward.org/2014/12/only-the-green-party-are-being-honest-on-airport-expansion/comment-page-2/#comment-669409 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:43:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=91497#comment-669409 Sorry glitch with IE. Rail in the UK is too expensive sadly, yet it is growing faster than many other country. Flying even around the UK is often cheaper that by rail. The sooner rail privatision is reversed the better. Simple national ticketing, that does not penalise those who pitch up at a station for a ticket. Also better prices for commuters. As for flying, it should be more expensive across Europe. This will reduce demand and lessen any capacity demands.

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