As someone who only this week totally misread a ridiculously pro-Brexit post on another forum, and couldn't see the irony in it for the red mist, and also as someone who has form for upsetting people on this forum when they took me seriously in posts that were designed to be tongue in cheek, I'm going to be very careful in what I say here
The individual who proposed building an airport half way to France was clearly so London-focused in his thinking that he completely forgot to look at and/ or fully understand a map of the British Isles.
Contrary to the man's undersrtanding of things, the world does not end at Watford. Putting an airport just beyond the bottom right hand corner of the dry bits of the British Isles would mean that the world and his wife would be clogging up the M25 day and night seven days a week to get to it. It would also mean that all those thousands currently employed at Heathrow, or closely connected to it in some employment way, would either have to move, whacking up house prices in that bottom right hand corner even further, or commute from where they are now, once again clogging up the M25.
So by saving the little dear's sensitive iugholes in Uxbridge and Hounslow from those big nasty planes over tgeir heads, you turn the country's road network into permanent gridlock.
And this is the man who has now managed to con himself into The Big Job. Unusually for me, words fail me - or perhaps I'm just keeping schtum..
