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HHmmmm

I like the comment in this article :’the States warned thge vendor that compulsory purchase was an option’ if the price wasn’t right!!. Sort of threatening wouldn’t you say.

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Wasting public money that is badly needed elsewhere on a pointless high-falluting ‘objective assessment’ to determine the viability of extending the length of the runway’ as asked for by Commerce and Employment is not only totally unecessary but also very suspect. Indeed, most suspect in that Public Services has clearly stated they do not favour (ie do not want? will not agree to? Never will be party too?) such a runway extension.

That initself should be an end to it.

But no, like a child who won’t stay away from the sugar bag after being told time and again of it’s health destroying content but won’t stop until his/her teeth are rotted, Commerce and Employment has to keep pushing-the-envelope for a runway extension rather than accept the good common sense of Public Services and the Guernsey people whom it serves.

Regarding Public Services though, I would rather see politicians use plain down-to-earth language such as stating very clearly and in forthright honest terms that they ‘will not and never will’ agree to a runway extension.

But they did not. Why? And as such I believe this situation needs constant public monitoring and scrutiny for I sense a ‘creeping opportunism’ coming from Commerce and Employment in that if an ‘assessment’ is actioned with public money it will only be, from there onwards, little more than one small step into forcing a lengthened runway onto an unwilling and unnacepting community, a community that has made it clear they will not accept any excuses, any tricks, any ‘reasons’, or any dreamed up commerce fairy tales of the islands ‘imminent collapse into a deep dark pit of obsolescence’ if the extension is not agreed to, an event by the way that will never happen, guarranteed.

Scientists and accumulated bodies more studied and learned than the rest of us have made it abundently clear we are rapidly destroying our world with fossil-fuel pollution and so-called ‘progress’, air travel coming at the top of the list of world polluters. So why on earth do we continue to permit our governing bodies who, by the way, are there to serve US, to continue to try it on with ever increasing ‘expansion’ of one kind or another quite frankly in the pursuit of only two things, money and power.

If we, as a species, are to survive we must stop all further attempts at ‘expansion’.

So stop the ‘runway expansion’ talk right now. For humanity’s sake, bury it. Instead put our public money to better use serving the peoples basic down-to-earth needs before it is too late for when it is ‘too late’ there will be no need for air travel of any kind.

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