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Airport expansion for London
It is hardly surprising that those opposing the expansion of Heathrow feel that they have no chance of stopping it growing. Whatever Brown may say about Britain ‘taking the lead in combating climate change’ it is yet more meaningless babble from one of the masters of spin [lies]. Today’s opening of Heathrow’s Terminal 5, amid the arrest of protesters, illustrates the close ties between BAA, the ‘owners’ of Heathrow, and the Brown Government. Spokes-whore of Spanish-owned BAA is Tom Kelly, who joined them in October last year as group director of corporate and public affairs, a few months after retiring from Downing Street as Tony Blair's official spokesman. When it began lobbying in earnest for airport growth in the UK, BAA supported the lobby group Freedom to Fly. At that time, the director of BAA's Public Affairs was Steve Hardwick, who had previously worked for four years for John Prescott who was later in charge of transport policy. Freedom to Fly was headed by Joe Irvin, Prescott's former special adviser, who is now working inside Number 10 for Gordon Brown. The group was chaired by Brenda Dean, a New Labour stalwart and former trade union official. Labour MPs have recently been invited to a drinks and nibbles reception by Lord Soley, the former chairman of the Labour Parliamentary Party. It's been paid for by Future Heathrow, a lobby organisation backing the expansion of the airport. And they call it democracy. I call it pigs at the trough.
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