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What Terry Waite says is correct. This isn't NIMBYism, we don't resent the airport existing.
What we do resent is Central Government telling us where and when things are going to happen. Central Government should have no say as to what happens in other counties and districts. Maybe they can suggest things, but they go further than that. If a County or District disagrees with what the Government things is right, they then try to do things by force, and that is what is happening at Stansted.
There's not a single MP or Councillor in Uttlesford who supports the expansion of Stansted. Thousands of residents oppose the expansion, even the Opposition oppose the expansion. Central Government doesn't like that - it won't make them any money. So what do Central Government do? They ignore all of opinions of the MPs, Councillors, campaign groups and residents, and they try to plough ahead with the plans anyway. In fact, Central Government try to do that with many plans for expansions such as housing developments, Eco-Towns and other Airports all across the country.
This Government does not care about the opinions of the people, merely about making money. This Government does not care about the environment. How dare a Government tell the populous to stop using their cars, wear two jumpers, not throw away so much food and recycle all of their waste, but at the same time approve plans which will destroy miles of countryside, ruin lives, and double the passenger intake at one airport, thus making the pollution far worse? Oh, that's right, one rule for the Government, a completely different one for the people.
How dare the Government prosthelyze that by expanding Stansted it will help the local economy? Where are they going to find people to work there? They aren't, because the unemployment in this area is very low, and the population quite aged. People will need to be imported from other areas of Britain, or abroad to fill the gaps. That means more houses are needed. Uttlesford have already fought numerous planning applications for more housing developments because the area cannot sustain any more people. Gatwick comfortably handles double the amount of passengers per year than Stansted does, yet there are no plans to expand it. Why's that? Could it be because Stansted is in a part of Britain that is not yet a concrete playground? It's almost as though this Labour Government do not want any part of Britain to remain as countryside. And what pisses them off the most is that people enjoy living in Uttlesford. Now, a Labour Government cannot have people enjoying their life wherever they may live.
Our esteemed Labour, Socialist, bunch-of-cunts of a Government want to destroy this district as well as the lives of the people living in it. And for what? What will they get out of it? More money. Will that money be put into sustaining what will then be left of Uttlesford? Of course not, it will go into Government Coffers to pay for more wars or further damaging developments in other areas.
The Labour Governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown do not and have never cared about the populous. They merely care about their own egos, legacies and lining their own pockets at whatever cost to the public.
And that's why we should all try to Stop the Stansted Expansion, and help Uttlesford fight the proposals.
