Third fucking runway

Yes that's right kids! Our government has put beyond doubt that it does not give a shit about it's people, our future and our children's future. Yes, I am angry, yes this blog will be a fucking awful piece of writing, but honestly, I think I have a valid reason this time...

I'm in the process of writing another blog at the moment but when I saw the news that the plans to expand Heathrow had been approved, I had to vent. Geoff "Saddam Hussein has WMDs" Hoon has decided that his brilliant work in taking the UK into an illegal war for oil (shows that just because you have a LAW degree from Oxford doesn't mean you can't be an absolute fucktard) isn't enough of a legacy and that he needs to strengthening his position near the top of the New Labour league table of idiocy! The 3rd runway will go ahead. Now the evironmental impact of this is obvious for all to see so that's not what I'm going to concentrate on, other than to say that Heathrow's carbon emissions will increase by 7 million tonnes a year, and to put that into perspective the average household causes emission of around 5 tons through power generation and 5 tons through transport. So what Hoon has basically said yes to is something that will stop 1,400,000 desparately needed houses from being built if the UK is to meet it's target to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050.

Now I'm not usually one for looking at the human impact of whatever issue I'm bitching about, but one part of the article really shocked me. Cherry Lane cemetery doesn't actually lie in the area that would be built upon by the airport itself but the proposed roadway that would service the new runway and Terminal 6 would pass straight through it. This would mean the entire cemetery would have to "emptied", yes, every single body that lies there would be dug up and the best thing is that BAA have no current plans of what to do with the people's loved ones once they've distrubed them from the eternal sleep. So not only does our government not care about it's living citizens, it doesn't give much thought the dead ones either.

There's only one thing that can stop it from happening, regime change. Unfortunately it's a sad reflection on our country that the Tories now hold the moral highground, but they have at least come out and said that they would scrap the plans if they came into power, but until then all we can do is protest, sign up to Greenpeace's Airplot campaign, write to your MP, do all of the usual stuff, but this time do more.

The worst part of this whole saga for me isn't the effect on the people of Sipson or even the continued fucking up of our climate, it's been the final proof, if it was needed, of how the government is under the control of corporations. The British Airport Association was consulted by Hoon over the decision. Yeah that's right, the company that wanted the runway to be built was consulted on what to decide.. Honestly, what the fuck? Just what the fuck is it going to take for this government to change their habits of bending over for every corporation that they come across? It's going to take you. We're going to have to get ourselves on the streets and tell these disgusting excuses for human beings what we think of them, this is our country, not just theirs, they are our servants, we are not theirs and most important of all, they are accountable to us.