Britain is meant to be open for business – so why delay crucial airport expansion?
Further Heathrow-Gatwick hesitation demonstrates Britain is completely incapable of pressing forward when it matters most - and won't impress potential trading partners
Airport fiasco
WHY is Britain so incapable of pressing the button on major projects?
It is beyond belief that the great Heathrow-Gatwick decision has been kicked even further down the road.
The Government will unveil its choice next week. But that’s only the start.
Then comes a long public consultation, another three-month inquiry and a Commons vote as late as spring 2018.
It’s absurd. For three years the Davies Commission exhaustively investigated the options. The arguments are known. What is gained by further delay?
Jobs, firms, homes and lives are in limbo. Britain needs to show, very quickly, that it’s wide open for business.
Other countries must instead be aghast at our paralysis.
They’re kidding
VISIONS of kiddies wandering helpless and alone among predators in the Calais Jungle melted even the hardest of hearts. Britain had to save them.
Why, then, were the first to arrive strapping, hairy-chested blokes in their late teens or 20s? One’s 35 if he’s a day.
There’s not a young child, or a female of any age, among them.
Without documents, officials simply took their ages on trust. What a fiasco.
And yet we know there ARE small, vulnerable children still in the camp.
Why weren’t they rescued first?
Troubled? Yes
AGAIN and again David Cameron’s flagship £1.3billion Troubled Families programme has been trumpeted as a huge success.
The Government has claimed it has turned around hundreds of thousands of lives — 98.9 per cent of families involved.
A new official report alleges there is no hard evidence for any of it. That it has had no measurable effect on school performance, job prospects, criminality or welfare dependency.
The Sun backs imaginative, well researched ideas to transform lives and ultimately save the country money.
The Government stands by this one, but the report makes shocking reading.
Theresa May must re-examine it. If it’s not working she must fix it or pull the plug.
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Inflated fears
ANY snippet of economic news now induces childlike panic in some Remainers.
Yesterday inflation ticked up harmlessly to one per cent, half the Bank of England target. It was greeted like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Remainers were too busy shrieking to hear the Office of National Statistics confirm it had little to do with the referendum result or the Pound’s fall.
We fear for them in the event of a genuine downturn, which may yet come.
They’ll be speaking in tongues.