Leeds Bradford - General Thread

[Len Fish]

Weather alteration on a World wide basis? I very much doubt it.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

I noticed this earlier.
Airport fails to find new operator.

Discussion on the DSA thread

Yorkshire Post

An alternative plan for a new council-owned company to run the site would be backed by £105m of public cash, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.

www.facebook.com

 

[Bigman]

I noticed this earlier.
Airport fails to find new operator.

Discussion on the DSA thread

Yorkshire Post

An alternative plan for a new council-owned company to run the site would be backed by £105m of public cash, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.

www.facebook.com

So much for filling pot holes in then.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

"Unfair competition": Leeds Bradford Airport boss hits out at plan to give Doncaster Sheffield Airport £90m public subsidy

The boss of Leeds Bradford Airport has hit out at plans to provide a grant of almost £90m in public funds to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

 

[Snackbar]

Leeds Bradford Airports Aviation Development Manager Tom Holdsworth has just posted these internal fitout pictures of the new Terminal extension on his LinkedIn account.

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It’s looking good! Maybe WH may get a tour at the next ACC?
Meanwhile LBA, it’s CEO and the new terminal developments are getting a real kicking form the DSA fanatics on the Yorkshire Post Facebook page. Won’t need any salt to grit the roads in SY

 

[twevsmiff]

 

[Len Fish]

I half expected Captain Boycott to make an appearance!

 

[Aviador]

I half expected Captain Boycott to make an appearance!

Personally I find there's nothing more cringe worthy to watch than that sketch.

 

[Finger66]

So don't watch it, just boycott it. And even if you do watch it, just the opening bit will do. Right I am stumped for any more cricket puns

 

[lbaspotter]

Did anyone else watch the Laura Kuenssberg Sunday politics show on BBC1 this morning.

If not you missed the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoc during her interview call-out the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Racheal thieves a hypocrite live on TV, seen as the Labour Government is now backing Airport expansion across the UK but she’s gone and blocked it next to her own constituency at Leeds Bradford Airport..

Well done Kemi!

 

[Len Fish]

You’ve run out of puns then.

 

[Aviador]

Did anyone watch the Laura Kuenssberg Sunday politics show on BBC1 this morning.

If not you missed the Conservative the leader Kemi Badenoc during her interview call-out Racheal thieves a hypocrite live on TV, seen as the Labour Government is now backing Airport expansion across the UK but she’s gone and blocked it next to her own constituency at Leeds Bradford Airport..

Well done Kemi!

While that is absolutely true we should also call out Conservative MP Robert Genrick for not growing some balls, but instead he sat on the LBA plans so a dicision never got made.

You wouldn't have a link would you so I can see Kemi?

 

[lbaspotter]

While that is absolutely true we should also call out Conservative MP Robert Genrick for not growing some balls, but instead he sat on the LBA plans so a dicision never got made.

You wouldn't have a link would you so I can see Kemi?

I totally agree regards your comments about Robert Genrick, but that was the previous government and a lot has changed since then.

I’m guessing it I’ll be on the BBC IPlayer..

 

[dmrodgers]

While that is absolutely true we should also call out Conservative MP Robert Genrick for not growing some balls, but instead he sat on the LBA plans so a dicision never got made.

You wouldn't have a link would you so I can see Kemi?

Links to today's interview, view from 53 minutes 40 seconds. Not a great deal about airports and LBA just passing comment.

BBC One - Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Boosting the Economy, AI and Paul McCartney

Guests include Rachel Reeves MP, chancellor, and Kemi Badenoch MP, Conservative leader.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Snackbar]

Links to today's interview, view from 53 minutes 40 seconds. Not a great deal about airports and LBA just passing comment.

BBC One - Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Boosting the Economy, AI and Paul McCartney

Guests include Rachel Reeves MP, chancellor, and Kemi Badenoch MP, Conservative leader.

www.bbc.co.uk

I’d not be surprised if the Tory party don’t raise this again….Stuart Andrew is now Chief Whip and whilst even he didn’t fully back the pans he knows the history and it won’t stop them making political capital out of it….

 

[HX3]

I watched it and agree - well done Kemi for calling her out. Rachel Reeves is such a shape shifter, personally I find her to be like saccharine. Sickly sweet, and just like saccharine totally artificial. Tries to please, but fails wholeheartedly to deliver.

 

[Cookridge resident]

The Labour Party have been in office for six months. Previously, The Conservative and Unionist Party were in charge for 14 years. As the old teleprompter used to say “ fourteen”
Kemi herself has been an MP for 8 (eight) years and had held the offices of “President of the Board of Trade” and also “ Secretary of State for Business and Trade “ whilst in Government - in positions where you would think she might have some influence over such matters as, say, business and/or trade.
I am no particular fan of this Labour government, but any attempt to glamourise or lionise Kemi’s recently discovered appetite for populism should be judged against her actions rather than her mealy mouthed words.
Just my opinion, of course.

 

[Len Fish]

Jenrick is the real culprit in the new terminal debacle. He had it in his power to allow the planning permission to go ahead but just sat on the case. His successor Gove was almost as bad because once again the issue was ducked by him by announcing a Public Inquiry. Yes Reeves is a hypocrite but she was in opposition at the time of the application with no power to decide the issue. Jenrick and Gove both had control of the levers of power but both just kicked the issue into the long grass for someone else to sort out. Little wonder the country is going to the dogs with the politicians we have. Not an ounce of flair, courage or conviction between them just lots of ideological hot air whilst the likes of LBA who want to generate growth, jobs and income just meet with the lack lustre brick wall of political cowardice and mediocrity.

 

[White Heather]

Jenrick is the real culprit in the new terminal debacle. He had it in his power to allow the planning permission to go ahead but just sat on the case. His successor Gove was almost as bad because once again the issue was ducked by him by announcing a Public Inquiry. Yes Reeves is a hypocrite but she was in opposition at the time of the application with no power to decide the issue. Jenrick and Gove both had control of the levers of power but both just kicked the issue into the long grass for someone else to sort out. Little wonder the country is going to the dogs with the politicians we have. Not an ounce of flair, courage or conviction between them just lots of ideological hot air whilst the likes of LBA who want to generate growth, jobs and income just meet with the lack lustre brick wall of political cowardice and mediocrity.

Perhaps Jenrick was thinking back to his time as a student in Leeds when, no doubt, he was indoctrinated with anti LBA propaganda. So rather than sign off an already approved planning application (but one approved by one of those nasty Labour Councils), he just 'lost it' instead in the darkest depths of his in-tray.

Reeves is, undoubtedly a hypocrite although in the event of an LBA planning application in the future, she will only confirm that fact if she dares to object again after approving huge growth at the London Airports. She has, effectively, painted herself into a corner, and made things more difficult for the other 4 Leeds Labour MPs too. Would they now oppose LBA and their own Government Policy? I'm sure our useless MP for Headingley and Kirkstall is less than happy.

As for Badenoch, I wouldn't dare say what I think of her on here.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Jenrick is the real culprit in the new terminal debacle. He had it in his power to allow the planning permission to go ahead but just sat on the case. His successor Gove was almost as bad because once again the issue was ducked by him by announcing a Public Inquiry. Yes Reeves is a hypocrite but she was in opposition at the time of the application with no power to decide the issue. Jenrick and Gove both had control of the levers of power but both just kicked the issue into the long grass for someone else to sort out. Little wonder the country is going to the dogs with the politicians we have. Not an ounce of flair, courage or conviction between them just lots of ideological hot air whilst the likes of LBA who want to generate growth, jobs and income just meet with the lack lustre brick wall of political cowardice and mediocrity.

In other words there all as bad as each other, end of!
The country certainly is going to the dogs, landing back at lba last night, its like landing into some 3rd world country and im not just talking about the airport, we are decades behind most other western countries now when it comes to transport infrastructure.