The Thames estuary airport proposal shows the true Tory agenda.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

News that the coalition government is to consult on proposals for a major new hub airport on the bird-rich mudflats of the Thames estuary is the end of one story and the confirmation of another. The first is a fairytale that green groups have tried to believe for years: that the Conservative party opposed expanding or building major airports because it shared their opposition to the noise, pollution and concrete. The second is the conspiracy theory that many of the same environmentalists, political watchers and residents under flight paths have read between the lines of successive Tory statements: that they have never ruled out all the options at once, and thus expansion would eventually happen. …