[Paleo Conservative]

It sends totally the wrong message for ministers to be spending millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on two new, official planes at a time when jobs are being cut in the NHS

Chris Grayling
Shadow transport secretary

[Paleo Conservative]

Mr Blair currently uses charter
planes and the Queen's Flight

If you want on or off my aerospace ping list, please contact me by Freep mail.

[ChuckShick]

But Labour replied that all Mr Blair's flights had been "carbon neutral" since April 2005.

Huh? They should fly a kite instead.

[Energy Alley]

British Prime Ministers are fortunate that the British public and media don't begrudge 10 Downing Street for having electricity and indoor plumbing.

This will be as well received as describing a kilt as a skirt.

[llevrok]

It sends totally the wrong message for ministers to be spending millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on two new, official planes at a time when jobs are being cut in the NHS

Then Recycle

[plain talk]

We are entitled to ask what the prime minister intends to do to reduce the environmental impact of his travel," he said

That's easy. He's PM. He just buys carbon credits.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

But Labour replied that all Mr Blair's flights had been "carbon neutral" since April 2005.

Thanks to the environ'mental' global warming tards like Al Gore, we are going to have to hear about this "carbon footprint" crap for many years to come.

[Brian Allen]

<< A spokesman for the Transport and General Workers Union, said it was "extraordinary that the prime minister should not be flying in a British-built 'plane." >>

It would be even more extraordinary if he was.

Given that generations of Britain's mobbed-up bloody unions and their gangsters-as-politician Labour Party cohorts [And, beginning with the well-known habitual drunkard and Whittle jet engine "donating" Winston Churchill, plenty of "Conservatives," too] have work-ruled and regulated once great Britain's once truly great Aircraft [And every other!] Industry completely out of existence!

Or, as anyone who regularly deals with them can attest, is it any wonder so many of Boeing's, Pratt and Whitney's and GE's et al's very best designers and engineers have British accents?

[toddlintown]

Right, right. When he heads towards the States, he should be taking a merchant ship. When he arrives here, a Greyhound to get to the White House.

Not a big carbon footprint. Just looks like a cheap ass.

[RayChuang88]

I wonder why the British government didn't snap up an ex-airline Airbus A340-200 and convert that into an executive plane. The shorter range plane would probably be an Airbus A319CJ, though.