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The response from the Aviation Minister to my submission to the UK Airspace Policy Consultation

April 4, 2017 0 Comments

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John Redwood@johnredwood6h

The high taxes imposed by this government have slashed new jobs and closed farms and factories.Then they offer some subsidies to try to ease the problems. This is destructive, imposing double costs on taxpayers to collect the money in then to give some back.

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John Redwood@johnredwood7h

The government’s delay with its defence budget is alarming. Talk of more cuts in the new ships and planes needed. No talk of cutting welfare spending by getting people back to work to pay for national security.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 9

... is running their interview with me on populism and conservatism.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 9

Given the continuing inability of Iran and the US to re open sea lanes for commerce, what plans does the UK government have to help secure reliable supplies of fertiliser and oil products? Why no plans to produce more at home?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 9

When will the PM contact President Putin to get Ukraine talks started? Or was the meeting at Downing Street just for show with no follow up?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 9

Why did the PM U turn from wanting Ukraine to fight on to expel Russia, to wanting Ukraine to make concessions to negotiate a peace? What is the PM going to do to help get a peace deal?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 8

@Joe_Valachi777 I do not express support for candidates in foreign elections. I offer advice on how the UK can respond to the leaders other countries choose.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 8

The Archbishop wants to regulate AI more without saying how. All our laws against harms like fraud, theft, libel, hate speech, incitement to violence, and sexual abuse already apply to doing these things by computer.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 8

What is the UK getting from EU re set for the damaging sacrifice of money and lawmaking to Brussels? Making it easier to import more will close more of our factories and farms, adding to the huge costly goods trade deficit we already run with them.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 8

The PM should ring President Trump and tell him the Chagos islands are not for sale. The UK is keeping them.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 7

@peacey2010 Not so. Foreign companies were prepared to invest in our oil and gas where the state and UK companies did not.They paid us huge taxes to do so.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 7

The latest poll showing more than twice as many people oppose giving more powers and money to the EU than support it should lead the government to drop their ill conceived and potentially damaging re set. They offer too many concessions for no wins.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 7

The government says our energy prices are dictated by a world market oil and gas price. So why is our energy around 4 times the price of US and 3 times China?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 7

Rumours that the government will concede a deep discounted fee for EU students attending UK universities. How would universities make up for the big loss of revenue?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 6

Good to see the public decisively rejects surrendering powers to make laws and taxes to EU, with 59% against and just 27% in favour. See @BritainUnbound and @Telegraph .The EU re set is a very bad deal which will not promote growth.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 6

If the government is now keen for farmers to grow and sell more food they should start with the home market, where there is plenty of scope to sell more. That cuts the food miles with all those transport emissions. Change policy and subsidies to support home food growing.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 6

The farming industry says signing up to EU food rules could cost £800 m just for the transition, along with restrictions on innovation and research. More government damage to our farms.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 5

The government is watering down its promise of more state teachers. It is discovering its VAT move has landed it with a big bill as pupils transfer to state schools.Some private schools have to close, sacking their staff.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 5

In the Lords debate we told the government high UK energy prices are helping destroy industry with many closures and job losses.High taxes, emissions trading and the need to pay for back up to unreliable renewables are all damaging policies the government can change.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 5

The government complains that dear gas gives us dear electricity. They can stop that by removing their huge carbon taxes on gas. They also make gas power dearer and less fuel efficient by switching it on and off as and when the wind changes.

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↻Brexit Facts4EU.Org@Facts4euOrgJun 4

Excellent comments from @johnredwood in this report. You can read these here: ... or in the @GBNEWS version here: ... We recommend both versions! And pls re-post! ...

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 4

Every time something goes wrong with public services the government tries to avoid blame, announcing a review. It says it cannot say anything before seeing the review. They are running these services so they should know what went wrong and should respond faster to disaster.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 4

So the government’s answer to water shortages is a new Water Regulator. Getting on with building new reservoirs would be a better idea. Why not get the present Regulator to do their job? Why do we keep adding to the population without adding more water resource?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 4

Why does the government stop the flow of tax that would come from more UK oil and gas production, so we have to pay huge taxes instead to foreign countries for imports? @Facts4euOrg today sets out this huge self harm. There’s more than £200 bn awaiting a sensible government.

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↻Brexit Facts4EU.Org@Facts4euOrgJun 4

Our Brexit Facts4EU Net Zero madness report is the top politics story on GB News! Please click and re-tweet it! ...

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 3

I asked the government yesterday how many jobs will be lost in steel using industries in the UK as a result of the high steel tariffs being imposed. No answer. Did they not think about that, or is it too worrying to say?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 3

Yesterday in the Lords I pointed out the Impact statement for the government’s civil aviation bill says no financial benefits from it over the next three years. Another missed opportunity to boost growth of an important industry.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 3

Why did the government publish so many nearly blank and uninformative pages in its response on Mandelson? Waste of much of the money and paper when we need to see the key exchanges with the PM over the appointment and checks.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 2

Labour’s Housing Bill sets out to stop people buying their social rented home, or to make it dearer to do so. Why this attack on people’s security and wish to reach retirement without rent bills?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 2

Why did the government publish so many nearly blank pages in its Mandelson papers? Why so many messages or exchanges with most of the content removed?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 2

Glad to see some people in government are critical of just looking for more ways to tax people in order to pay more benefits. Pity that remains government policy.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 1

My new book “Who’s right? “ sets out conservative values and policies for today and looks at populist parties on both sides of Atlantic. ( Bite-sized Books, available on Amazon)

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 1

@Kemi Badenoch’s reply to Tony Blair is brilliant. The government needs to radically change its hostile treatment of the job and wealth creators who pay the bills. It needs to cut its damaging interventions especially on energy and reduce its bloated benefits bill.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 1

Nationalising the railways will not end delays and cancellations. A majority of these were caused by nationalised Network Rail pre full nationalisation. There will be huge costs and losses sent to taxpayers.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 31

The nationalised railway is cutting some services this summer in a desperate attempt to stem its big losses. Still plenty of cancellations and late running trains. A new name and a new livery for some coaches does not deliver service improvements.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 31

Two years into government and still no signs of the new reservoirs, new back up gas fired power stations, extra grid and better roads we need to boost growth and encourage private sector investment.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 31

The government is so busy trying to replace gas fired power with windfarms, it has forgotten we will need lots more electricity to power their net zero world and to allow growth. Bad news they cannot offer enough electricity to expand Heathrow and all the datacentres we need.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 30

@steam_simon Not so. There was no drop of 4% in GDP from Brexit. UK economy continued to perform like other major EU economies and still runs a big trade deficit with EU as we did as members.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 30

See my blog saying the government has changed so much for the worse ...

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 30

Mr Miliband saying there are no wins from getting out our own oil and gas misses the obvious. World CO 2 is reduced. We get more well paid jobs here. The UK pockets the huge tax revenues on the oil and gas instead of paying taxes to Qatar and USA.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 30

The government’s planned SPS food agreement with the EU means lower standards of food safety and animal welfare. The UK has not had Foot and Mouth disease or Swine fever with our controls. The EU has too many outbreaks.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 30

The OBR forecast as Conservatives left office was for 2026 2% UK GDP growth, unemployment 4.2% and inflation 1.9% . After Labour’s tax rises they now forecast just 1.1% UK growth, unemployment up at 5.3% and inflation up at 2.3% for 2026.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 29

Labour two years on keep blaming the last government. In office they have put up unemployment, put up inflation, increased energy prices, banned new oil,gas and making petrol cars after 2030. They inherited 2% inflation and the fastest growing G7 economy. Why change that?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 29

Conservatives in office in May 2024 16-24 year old unemployment was 13.8%. Has now shot up to 16.2% as a result of Labour’s job destruction policies. Conservatives got it down to 9.2% before the Ukraine war hiked energy prices and interest rates.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 29

Helen Whately yesterday was telling Radio 4 listeners how to get more young people off sickness benefit and into jobs. She was not trying to duck questions. The BBC kept interrupting, shifting the question before the answer to the last one. Why?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 29

Government should reverse its anti job measures to bring down youth unemployment. See ...

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↻Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenochMay 28

Labour entered government and ⬇️hiked employers National Insurance ⬇️hiked the minimum wage ⬇️loaded new regulations on businesses The result? Employers stopped hiring young people. @Conservatives will listen to business, back more apprenticeships and reduce tax and red tape. ...

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↻Brexit Facts4EU.Org@Facts4euOrgMay 28

“To Join, but not to Rejoin, that is the question” With this Government heading ever faster into the EU’s arms, we ask what it really knows. Important news for current (and possibly future?) members of the UK Government. Report: ... Pls re-post ! ...

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John Redwood@johnredwoodMay 28

@realninawysocka Margaret Thatcher

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