Gordon Brown today hailed the chaos at Heathrow Terminal 5 as a positive step towards curbing air travel and its associated environmental damage.
The large number of cancelled flights was helping to contribute to massive savings in CO2 emissions. Bringing the government back on track with its environmental targets.
David Cameroon, leader of the opposition, said this was a big turnaround for the government: "Originally the Labour government was going to achieve its environmental targets by taxing the public on the necessities of survival." He admitted that Mr Brown had pulled off a political coup by "cutting down on emissions that were easy to control and won't hurt people's day-to-day living".
Even environmental groups were left reeling from this sudden change of heart. A spokesman for Greenpeas was reported as saying, "we applaud this switch of policy by the government; air travel is a luxury and puts CO2 into the area of the atmosphere where it causes most damage." In the meantime a spokesman for Friends of the Girth said "...we're going to have to radically rethink our position with regards to the British Government's plans for expanding airports. Clearly larger airports now result in fewer flights..."
