Mr Salmond said: I put it to Howard Davies if you were to reduce APD for the north of England or give the Scottish Parliament the power to do something about it to increase the competitive position for direct international flights, then you would relieve immediately some of the pressure on the London airports. Howard Davies looked at me and said that would be a distortion of competition. Unfortunately, Ruth Davidson and her party live in a world where spending £40, £50, £60 billion on infrastructure in the south of England is not a distortion of competition, but allowing airports like Prestwick to survive and prosper by having a competitive rate of APD somehow is. Thats the topsy-turvy world of London bias that the Conservative Party have placed on Scotland.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:47:19 +0000
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