Guardianistas invent and inhabit a world that suits their ideological view of how it ought to be, and then they pretend that it is reality. This is from a letter in today’s Guardian:
Interesting to note how the municipally owned airports such as Manchester and Liverpool have coped with the big freeze, while Heathrow has excelled itself as an example of our superbly run private sector. Relying on the Salvation Army to provide assistance to those waiting seems to illustrate perfectly the Tory recipe for the country's future – let people lap up a little charity while big business preoccupies itself with ludicrous bonuses for incompetent managers.
John Strongman, Manchester
In fact Liverpool airport was privatised in 1990. Moreover, John Strongman from Manchester really should be aware that Liverpool’s position near the coast gives it a climate that is usually several degrees warmer than the inland area, and that it is by no means unusual for the weather in Liverpool to be considerably better than in the south-east of England. The same is also true to a certain extent of Manchester – apart from the incessant rain there of course. Extremely low temperatures have been recorded there recently but that is most unusual, as is snow in Merseyside.
Mr Strongman might also like to know that I am sitting in Barcelona having had a flight to Liverpool cancelled twice last weekend. I am scheduled to fly tomorrow. As far as I can make out, the problems were in part due to the closure of Liverpool airport for a time. My return flight to Barcelona after last Christmas was cancelled because of bad weather at Liverpool airport, as was a flight to Liverpool just before Christmas 2001 or 2002.
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