BackHeathrow (paid for by airport - not a grass roots campaign), send biased scare-mongering survey to half a million airportwatch.org.uk/?p=18000 A lobbying group - called BackHeathrow - funded by Heathrow Airport is to distribute a survey to half a million homes, to try and get some favourable views on a new Heathrow runway. They are using fear as a tactic, to get local people worried that they might lose their jobs if the airport was not allowed to expand. There is, of course, no prospect of Heathrow being closed - the BackHeathrow tactic is irresponsible and ill-advised. John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington, bordering Heathrow to the north and under threat from a northern runway, said it was just another front organisation funded by the airport and another cynical spurious public relations exercise. John Stewart, chairman of HACAN, said BackHeathrow claims it is a grass roots campaign but no grass roots campaign has the sort of funding to send out half a million surveys. This is astoturfing, not a real citizens initiative. BackHeathrow survey results must be treated with great scepticism, when/if they come out. Its so badly worded & biased as to be valueless.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:03:37 +0000
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