The new UK Spaceport - where to put it?

No, I'm happy with your suggestion, papaoscar. As long as there is room for visitors to watch and applaud as they rocket skywards!

Angle it out over the sea, so that they have a soft landing if/when the rockets fail. We don't want to hurt the fragile soils, do we?

Do we?

Souls, not soils! Why do they put the Y U I and O so close together on the keyboard?

Manston, Isle of Thanet. Long runway, by the sea (for elegran) good road and rail connections, easily accessible yet not densely populated.

I'd rather they spent it on road repairs.

Send the MPs on the trial run?

Fire them at Brussels?

As I live close to Manston I rather it wasn't there !!!!! How about on one of the disused oil platforms in the North Sea?!!!

No thanks Jane, we have enough windbags here as it is. You can have all the eurocrats you want to send into space. Most of us who live here in 'Brussels' just get on with our normal lives, and we do get a wee bit p****d of with our city gettting the blame for all of Englands woes.

I could tell them where to put it but it wouldn't be polite!

Ok, disused oil platform it is. And fire them at the arctic so that they can observe global warming first-hand.

Papa Can I ask 'What are they for?'

As Branson is getting a space plane ready, he should be footing the bill - perhaps building a space port on his Caribbean island.

I support popaoscar's suggestion - and feel a bit I CAN'T BELIEEEVE IT!

You ask what are they for, Granny23, and I just don't know. Perhaps somebody does!

"to take advantage of the growing space tourism industry" according to the DT

Duh! Why didn't we think of that? Forget Eurodisney and Legoland, in five or ten years we will all be going to Mars for our hols.

If we have the odd million...

DBH would go. I shall have to keep an eye on the mortgage.