We’re all in on the culture war now
New national parking platform
…if that means what I think it means, it’s probably the worst of the lot.
Take it from an American: mandatory minimum parking will absolutely ruin your towns and cities.
Sorry for downvote, it’s not that at all.
At the moment each carpark on the UK can use any app it likes on mobile to pay, so you end up with every place having its own. Dozens of apps on phones to pay for parking, having to remember which one is right for the one you’re in today.
The proposal is to have a single app and have different car parks sign up to it so it’s easier for people to pay.
I say proposal. It’s not a plan is it. Idea? Dream? Fantasy? I dunno how much they can do before they are forced to call an election and get kicked out.
More and more American cities are removing them too!
What a fucking idiot. Has he been living under a rock? He’s going out of his way to remake all of America’s mistakes. Absolute buffoon.
That’s been Britain since the 2010s, they all caught Ameriboo fever and want to be a carbon copy of burgerland.
It’s alway funny when a Brit gets really mad at any non-Brit discussing politics and says, “it’s not like the US!” Idk their politicians seem to be trying pretty damn hard to ape whatever the Dems and Republicans are doing.
The Tories here in the UK are trying to emulate the GOP, of that there is no doubt. They’d also force us poors back into victorian era workhouses given the chance.
Letting people travel “how they want” he says while cancelling new train lines for those who wants to use that. The blokes a disengenuious wanker who we can’t be rid of quick enough.
“I love cars. Therefore we should mandate that EVERYONE drives!”
As someone who is forced to drive because I was unlucky enough to be born in bumfuck nowhere: fuck you. I hate always-busy traffic. If waiting in line is your idea of fun, go watch paint dry or something. I’m too busy to lengthen my commute.
Have you seen the latest from Macron ? he said exactly that a few days ago. You can make out the car & oil lobby through his words https://youtu.be/Tpbci1kOMEM
Rough transcript :
“We (the french) care about our cars. Me ? I dig/love it.”
More freedom for people that can afford to buy a car and live in an area with ample parking. But no freedom for everyone else amirite
You’re free to travel how you like as long as you keep the fuck out of my way and breathe in my car farts
Honestly Labour has been quiet about the Tories panic promises leading up to the election next year. We know they have been swapping approaches and going back on their own manifesto. The Green party has been making decent promises, however, unlike the Labour party.
Labour Vs Green
🔴No wealth tax 🟢£70bn Wealth Tax
🔴Tuition Fees 🟢Free Tuition
🔴Private NHS 🟢Nationalise NHS
🔴£10 p/h+ 🟢£15 p/h+
🔴Pro-Trident v 🟢Anti-Trident
🔴Privatised Energy 🟢Public Energy
🔴No UBI 🟢 Pro UBI
🔴Migrant Crackdown 🟢Refugees welcome
🔴No promise to building council housing 🟢500,000 council homes
🔴 Keep 2 Child Cap 🟢 Abolish 2 Child Cap
🔴 Back Oil Drilling 🟢 Green New Deal
I’d probably vote green if they had any chance of winning, but their opposition to HS2 annoys me. They support building a new north south rail link, but not the one we’re already building.
britain must be one of the only places on earth more hopeless than the US
Death to America
It is endlessly frustrating to see the tories have any kind of traction with a narrative of opposing an oppressive or overreaching government direction. They ARE the government, they HAVE BEEN the government since 2010, and before the Blair years they were the government since 1979
All you have to say is “conservative”
My god what a trainwreck. I’m so sorry folks
My main question is:
If Sunak thought 20mph speed limits were such a big problem, why didn’t he block the Senedd passing them like he did with Scottish parliament reforming GRA (or the Senedd’s attempts to do the same)?
Parliament has been blocking English councils from setting 20mph speed limits locally, so it can’t be that he’s suddenly changed his mind about local democracy.
Labour are shooting themselves in the foot. Instead of proposing a tax on the ultra wealthy to try and subsidize buying less polluting cars. They are forcing the poor to buy cars they can’t afford in cities where public transport is both not complete and expensive. They have lost touch with the working class. Alienating them against climate action. And driving them to the arms of the Tories.
None of this post is about Labour…
It kinda is. Because this is the Tories’ response to Labour and Sadiq Khan expanding Ulez in London
for many, life would be difficult without their car
Hmmm, I wonder what kind of policies and public services could be implemented to make life not difficult for non-car users? 🤔
Ah yes, the freedom to be stuck in traffic jams. Now where have I heard that before…
No! They will add a lane! Can’t be stuck on another lane!
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Brits will do this to themselves and then in 10-20 years complain about how they have no friends or significant other because it’s hard to meet people. All while continuing to vote for people like this.
