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Posted by: newres Apr 12 2018, 06:31 AM
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-free-bus-travel_uk_5ace4a05e4b0648767763140?ncid=fcbklnkukhpmg00000001
Posted by: TallDarkAndHandsome Apr 12 2018, 07:05 AM
What a load of old sh1t. How will this work? Bus companies get paid by the number of U25s they carry? That will be abused and the tax payer will suffer. Also how will this be paid for? I suppose if bus travel is free you can cruise all night selling drugs in the back of the bus. Perfect.
Posted by: On the edge Apr 12 2018, 07:06 AM
Whatever anyone's politics, this seems a pretty good idea from other perspectives as well. The insurance people, by their premiums, recognise the young and old as significant risks. It makes sense then, to actively promote public transport, focussed on those age groups. Additionally, it should develop sufficient use to support a better and more extensive public transport system. This is on top of potentially freeing up cinjested road space. Yes, there is a cost, but even the present austerity centric government subsidises other deemed necessary development such as green energy.
Posted by: je suis Charlie Apr 12 2018, 11:23 AM
I would like to think that this measure would be more than offset by the savings made by the reduction in accidents involving the young, a spin off benefit might be a reduction in insurance costs for everyone else. So, potentially a goodish idea.
Posted by: newres Apr 12 2018, 01:57 PM
Jeremy Corbyn! I've agreed with you and TDH today!
Posted by: Turin Machine Apr 12 2018, 03:27 PM
Concerned this may be just click bait for the young, 13billion! Where's that coming from? Granted some will come from reduced deaths but by no means all of it. JC says "by ringfencing ved" well, that monies already being spent, pull £13b out of the pot and that's money could have gone to the NHS, or education or even policing. I suspect it will lead to yet more borrowing and higher taxes. It's one of these policies that sound nice initially but fail to stand the scrutiny in the cold light of day. And in light of the fact that some councils can no longer fund bus passes for the over 60's it sounds just a bit like Diannenomics.
Posted by: newres Apr 12 2018, 03:38 PM
I think we should all be paying more tax if only because the NHS is underfunded and in crisis.
Posted by: Turin Machine Apr 12 2018, 04:19 PM
That's not in question, the question is where's the money going to come from for free bus travel? They were trumpeting free university education last year, before they realised they couldn't afford it. We need at least an extra 3% in the basic code to pay for what we want, the first party to announce that will slit its own throat.
Posted by: On the edge Apr 12 2018, 05:51 PM
Well, if we take West Berkshire, if you look inside the buses that are around; most of them have rather more spare seats than passengers. For the school run, there may well be a slight increase, but generally those that go on the bus are subsidised anyway. Ive no knowledge of the numbers, but it seems to me that this could be done at a very low or indeed no cost. If I wanted to be cynical of Labour's intention, it's a great marketing ploy, something for the young, which won't cost them - they've obviously been learning marketing!
Posted by: x2lls Apr 14 2018, 04:50 PM
I doubt that very much. How many teens/under 25s would be prepared to give up or not acquire their own transport if able, rather than buses?
Posted by: SirWilliam Apr 14 2018, 05:34 PM
Yet another case of "do what I say you want not what you want to do". If I was a teenager I think I would need to ask some very serious questions.
Posted by: newres Apr 14 2018, 05:49 PM
What time's the last bus home?
Posted by: newres Apr 14 2018, 05:50 PM
I have a feeling that if there was an election tomorrow, Labour would win.
Posted by: x2lls Apr 14 2018, 09:28 PM
Sadly, in certain not to be mentioned learning environments, I wouldn't be given the chance to ask such questions.
Posted by: je suis Charlie Apr 15 2018, 12:56 AM
I have a feeling if there was an election tomorrow, people would wake up to the threat of a pacifist, Marxist, weak, terrorist supporting, financially inept, mired in the sixties, fiscally inept opposition. But hey!ho!
Posted by: newres Apr 15 2018, 05:18 AM
Interesting. A supporter of terrorists AND a pacifist. He is a true miracle.
Posted by: newres Apr 15 2018, 06:54 AM
Which ones are they?
Posted by: On the edge Apr 15 2018, 08:44 AM
If only!
The 1960's is an ironic, but spot on choice. Essentially a choice between incompetence and ineptitude. Ted Heath v Harold Wilson.
Posted by: SirWilliam Apr 15 2018, 10:03 AM
The 1960's is an ironic, but spot on choice. Essentially a choice between incompetence and ineptitude. Ted Heath v Harold Wilson.
Don't leave poor old Alec Douglas Hume out of the analogy. A man who managed to encompass both.
Posted by: je suis Charlie Apr 15 2018, 06:28 PM
Blond walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre,
So the barman gave her one.
Posted by: Andy Capp Apr 15 2018, 08:44 PM
So the barman gave her one.
Yes, I was there and asked her for the hor d’oeuvres and that was just for starters.
Posted by: je suis Charlie Apr 16 2018, 06:34 PM
"Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary and one of Jeremy Corbyn's most senior allies, has illustrated a tweet about Syria with a computer generated fake image of an Israeli jet bombing the capital of Iran.
The photo, which was taken from an aviation blog and posted in 2012, shows an Israeli F-15 fighter over Tehran, with large explosions in the background.
It was created by Al Clark and posted by David Cenciotti on The Aviationist blog in March 2012, accompanied by a clear explanation of what the image shows.
He also included a note underneath the mocked-up photo marking it as a computer generated image which is "not a drawing, nor a rendering or a photo".
FAKE NEWS!!! FROM LABOUR, the party that gives you lies dressed in a layer of sanctimony.
Posted by: SirWilliam Apr 16 2018, 06:40 PM
The photo, which was taken from an aviation blog and posted in 2012, shows an Israeli F-15 fighter over Tehran, with large explosions in the background.
It was created by Al Clark and posted by David Cenciotti on The Aviationist blog in March 2012, accompanied by a clear explanation of what the image shows.
He also included a note underneath the mocked-up photo marking it as a computer generated image which is "not a drawing, nor a rendering or a photo".
FAKE NEWS!!! FROM LABOUR, the party that gives you lies dressed in a layer of sanctimony.
They only need to fool a few of the people all of the time to warrant their existence.
Posted by: Andy Capp Apr 16 2018, 08:30 PM
While I’m no fan of the MRTP, the RH D Abbott MP is one massive reason they are a better choice than a party with her in as home sec; however, the Windrush issue is obscene,
Posted by: je suis Charlie Apr 16 2018, 11:39 PM
**** right, should never have happened.
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