Keir Starmer

Rascal said:
Thanks, why not make it free? What argument is there against it?

I would make all public transport free at the point of use, I could then sell my car as I rarely use it anyway and prefer public transport, it is just that the profit motive means that profit comes before services and my local bus service has been cut right back. Improve the service and I use it. Make it free and I use it every time.

You do not have a free car, but you are free to walk and cycle on the road. If there are less cars, the environment improves, the roads have less traffic, you need less parking, I am not anti car, they have a place of course, but I am pro public transport. If you took a million car journeys a week away from Manchester, think of the difference in air quality, noise, aesthetics. It would also increase productivity as roads would be less congested and vital road haulage would move quicker.
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I’ve done the bus driving lark fella I see people’s utter laziness in built up areas and empty gas guzzling buses in the countryside with only Agnes and Beryl on it 6 days a week because well they can because it costs them fuck all. It costs the council huge amounts but hey ho what do they care.

The fact is trains and buses can’t cover everywhere and when they do people,if they are free, will take the piss. Get healthy? I can’t tell you the amount of people I have taken 1 stop in my time. Students won’t bleeding walk from rusholme to uni and there sodding 18.

You going to pollute the enviroment, pay for diesel wages etc to get the one bloke from a village to work at 5am? Realistically free public transport won’t work. People jump on that free bus from Piccadilly station to get around town. They were free so people couldn’t be arsed with a 10 minute walk.

If you are old or disabled free travel is fine(I would consider restricting the amount of times it can be used though unless it was totally in the councils hands)
 
hilts said:
I’ve done the bus driving lark fella I see people’s utter laziness in built up areas and empty gas guzzling buses in the countryside with only Agnes and Beryl on it 6 days a week because well they can because it costs them fuck all. It costs the council huge amounts but hey ho what do they care.

The fact is trains and buses can’t cover everywhere and when they do people,if they are free, will take the piss. Get healthy? I can’t tell you the amount of people I have taken 1 stop in my time. Students won’t bleeding walk from rusholme to uni and there sodding 18.

You going to pollute the enviroment, pay for diesel wages etc to get the one bloke from a village to work at 5am? Realistically free public transport won’t work. People jump on that free bus from Piccadilly station to get around town. They were free so people couldn’t be arsed with a 10 minute walk.

If you are old or disabled free travel is fine(I would consider restricting the amount of times it can be used though unless it was totally in the councils hands)
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I never had you down as a bus driver, i expected you to work in a bank or something.

You make fair points that are difficult to argue against but it sounds like Beryl and Agnes pissed you off ;))
 
Rascal said:
I never had you down as a bus driver, i expected you to work in a bank or something.

You make fair points that are difficult to argue against but it sounds like Beryl and Agnes pissed you off ;))
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Nah not pissed off but people just do what they want to do. The society we want is difficult based on people's behaviour.
 
He’s absolutely nailing Boris and does most weeks.
It pisses me off that so many focus on his personality as a bit bland and Labour are divided on him as there is no way on planet Earth he would be anyway near as incompetent as that bumbling idiot opposite him.
 
I'm a voter who switches. The problem with Starmer and the labour party is that I still do not know what his policies are.

It is just criticising the current government < which is fine but it won't get my vote
 
BlueHammer85 said:
He’s absolutely nailing Boris and does most weeks.
It pisses me off that so many focus on his personality as a bit bland and Labour are divided on him as there is no way on planet Earth he would be anyway near as incompetent as that bumbling idiot opposite him.
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Only politico's are watching this.

BBC/Sky will only show the witty slogan attacking him later. As someone posted on another thread earlier Tories on LBC ringing in saying that the PM is amazing and don't give a fuck about everything else.
 
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