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Speak to any driver and ask them what the worst part of driving is and they will tell you it's other drivers.
And yet self-identified "drivers" will support right-wing policies that are designed to increase the amount of drivers on the road.
Not the smartest demographic.
I've known people who in the same breath would complain about how bad the traffic is in the city, then oppose to any alternative mode of transportation that would give more people other options so they would drive less.
I haven't talked to them in awhile but I wouldn't be surprised if they thought the 15-minute city concept is some plot against their ''''''''freedom'''''''' to drive.
You vil use ze bus, you vil ride ze bike, you vil replace ze hyperloop with ze subway so you vil not have to bother with ze car and you will be happy
Yeah, other drivers and cops are the worst parts of driving followed by everything that sucks about cars and car centric infrastructure
The strangest part of this is that they specifically stop councils from implementing 15 minute cities.
Legally mandated inconvenience.
How does that work? There’s already shops, dentists, etc in many residential neighbourhoods in the UK, no?
The Department for Transport added that it plans to stop councils implementing so-called "15-minute cities" amid fears they "aggressively restrict where people can drive".
15-minute cities are the idea that almost all healthcare, shopping, social and educational needs should be catered for a 15 minute walk or cycle ride away from any spot in a city.
Speaking to The Sun, Mr Sunak described such schemes as "hare-brained" - and claimed penalising drivers going about their daily lives "doesn't reflect the values of Britain".
The existing ones are allowed to stay until they need to build some more parking lots or widen roads I assume.
Sorry, this GP is too close to a convenience store, people might be able to walk from one to the other. Widen it up
stop councils implementing so-called "15-minute cities" amid fears they "aggressively restrict where people can drive".
We talk about it a lot, but my god are conservatives some of the most gullible fucking people on the planet. Politicians may just be 'pretending' but there are more than a few voters that legitimately believe this
Oi, ya got a loisense tah be travelin frum point A da point B like 'at?
Sidenote: Britain a nation of drivers? The place that invented the steam locomotive, the modern day intercity railway? If there's one thing that the UK has to be proud of in its past, it would be trains!
Yeah seriously, the Germans and French are so much more obsessed with their cars and unlike the UK still have a considerable car manufacturing business.
Right? I'm in the US, and they're convinced we live in some kind of Communist utopia where HRT is free for all, and everyone can just go live in a mansion and eat like kings on a welfare system we haven't had in 60 years.
What a load of backwards fucking bullshit. I'm sure he has stakes in the legalised extortion that is insurance as well as other things such as oil. Fucking prick. How about making trains better and more importantly affordable. How about funding more buses and adding more bus lanes to discourage people from driving. How about adding more cycle lanes and networks and taking advantage of the explosion in popularity of battery power personal transport.
Fuck cars and fuck this fucking removed.
I feel you, mate. I fully support either Britain have a revolution or for starters give Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (reunite Ireland) full independence so we can "detach" ourselves from these parasites in westminster.
They have tons, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Lotus, McLaren, Bentley
Except almost all of them are now owned by Western European, Indian, or Chinese car companies lmao
Aren't most of those fancier brands too? I can't imagine the average brit riding around in an Aston Martin.
Yeah they're all fancy brands. Most common to see are jags and maybe the occasional really old Bentley. Land rovers also
Those aren’t car brands, those are weird niche rich people products. Comparing Jaguar to Toyota a difference in scale becomes a difference in kind, they basically aren’t in the same industry.
Yeah, this is like comparing the market of Casio with Rolex. They have nothing in common, except that their products give the time.
Big? No. But they have like Jaguar and Land Rover. I think Mini is no longer British?
Jaguar land rover is a subsidiary of Tata Motors, an Indian multinational.
I honestly don't think the average person in britain gives enough of a fuck for this to be a vote winner.
Pensions, benefits, inheritance(tax), the workplace, and migration are the points brits give a shit about.
They're trying to court the Qanon nuts. The 15 minute city concept has been turned into: "they'll ban cars implement permanent lockdowns where you're not allowed to leave your 15 minute city ever again."
Pretty sure the fossil fuel industry is behind pushing that particular conspiracy.
Exactly right. It's the fossil fuel industry behind it, trying to pretend it's a grass-roots thing so people think the opposition is organic. Plenty of fools buying into it though.
Inheritance tax? Only about 5% of estates are affected by it! https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-statistics-commentary/inheritance-tax-statistics-commentary
They need to think long term. The oppression that drivers face can never end without first building enough stroads and parking lots to make London look like Houston, but this would mean taking on Big Bicycle & Bus.
the young are taken hostage by the boomers and scum like bbc aides them, e.g. not showing the pro EU protests in london last week. i feel sorry for all the kids of the uk.
Long-term decisions for a bright future
Free up bus lanes when not in use
"If the bus lane looks empty for a single second, why can't they let meeee take it?" Apparently long-term decisions involve giving in to the instincts of the most selfish people.
The green energy transition was like the one thing that TERF island was doing sort of okay at, so this move makes sense in light of that.
It is genuinely puzzling how European right-wingers are pivoting into car brain as their new major culture war.
It's not puzzling at all, people who drive in Europe are
a) more likely to be a suburbanite and/or wealthy
b) live rurally and believe that cars are the best way to get around because most likely it is in their underfunded area
Car culture has been a huge wedge issue in Europe for the last 40 years because it is the epitomy of shithead suburban entitlement.
Probably capitalists reacting against the push for greener alternatives
