If Sunak was acting in big corporate interests...
That's the point, he's a fish out of water.
He's used to good old straight forward corporate greed, but he's gone and got himself a job that requires him to try satisfy the ideological whims of some mad, old bastards. At the same time keeping the job is contingent on all the actual 'customers' thinking he's doing a good job (at least once every 5 years or so). He's kind of treated the party conference like an AGM to tell the membership what he thinks they want to hear, except of course the wider media are reporting the whole thing to the great unwashed, right before his next big interview...
It's almost as if political office isn't something finance and business types should really get into...
Welsh Conservatives have waded into the debate.
https://twitter.com/WelshConserv/status/1710574329509933536?t=ak6EoZtcgQSUYRLNaYN8wA&s=19
The less people driving cars the better it is for people driving cars. Whether it's because other people are WFH, on the bus, on the train or riding a bike, it doesn't matter. The fewer cars on the road the better. Back in lockdown when no one was driving, going anywhere in a car (or on a bike!) Was great. There was so little traffic anywhere. That's what it should be like.
The less people driving cars the better it is for people driving cars.
As well as being a cycling utopia, the Netherlands was voted the best country in the world for driving, several years in a row.
Most of this stuff is common sense once you start thinking about it, the benefits of promoting alternative means of travel are huge. It perplexes me that we continue to make things more difficult for ourselves and do it with so much enthusiasm.
It perplexes me that we continue to make things more difficult for ourselves and do it with so much enthusiasm.
Not limited to transport alone
A vote for the Welsh Conservatives is a vote to scrap blanket 20mph speed limits.
The party of Churchill and no mistake!
By the looks of things the Welsh tories are the party of blocking pavements with lorries. <br /><br />
Bit of a niche interest if you ask me, but they didn’t.
Most of this stuff is common sense once you start thinking about it, the benefits of promoting alternative means of travel are huge.
Except to car manufacturers, who have a powerful lobby.
If cars become a hobby, rather than a necessity then there’s not much profit in it.
Just stop oil would be far better off organising a mass car day. Everyone who normally walks, rides a bike or gets a bus to work takes their car if they have one. Pop a sticker in the back window displaying their usual transport mode. Car drivers would soon realise they rely on others to take alternate transport. Places like Oxford and London would be total carnage, no need at all for slow marching etc, and best of all the motorists might see that they are the problem and the others are the solution.
I drive every day to work as have no showers or bike storage. When I could ride I did 40 miles a day commute in all seasons 2-3 times a week. If I still worked in Oxford the traffic is now so bad, id be doing a mixed commute and doing it everyday- drive ten miles to outskirts of city and ride the rest.
Just stop oil would be far better off organising a mass car day. Everyone who normally walks, rides a bike or gets a bus to work takes their car if they have one
Genius!
If you want to drive fast book a track day or go and race.
I've often wondered what would happen if every town had a municipal racing circuit.
Municipal tracks? In England they're called 'ring-roads'.
The less people driving cars the better it is for people driving cars. Whether it’s because other people are WFH, on the bus, on the train or riding a bike, it doesn’t matter. The fewer cars on the road the better.
Yes, the change in my car commute in school holidays is vastly improved. I dont even think theres much in the way of queuing or jams, its just more pleasant. 10-15% mpg improvement too. If everyone who said that they don't like driving would just not do it, the country would be a better and happier place for all.
If cars become a hobby, rather than a necessity then there’s not much profit in it
Have you not seen the equestrian industry?
I’ve often wondered what would happen if every town had a municipal racing circuit.
Scrap yards, Audi and BMW dealerships and hospitals would be full to bursting, as every driving god who likes to make progress realises the god they've been channeling all these years is Ganesh rather than Hamilton.