The most oppressed people on Earth: motorists 😂

Next step: “we are a nation of smokers and millions of us smoke daily. We are making the life of these people easier. Stop to the No Smoking areas. If a pregnant woman is present she can go eff herself. Stop to taxes on tobacco.

Luckily, these are just the last desperate acts of an unelected Prime Minister, who only got the job because the last one crashed the economy inside a month (who only got the job because the last one was Boris Johnson). He knows that the party will be condemned to irrelevance next year and is anxious to find anything that could possibly resonate with enough voters

Ironically Rishi Sunak famously doesn't really drive, and once had to borrow someone else's car for a publicity stunt where he inadvertently demonstrated that he doesn't even know how to fill one up with petrol. Sadly he doesn't drive because hes a gazillionaire, not because he uses public transport

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.

I'm just taking a moment to remember the massive smear campaign against Corbyn, including the centrists in Labour working to undermine him during their election, and how ultimately it led to this dumbass taking the reins instead.

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Best driving experience in the world? The Netherlands, because when you shift a significant number of people off the roads into alternative transport the remaining drivers have less traffic and higher average speeds than an over-reliance on cars.

Risak is just committing the same mistake Robert Moses made 80 - 50 years ago, building more roads to "solve" traffic but it just induced more car traffic - - and then repeat again and again.

Poor motorists having only like 99% of infrastructure reserved for them.

So victimised right now.

Let's take away railway sleepers so they can drive on the tracks.

This reads like satire

#motoristlivesmatter

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.

Freedom to travel except if you're taking the train, then you can get fucked with delays, overcrowded trains and expensive fairs. Glad to be living on this hell rock

Ah yes, the freedom to be stuck in traffic jams. Now where have I heard that before...

LTN is low traffic neighborhood.

Anyone else notice the pluses don't actually do anything?

Use bus lane when it's not rush hour? So it does nothing.

Parking? Doesn't solve traffic.

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

My god what a trainwreck. I'm so sorry folks

Ahh yes, the same PM who has a list of 5 directly contradictory statements as his so-called ‘plan’, that one right?

As someone who drives a car in the UK, I'd like to point out that this is a load of old bollocks designed to drum up votes from Boomers ahead of what's looking to be an absolute embarrassment of an election for the Tories in the next year or so.

Almost none of these promises have any actual substance to them, and are largely just meaningless slogans designed to rile up the Boomers* who have spent their lives being taught that public transport and bikes are what poor lefties do.

If Labour have been quiet on these issues, it's because they know that their best election strategy at this point is to just let the Tories flap on, doling out enough rope with which to hang themselves.

*not all Boomers, obviously, but they really are the majority of Tory voters

I see, taking notes from their overweight neighbors across the pond, they've chosen the way of teh hambruger

Typical tory, their patron saint Thatcher said as much:

"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure."

This is so obvious and dumb populism it reminds me of Trump because just like most of Trumps statements, it reads like bad satire. If this guy wouldn´t be in a position of power it would be quite funny to read ... !fuckcars@lemmy.world

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? 🤔

There’s a small YouTube channel I watch of a this dude longboard around London. It’s amazing how pedestrian and skate friendly it is. They’d be doing some proper long term damage if this kind of thinking gets through. With Brexit the Brits might be in for a decade more of rolling back civilisation.

Cursed island

As someone forced to drive for their commute, who has frequently been made late by cyclists forcing emergency stopz, and who hates the way things are currently going on the roads, this isn't going to win my vote.

The issue is that I'm forced to drive due to public transport being too expensive, unreliable, and, let me be frank, unsafe in some areas if you're transporting a laptop after dark. Ever tried to move a box of teaching supplies around on a bike, ye god's never again!

I don't want freed up bus lanes, I want more buses with a guard on then after dark. The roadworks fines, I think everyone wants that sorted out because it hits buses really hard. As for parking - definitely - better parking for bikes outside local shops, and safe storage for people travelling on public transport with luggage or heavy loads.

Less popular but definitely needed - insurance for bike users and mandatory licenses (sorry but some folks out there are accidents waiting to happen on a bike).

There's absolutely zero point in discussing this.

It's pure ~~whistleblowing~~ dogwhistle and deflection politics. And that's it.

Edit: Mixed up whistling. Tired and distracted.

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.

This kind of stance is common enough with Canadian conservatives. They prattle on about the "war on cars", all bleary eyed about people "just need to get to work" whenever public transit, climate change, parking or biking comes up.

God cursed bri'ins with horrible teeth as punishment for their many sins.

Fucking clown, if you're serious about your civilization you prepare it to move hundreds of millions efficiently on a daily basis. Cars don't provide that.

As an expat - fuck this clowncar. Fuck this litany of clueless prime ministers that so desperately wants to be a mini USA, with no lessons learned.