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"We are a nation of drivers", says Rishi Sunak
(hexbear.net)
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!
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I want to live in the world chuds think we live in.
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.
I live in the world chuds dream of living in.
Saudi Arabia, but christian?
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 cunt.
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So depressing lol. Does Britain even have big car manufacturers?
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.
Mini is fully owned by BMW
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.
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.
Doing the parody of themselves. Straight from a shitpost. Ultimate clowns
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.
Car brained moment
They're really going to make this their thing now huh
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
Weird to see island nations most vulnernable to climate change dig their own graves even deeper. The worst part is that they'll be begging for aid and will most likely get it while continuing to do shit like this.
Mr Sunak, shut the fuck up
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
To all reading: don't start your car up tonight ... check beneath it first, just in case...
At this point I'm expecting Jeremy Clarkson to wind up as transport minister within the next few years
Nah even he's smart enough not to get into that shit show
Imagine that this is written in, like, a Birmingham accent or something, I'm too ignorant of regional British accents to do a convincing patter
Yeah, sure, we gave up our healthcare system, once considered one of the best models of socialized medicine ever put into practice, leaving us permanently immiserated and indebted to private medicine, but they did build this really nice parking lot. It's got a portaloo the construction crew forgot to take and everything.
You sold me on portaloo. Here in the States we just shit behind the car after we park.
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