Fuck Cars

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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

"I love cars. Therefore we should mandate that EVERYONE drives!"

As someone who is forced to drive because I was unlucky enough to be born in bumfuck nowhere: fuck you. I hate always-busy traffic. If waiting in line is your idea of fun, go watch paint dry or something. I'm too busy to lengthen my commute.

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

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.

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

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

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."

It is endlessly frustrating to see the tories have any kind of traction with a narrative of opposing an oppressive or overreaching government direction. They ARE the government, they HAVE BEEN the government since 2010, and before the Blair years they were the government since 1979

This is so obvious and dumb populism it reads like satire. If this guy wouldn´t be in a position of power it would be funny ... !fuckcars@lemmy.world

Brits will do this to themselves and then in 10-20 years complain about how they have no friends or significant other because it's hard to meet people. All while continuing to vote for people like this.

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? 🤔

Fuck this dude and his plan and his shitty fat polluting murder machines

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.

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.

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.

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.