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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 359 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The most oppressed people on Earth: motorists πŸ˜‚

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice lol

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's like they just let Jeremy Clarkson write this pamphlet.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

finding this clip of frankie boyle shitting on clarkson made my life qualitatively better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qrCrxixBKY

[–] scubbo@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My friend, that's positively milquetoast in comparison to Stewart Lee.

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[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 184 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next step: β€œwe 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.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

β€œWe are a civilization of fossil fuel users, billions of us use electricity generated from fossil energy sources daily. We are…”

Unfortunately, this isn't far from the actual rhetoric they use.

[–] lennier@kbin.social 141 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 125 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 110 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 108 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Letting people travel "how they want" he says while cancelling new train lines for those who wants to use that. The blokes a disengenuious wanker who we can't be rid of quick enough.

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[–] Sean@liberal.city 97 points 1 year ago (7 children)

@mondoman712
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.

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[–] ChewyAC@reddthat.com 83 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Forcing everyone to own a car due to lack of public transport/safe cycling infrastructure fucks over motorists as well. Imagine the traffic in London if suddenly everyone that commutes by train was forced to drive in.

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[–] prtm@lemm.ee 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Ulijin@feddit.uk 39 points 1 year ago

What mistakes? The ultra rich have a great life in the US. He's just serving his own interests. But remember you're poor because of immigrants! /s

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 77 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

This reads like satire

#motoristlivesmatter

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"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.

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[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're free to travel how you like as long as you keep the fuck out of my way and breathe in my car farts

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 33 points 1 year ago

The beauty of all of this to the Tories is that it gives them something to crow about, without actually having to do any work.

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[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 52 points 1 year ago

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

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 48 points 1 year ago (20 children)

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

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[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago

Cursed island

[–] artaxadepressedhorse@lemmyngs.social 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 37 points 1 year ago

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."

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 wouldnΒ΄t be in a position of power it would be quite funny to read ... !fuckcars@lemmy.world

[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] showmustgo@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

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

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago

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? πŸ€”

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] fluke@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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