Sod Off Musk, We Don't Want Your Influence Here In The Uk

[Canary42]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0en9mn8mko       

 

[ToraToraTora]

06:41 Untitled hates anyone who has done ok.

[naomi24]

And TTT would deny motoring to the poorer in society.  Quite bizarre.

[ToraToraTora]

yes but I would provide a very good cheap public transport system.

[Khandro]

It's far better to have Elon Musk inside the UK tent urinating out of it, than the reverse.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah well I was gonna say that lobbying is there ( along with brown envelopes) whether we like it or not

[naomi24]

Fat lot of good that would do people living in remote rural areas.  Still, they along with all the second class citizens living in urban areas could always take their old fridges, sofas and other rubbish to the council tip by bus I suppose - and fork out to have everything else delivered rather than collect it.  You do talk rot at times, TTT.                                            

[ToraToraTora]

11:41 my version "public transport" includes subsidised vehicles for those with a need for them.

[Peter Pedant]

And TTT would deny motoring to the poorer in society.  Quite bizarre

o come on Naomi, be fair: normal for AB !

[ToraToraTora]

Personal private transport is wasteful and pernicious. 75% of it is wasted most of the time transporting 3 empty seats. If even unemployed people can afford something so dangerous then it must bee too cheap.

[naomi24]

TTT, I could be forgiven for thinking you've been reading too much Karl Marx.

[ToraToraTora]

well I'm not often accused of being a lefty!

[naomi24]

There's always a first time.

[ToraToraTora]

you are correct though, in most things I am probably right of centre but in transport I'm very left wing.

[THECORBYLOON]

Would having a car not increase the prospects of  unemployed folk finding employment?

[naomi24]

I don't understand how anyone who supports freedom, aspiration and enterprise can advocate a government-enforced two-tier society.  There's some seriously wonky thinking going on there.  

[davebro3]

I think we have lived through the "golden" age of the car and personal transport will become much more restrictive in terms of cost & regulation in the not too distant future.

[ToraToraTora]

12:13 I'm not advicating a two tier society. Get educated Work hard, get a decent job, afford a car. Be a parasite get nothing beyond basic subsistance.

[THECORBYLOON]

"Get educated Work hard, get a decent job, afford a car." What happens when someone who has done that, loses that job and is unemployed?

Is it suddenly wrong for that person to be unemployed and own a car?

[davebro3]

That sure sounds like 2 tier!🙄

Labour want us all to be the same whether you worked for it or not.

[naomi24]

TTT, //Get educated Work hard, get a decent job, afford a car//

 

Fine - if you have the ability.  Society would be in a sorry state without dustmen, cleaners and farm and factory workers though.  No government should have the power to decide who should have and who should have not - least of all based on earning power.  That is shameful.