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Interesting commentary by Nick Tyrone today
I don’t understand what the Labour Party is doing. I don’t think many non-partisan people do either
https://nicktyrone.substack.com/p/i-dont-understand-what-the-labour
He seems to like Jenrick’s TFL stunt which is deeply ironic considering that Jenrick got caught claiming for driving and rail expenses for the same journey. It’s the old focus on poor people dodging a few pounds here and there and ignore the millionaires bending rules to dodge millions in tax.
Or can’t afford to change their habits in general e.g a care worker that has to travel to several locations in day at prescribed times vs their area manager.I thought that care-workers could apply to be exempt from the bus gate charges?
- Professional carers who work in homes of people who live within the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood area, you’ll need to apply below for this exemption.
- Residents of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood area who are on a low income, who meet the eligibility criteria and need to drive to work.
I think the issue is more that poor people can’t afford to be fined for driving through bus gates.If anyone could think of a way that one could avoid being fined for driving through bus gates…no, seems an insurmountable problem…
Slightly more seriously, I do think that there ought to be scope for licence points for regular offenders to prevent the very rich from simply ignoring the regulations and paying the fines, something one sees quite a lot in Belgravia, Kensington etc.
I doubt that the number of very rich drivers going through Barton Hill is going to be much of an issue.
Are the poor not allowed on buses?I think the issue is more that poor people can’t afford to be fined for driving through bus gates.
Is that a photo-bombing banksy there?Yes, but the Banksy was there first – that’s why there’s the fences around it to stop people trying to vandalise it (too late).
The original Banksy looked like this:
Then it got a plastic covering over it to protect it, which was then replaced by a wooden covering and then it was later updated (by Banksy?) with a masked man trying to pry off the covering:
This morning the Avonvale Rd bus gate signs had been sprayed painted to read ‘no poor people allowed’.That’s been picked up the BristolPost now:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/new-bus-gate-signs-barton-10224123
And someone’s vandalised the vandalism:
IFYKYK; I recommend catching the whole movie to place this scene in context.
https://youtu.be/vru2y9Q5Bs0?si=NaVWiF5AQE-Fgq1mDoesn’t look like Whitby to me
As you poke around on the map and zoom in, there are these little blue/white circles dotted about. Water pumps, it turns out. Kein Trinkwasser.Those look great – why can’t we have them along our roads here?
wtjs wrote:
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command Almost, but not quite, like a quotation from Animal Farm. Is it a famous quotation?So close and yet so far. It’s from 1984, also by Orwell.
slc wrote:
Bus gates to go live from 2nd June. Warning letters till 14 July, PCNs thereafter. https://news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releases/f3ce9e9d-7873–8727-15dde021a3cf/east-bristol-liveable-neighbourhood-bus-gates-to-go-live-in-june The gate road surfaces have also been painted a fetching red (the brick red colour on the one at Pilemarsh having been worn away in 6 months by all the drivers crossing the gate)Wait for it… wait for it…
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/liveable-neighbourhood-bus-gates-switched-soon/
The travel offers – already described in some quarters as “bribes” – include £100 of First Bus tickets that every household across the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood will receive through the post soon.For the first six weeks that the bus gates will be operational, drivers travelling through one of them will be sent a warning letter rather than being fined.
This ‘soft enforcement’ phase will come to an end in July and the bus gates will be fully operational from Monday July 14, with a penalty charge notice of up to £70 applicable after this time.
chrisonabike wrote:
Asking people to make costly voluntarily sacrifices is a great loyalty test AND demonstration of your power.The Trump administration seems to also test loyalty amongst people by making an obviously false statement and then watch to see who will attempt to produce justifications that just make no sense at all.
A good example of this was Musk’s Nazi salute – it quickly highlights those people who are willing to try to explain it away and those who refuse to deny the reality of what they saw.
Hirsute wrote:
I learnt another new word today about the US government LysenkoismLysenko provides an excellent lesson about how reality doesn’t care about political beliefs and how ignoring science/reality can end up starving millions.
Seeing as how Russia and China suffered from favouring ideology over reality, you would think that the U.S. people wouldn’t want to go through the same lesson. e.g. ignoring climate change due to it being inconvenient politically and ignoring vaccine eficacy due to idiots believing social media bollocks rather than history/science.
Seems like they have taken a political stance against the climate (which is as stupid as it sounds), but can’t ignore that solar and wind energy are not bankrupting us, but providing cheap energy without being tied to buying oil from dubious regimes.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/live-car-smashes-through-petrol-10208323
Strangely, the image they’ve included doesn’t look like Asda in Weston-super-Mare to me.
Edit: Seems like the picture was correct – I was suspicious about it being a link to a ram raid, but now there’s more details: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/ram-raiders-ditch-porsche-cayenne-10210586
I know it’s a different kettle of fish (or cargo)… but one for our occasional “boat crashes into building” (it’s for the pictures really)?OK… boat nearly crashes into building:
I saw that one and my first thought was “I hope they’ve checked for suspicious crates of grave-dirt…”
