Posted on 09/13/2014 6:40:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Owning a car should be “outlawed” to force people on to public transport, a senior Labour MP has suggested.
Motorists who want to drive should instead be forced to join communal “car clubs” where the cars are shared by drivers and used only when needed.
Dr. Alan Whitehead, a Labour MP for Southampton Test and a member of the Energy and Climate Change select committee, said the increase in car ownership would lead to “something approaching a national traffic jam before 2040”.
He claimed that radical action would be needed to avoid national gridlock. …
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Because, after all, we're kings and can decree anything we bloody well like.
I agree wholeheartedly, which is why the first thing we need to do is make it a FELONY punishable by not less than 10 years in PRISON for a Public Servant or Public Employee to own ANY VEHICLE.
Just wait, this will be proposed here by out Stalinist transport secretary. And we don’t have Constitutional protections for vehicles against the eco nazis.
Let me guess: There’ll be a Muslim carve-out so they won’t have to comply? What do I win?
Is this PM a Liberal by any chance?
What are they so worried about? Aren’t these the same people cheering the coming dawn of the Driverless Car? I don’t expect a tidal wave of driverless, because people like me prefer making their own choices. However, elderly or disabled people sure could use such a vehicle, once the little bugs are worked out. Who knows, the Brits might not tolerate losing their rights to drive independently.
Maybe so but we have States who can tell the Feds to pound sand.
Labour Party. They vacillate between social-democratic and full-blown socialist.
Or to use any non-public transpiration!
With strong governors like Krispy Kreme and that stupid broad from Arizona? If we want the states to serve as a concrete bulwark against Obama’s tyranny, we need strong super-conservative governors. Being GOP is not enough.
They won't. They'll just be assigned a government-owned car for their exclusive use.
Speaking of Christie, he’s about to let New Jersey Transit blow more money on replacing all of its commuter rail single-deck cars with double-deck ones. Pork-barrel spending doesn’t help anything.
Krispy Kreme is the king of pork barrel!
Funny, this article has the Cream song “politician” running through my head.
CC
Unlike in the UK, we have the second amendment to deal with tyrants like him.
Of course he and his pals would be exempt....kinda like the Rats in Congress exempting themselves from OsamaObamaCare.
Yeah but you won’t see them on public transports. They’ll be exempt!
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