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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Yeah . . . the scenario of the titular politician being in the “big black car” with the lower classes presumably on foot is being replayed here.
Oh, yeah. /s
That ‘special relationship’ with England that was mentioned in a prior posting the other day?
Flush it.
I’m sure Obama would agree wholeheartedly.
Owning a car in America = freedom.
Freedom of movement, choice, residence, employment.
Liberals just hate that.
I did the public transport thing in college. For two weeks. I’ve been on a public bus exactly zero times since then. It was what they call a learning experience. I learned it was infinitely better to pay for one’s own car. If I want to feel like I’m riding the public bus, I’ll buy a urine or B.O. scented air freshener.
Actually, liberal politicians do everything to scale back “public” transportation at the same time as proposing measures to curtail “gridlock”.
Don’t forget that the interstate highway system was a public works project and not built by the private sector.
This UK Labour Party moron should have an IQ test. Ban autos...yes... why not ban trains, airplanes and ships, too.
Labour really wrecked the UK after WWII. They should not exist as a party.
There’s a potential pandemic that is being spread by, among other things, the seats of taxicabs. Yes, lets ban cars so everyone is forced to use buses and taxis!
“Liberty? Pfffttt!”
Fixed.
Labour Party. They vacillate between social-democratic and full-blown socialist.
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Just like the Democrat Party in the US!
So this MP in ENG says there will be gridlock on the roads by 2040... Does he not realize that many car owners now driving will be dead and gone by then? What an idiot!
Not to worry. Peak oil will strike by then so there won’t be enough fuel for the little people to run their cars. And if that doesn’t work, just raise their taxes so they can’t afford cars.
A haircut just above the shoulders.
Marxist idiots at it again and the UK will submit
Maybe traffic wouldn’t be so bad there if the trucks stayed out of the left lane.
> Owning a car should be “outlawed” to force people on to public transport, a senior Labour MP has suggested.
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