So what youâre saying isâŠyesterday was a great day to exchange contracts??
Been giving some thought to this whole thing with my engineer living in a rural area head on.
Firstly, a lot if the infrastructure already exists I think. Overhead gantries with cameras already in place on motorways and some A roads. Also plenty of CCTV traffic monitoring type cameras about as well. Would this change behaviour or just force people onto smaller roads?
But does charging more actually help or change anything? In rural areas not so much because the public transport isnât there but also the local High st in many instances doesnât have the facilities they once did to support people. Thirdly, work. People travel distances now, because the local employment scene is again not there.
So reversing all that needs to happen as well as pushing people to use different forms of transport or less.
In other news government did a decent job if applying a band aid to the economic wound while kicking the can down the road for the next government. Setting a trap?
As I said in the original post, de facto per mile road charging effectively exists for anyone using road fuel. Itâs also quite discriminatory as (aside from some differences in mpg) it doesnât differentiate between a busy city centre and a remote rural location.
Road charging could remedy that by varying depending on road location and time of day. The question is whether it would be done that way or not? The way the UK political system is set up I could see it used to punish/reward people in constituencies that donât vote the right way.
I donât know whether they were trying to set a trap but if they were, I donât think it was one that was likely to pose much threat to Labour. If anything it might upset the remaining Conservative voters more.
Agreed, I dont think it features unless people really notice the hit as soon as Labour get in (if they do) and the opposition use it as a stick.
Strange times at the moment.
Of course, another reason it is less likely to work as a trap for Labour to fall into is that much of the bad news is still to work its way through the systemâŠ
And while all that is going on we have this
Another gem from this last week.
Itâs getting quite exasperating listing to government MPâs championing something one minute before coming out and stating that it was shite a few weeks down the road. Here we have Mark Eustace, ex UKIP, the man who shouted from the roof tops when the Australia trade deal was announced, championed Liz Truss for delivering it (I can t remember where he was on Truss for PM) and ignored the concerns from various sources including farmers has for some mysterious reason, decided that it was actually more than a bit shit.
Where is the accountability?
You mean turd.
Excellent selection of music.
Valid reason given for the choice 
This is getting worrying the government (or in my neo-Flobs lmanguage the cabbage patch) havenât uttered much for a few days now.
Ok a few words about âstabilityâ âmarketsâ, you know stuff they onât know anything about but reassures the fuckwit public. Other than that they have managed not to mention Fish or Fishy for that matter, Cheese, Pigs or pork pies, they havenât even muttered about Turkeys and eggs yet. Only @redfanman seems interested in eggs.
So Iâm getting worried if they donât speak the public will forget they exist and vote them in again in 2 years time.
Labour should take note.
The Brexiteer meltdown on Twitter about this is glorious.