Here’s the best part… the bus companies in the UK are being offered technology on their vehicles to scan the roads they are driving on (which have no-parking zones programmed into the routing by GPS fields) and automatically take photographs of the vehicles. information is then transmitted to their servers with location and time-stamps and the vehicles is sent a fine automatically, without any type of notice on the vehicle. it’s then on the vehicle owner to dispute on their own time.
the money is split between the bus companies, and the company that makes/maintains the system.
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In Canada, you cannot link or share any news on social media. There’s a national ban, Facebook will remove any links to news agencies. So if the government does something nefarious, and they control the media coverage then how are people going to find out about it? on the government-controlled CBC? nobody watches the news anymore…
Accusing Starmer of flip flopping is not a new tactic by the Tories, they’ve been doing it for a while.
Personally, i think in this situation it is more understandable than perservering with policies that knowingly dont work.
Also, i think as an attack line it can be countered by the Keynes response to a similar attack “when the facts change, i change my mind, what do you do sir?”)
On the contrary, it’s the exact opposite here. They’re planning to water it down not because it doesn’t work, or isn’t feasible, but because they’re afraid of the Tory attack line. I believe it’s been acknowledged by several economists that it would be a good thing overall, and it’s noted that they were even considering positioning it as a deficit-reducing policy since it’s expected to boost productivity and lower energy costs.
The not working was a reference to Tory policies, such as the Rwanda stuff. Slimming down the energy commitment has been expected for a while because of the deterioration of the government finances.
