I saw a lot of stuff about “globalists” - TBH I don’t even know what that means but apparently the ULEZ is globalist and they don’t like it.
I just see it as a hot-button issue that attracts nutters who seem to have a louder voice than anybody with a genuine grievance.
Is there still bollocks about ‘ten minute communities’? That one appeared last year and was a bit (well, a lot) of a headscratcher.
Fifteen minute cities, yes, unfortunately.
The notion that it’s better to not have to rely on a car, and being able to walk to the shops is good, has been around for a century. But it’s recently been weaponised that “they” will be watching you, you will be imprisoned where you live and, err, communism.
The narrative runs like; “you’ll be trapped”, “won’t be able to leave”, “ghetto living”, yada-yada.
You usually find these same civil liberties weirdos twerking for national service. Honestly wish they’d fuck off to Mars.
Not just trapped, but trapped cancer patients.
Won’t someone think of the children etc.
Tory MP, obvs.
ULEZ is minimal in comparison to the changes humans need to be taking if we don’t want to develop gills and live under water. It’s shameful the greater good is lost on MP’s, it’s kind of their job.
You’re from Islington where 67% of households don’t have access to a private car or van. You fucking dunce.
I know I’m droning on, but this kind of ill-thought-through nonsense grinds my gears.
Doesn’t mean she can’t be right, or indeed want to help draw attention to the wrong.
How the fuck can you be poor and live within London?
There are people in social housing in London who are pretty hard up. No chance they have a car though, if so!
Yeah, of course everyone in Tower Hamlets and Grenfell just rolling in money.
Makin’ it rain.
edit: sorry, replied to the wrong post
They need to move then, it was always that the working class, followed work. We need to re-introduce domestic migration.
I agree with your implicit point that London is shit if you’re poor - I’ve been there. But you can’t force people away from the communities that they know.
Sending the poor to compulsory work in the fields of Lincolnshire is not the country I want to live in.
I did. I do the type of work that a lot of people spewing opprobrium aren’t prepared or able to do.
And now some of us face a £12.50 a day extra cost to get to the jobs that no other cunt wants to do.
There’s a difference between finding work and expecting support. I don’t agree that people should stay in the same place just because of family or community.
That’s an extreme argument or point, I’ve always managed to follow work and move to different counties (or countries) and keep in touch with family.
Why can’t others do the same thing?
Interesting points. Our piss poor ‘government’ of the last 13 years has failed to invest in education, thus denying younger people the opportunities that you may have enjoyed.
And Brexit didn’t help.
Society is also so fucking divided that there just doesn’t seem to be a great deal of compassion.
Few seem to be able to take into account the position of those less well off.
A sort of toxic individualism.
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Can’t answer that as it’s just statements, but why can’t we as the working class follow work and migrate to where it is?
Simply because there is no ‘we’… That’s why.
What are you expecting cleaners, service workers, nurses, teachers and whatnot to do Chris?
