Poll: which party are you going to vote in up coming elections?
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I always feel political compass gives an inaccurate view of my position. If it gave a more accurate weighting to certain questions...well, we would be here all day.
Of course, but what it does do is make people realise that it is a more complex issue than simply Left and Right!
Take the current issue
Pro UKIP= (Perhaps) A fundamental belief that a Country/Nation is essentially a tribal/territory/homeland thing. IE A tribe with its tribal home land.
Anti-UKIP = (Perhaps) A fundamental belief that a country/nation is essentially a corporate entity where tribal/ethnic identities are of no importance and only economic performance has any significance.
Given That choice, I am UKIP all the way!
I thought we would see a decent effort from the msn [that includes the DM]to **** off UKIP before polling day, oh how desperate they are, must be scared stiff the puppet masters.
So essentially, what we are proposing is for all commuters and transit in London to take 1.5 hours to drive though it instead of 1 hour, as we lower the speed of traffic by a third, essentially to make allowance for a random pedestrian couldn't wait 30 more seconds for green light?
That particular scenario in 1973 introduced savings of only 1% of fuel. Today my car would save closer to 4mpg. At a cost of stretching every hour driven on motorway by 13 minutes.
What you are basically proposing is for my current 90 minute commute across 42 miles through Kent to London in future under Green Party to take 140 minutes, robbing me of 4h40m every day for each 8 hours of work. Well, that's definitely worth a vote.
Public transport is not attractive because of price - Southeastern trains want £47.60 for return ticket on HS1 plus LU before 9am and £34.50 after 9am. I can drive Hummer with handbrake on into congestion charge zone and park there for entire day and still spend less than on public transport.
Also, anyone earning less that 16k a year in my town would be literally losing money by going to work in London after forking out for daily ticket. It's just one of the reasons why any town in Kent and Essex further than Darford Crossing is full of people on dole. There is just no point for many of them to go and work in capital, despite being 30-40 minutes away, because to cover transit costs while losing housing benefit in the process, they would have to jump to something like 35k per annum before they would see any rise in standard of living after going to work and sacrificing 10 hours of their life a day to earn similar disposable income.
Another thing is - public transport is one of those "within M25" things. Otherwise it's not really available to most of the country. That's why 72% of the nation commutes by car. Not because they don't enjoy reading with ipod on, but because it's either not there or the cost is prohibitive.
Maybe we should establish Motoring Party?
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Also buses pump out far more CO2 than your average car. There is, of course, a point where the number of passengers is high enough that is becomes net cleaner (if one assumes they'd all otherwise be driving on their own in separate cars).
However, where I live there are two routes which are always full but far more that are practically empty driving round for most of the day (especially as the bus companies have to provide services to small villages).
Furthermore, the cleaner bus algorithm also forgets a couple of things. Many of those passengers are travelling together, so would be sharing cars and many of the people on the bus don't have driving licences so couldn't be driving anyway.
However, where I live there are two routes which are always full but far more that are practically empty driving round for most of the day (especially as the bus companies have to provide services to small villages).
Furthermore, the cleaner bus algorithm also forgets a couple of things. Many of those passengers are travelling together, so would be sharing cars and many of the people on the bus don't have driving licences so couldn't be driving anyway.
So essentially, what we are proposing is for all commuters and transit in London to take 1.5 hours to drive though it instead of 1 hour, as we lower the speed of traffic by a third, essentially to make allowance for a random pedestrian couldn't wait 30 more seconds for green light?
That particular scenario in 1973 introduced savings of only 1% of fuel. Today my car would save closer to 4mpg. At a cost of stretching every hour driven on motorway by 13 minutes.
What you are basically proposing is for my current 90 minute commute across 42 miles through Kent to London in future under Green Party to take 140 minutes, robbing me of 4h40m every day for each 8 hours of work. Well, that's definitely worth a vote.
Public transport is not attractive because of price - Southeastern trains want £47.60 for return ticket on HS1 plus LU before 9am and £34.50 after 9am. I can drive Hummer with handbrake on into congestion charge zone and park there for entire day and still spend less than on public transport.
Also, anyone earning less that 16k a year in my town would be literally losing money by going to work in London after forking out for daily ticket. It's just one of the reasons why any town in Kent and Essex further than Darford Crossing is full of people on dole. There is just no point for many of them to go and work in capital, despite being 30-40 minutes away, because to cover transit costs while losing housing benefit in the process, they would have to jump to something like 35k per annum before they would see any rise in standard of living after going to work and sacrificing 10 hours of their life a day to earn similar disposable income.
Another thing is - public transport is one of those "within M25" things. Otherwise it's not really available to most of the country. That's why 72% of the nation commutes by car. Not because they don't enjoy reading with ipod on, but because it's either not there or the cost is prohibitive.
Maybe we should establish Motoring Party?
No, What the Green Party are suggesting is that you shouldn't be com uniting in a car that distance every day, which frankly, is quote a sensible goal.
The current issues with public transport is precisely why it requires improved funding and incentives.
Americans cope just fine with a 55mph on most main roads with greater distances.
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Met Sanya-Jeet once or twice and I think she has made a good decision! She's bang on the money with everything she's said.
I think the recent advertisement campaigns and some of the people they've got standing for election is an utter disgrace.
You can also have cleaner buses running off natural gas. There are also entirely electric buses around.
Regardless of pollution improved public transport is paramount in coping with the population of large cities in the future. It is a very outdated idea having everyone in ideally drive around in their own cars.
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3 hours driving commute a day and you want to complain about it being longer? Three hours is already insane. Why the hell do you live so far away from your place of work, just to have a patch of green lawn in sunny kent? Madness.
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As you can get cars fueled by that too so kind of moot. Besides, currently, electric vehicles aren't any cleaner than petrol ones, all you've done is moved the pollution from the exhaust pipe back to the [almost certainly coal-powered] power station.
To be fair he is losing 3 hours of his life a day for that privilege. Personally, I'd hate it if I had to move further than my 5 minute walk to work as I value my free time too much but horses for courses I guess.
Of course I hate it. But you can't keep selling your house each time you change jobs or your job moves. It's just not sustainable or financially possible. Plus you know - it's a job. You will have many of those in your life time. You don't sell your family home to accommodate your job. I mean 10 years ago I was commuting 40 minutes through empty streets of London at night. 7 years ago I was taking 45 minute trains to Victoria and crossing the street. 5 years ago I was working from home. Now I seat 3 hours in my car. 3 hours on a good day. Day of tube strike, I spent almost 5 hours behind the wheel. Makes you truly appreciate unionists and commies. But then again, I work with Londoners who have to use buses or cycle within London, from West London to places like Sydenham and Balham. I always leave the office last and lock up and sometimes I'm home earlier than them...
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Which is resolved by increasing production of renewable energy, which is of course part of the green parties policy.
Having more people moved by public transport reduces congestion, reducing commuting times and increases efficiency.
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Apparently this means I'm an absolute hero. Who knew!
Hence why I want out of Europe
People who spend a long time on the internet trend towards libertarians I find.
I'm not going to even embed it it's that bad
I feel so dirty doing this for you, I'm going for a shower.....
And you think that UKIP will increase spending on the disabled? They bill themselves as a liberation party - small government, low government spending.
You are worried about people getting off their back sides and working? Mind you, I guess when we have eradicated all the immigrant workforce I guess they will be forced to work anyway because who is going to clean the toilets or tend the local petrol station?!
You are worried about people getting off their back sides and working? Mind you, I guess when we have eradicated all the immigrant workforce I guess they will be forced to work anyway because who is going to clean the toilets or tend the local petrol station?!
Who do you think done it before?
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