Historically governments have supported using transport as a means to put profits into share holders pockets as a priority instead of its primary objective of moving people. You cant operate public services effectively and privately as has been proved over the last two decades. You need to put people into transport that is safe clean effective comfortable and which get people to where they want to be and when they want to be there. All of these attributes are missing from the system we are left with now. You put the price up and people head for the roads in cars. when they drop the fares to make the system attractive to users they complain that the share holders wont stand for it. We need to develop a system that works because the people use it. Make the alternatives to cars and lorries cheaper is the answer not making cars and lorries more expensive.
Now ,look at the French way , sod the disruption lets blockade the harbours and ports and road links stop all the summer traffic mayhem to the masses....
You dont get peaceful change when you are dealing with ministers and civil servants who are in their comfort zones passing the buck and reaping the financial gains they can find for themselves and not making political waves. When did we ever have a politician that would stand up and be counted and actually do something effective... nooooo way to radical...
Going back to the original thread....... Fuel costs will never stabilise while certain governments reap money in by keeping the world unstable.
When this country finally gets a government that thinks for its self things may improve but I wont be holding my breath. The best fuel protest would be to all turn up at the petrol station and fill up so the pumps run out. That way you get your fuel at todays prices and not next weeks at 5p per litre more. When the roads are jammed and the politicians are inconvenienced maybe they will get off thier fat a...ses and do something.
Protest ? in this country? ha ha ha dont make me laugh most people dont even know the folks who live on the same street any more, have no local shops or businesses, have become insular unsociable and pretty much uncaring burdened by litigation threats and stupid politically correct garbage and are no longer free to say who they hate and why they hate them.
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