Tuesday 17 September 2013

Tesco Extra Will Be Thrilled

Oh, good grief.
Cars should be banished from town centres, a Liberal Democrat minister has claimed. 
Transport Minister Norman Baker said drivers should be hit with big increases in parking charges so they are ‘disincentivised’ from parking near high street shops.
This is the Lib Dem solution to the long decline in town centre shopping, is it? Err, isn't the precise reason out-of-town shopping centres are so attractive that there is free parking and easy access?

So, while every other trade or consumer body advocates attracting high street customers with affordable or even free parking, this guy thinks the answer is to restrict choice and make it more difficult to get there. Instead, you should ride in and hang your bags on the bike handlebars, or carry your new TV home on the bus.

Where do the Lib Dems find such dogma-deluded buffoons?


13 comments:

Curmudgeon said...

Trouble is, this guy is a Transport Minister and not just some random eco-loon...

nisakiman said...

My thoughts exactly when I read the article.



Town centres started to die when some bright spark decided to paint double yellow lines all over the place "to ease traffic flow".



Then, of course, when traffic flow was 'eased', they needed to slow it down, so instead of removing the double yellows, they decided to build speed humps everywhere. (I sometimes wonder if Kwik-Fit didn't have some input in that decision.)


And now this shit-for-brains MP wants to make it impossible for anyone to do any meaningful shopping in the town centre to save the local shops?


DP, is this world ever going to be able to return to any semblance of sanity? I'm honestly having my doubts.

Henry Northcott said...

The same loons that brought in a 20 mph speed limit the first one since 1913 in islington They are completely mad.

Dick_Puddlecote said...

That had not escaped my attention. For someone in my industry, the thought of such a moron in a position of power is profoundly unsettling.

Curmudgeon said...

Worth a mention for this post I did on High Street decline a couple of years back.

MarkWadsworth said...

classic stuff, I posted this this morning, this is the sort of thing we love about the Lib Dems. And the 5p tax on plastic bags. You're not allowed to mock the afflicted any more, but we can make do with mocking the Lib Dems.

Mark said...

The Limp dums don't find these ubercunts, they find it!

Dick_Puddlecote said...

As was said on Twitter yesterday - Lib Dems: the party of the supermarkets.

Dick_Puddlecote said...

Ah, I see now. My mistake.

Dick_Puddlecote said...

Love the comment that Meadowhall should never have been built. Jeez.

JonathanBagley said...

There have recently been several cases of people being turned off buses because they are carrying "dangerous" objects - all common household purchases. For example, tins of paint.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-517181/Great-grandmother-thrown-bus-carrying-tin-paint.html
http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/harold_hill_pensioner_deemed_health_and_safety_hazard_and_thrown_off_bus_for_boarding_with_sealed_paint_pot_1_2375341
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2273598/Mum-banned-from-bus-for-carrying-paint-tins.html

Bucko TheMoose said...

Which brings us back to my stupid politicians comment yesterday :-)

Mark said...

My mistake too!


I had overlooked the huge mat that says "welcome" - to any narcissistic, infantilised, snide little nomark who's only purpose in life is to stop other people doing anything that isn't on the approved list.