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?
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Trouble is, this guy is a Transport Minister and not just some random eco-loon...
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.
The same loons that brought in a 20 mph speed limit the first one since 1913 in islington They are completely mad.
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.
Worth a mention for this post I did on High Street decline a couple of years back.
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.
The Limp dums don't find these ubercunts, they find it!
As was said on Twitter yesterday - Lib Dems: the party of the supermarkets.
Ah, I see now. My mistake.
Love the comment that Meadowhall should never have been built. Jeez.
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
Which brings us back to my stupid politicians comment yesterday :-)
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.
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