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The Liberalz are trying to change the Constitution!!!

The whole Constitution need to be thrown out and revised, it still allow slavery even.

We should re-invade.

Just not with the Beatles or the Gallagher brothers this time.

I had that same conversation, almost verbatim, with two American friends - one is a highschool security guard and has a concealed carry license "because the kids have guns", and the other is a capitol hill security officer

They could not comprehend that we Brits defend ourselves using good ol' fashioned punching and yelling "He's not worth it"

Ever wondered why there’s so many prisons?

Old habits and all.

That what I was referring too, it's scarily profitable off the back of convict.

They could not comprehend that we Brits defend ourselves using good ol' fashioned punching and yelling "He's not worth it"

And wheelie bins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mzPj_IaMzY

What road is that? Looks very familiar

I think that was Shardeloes rd, Brockley

Looks like you're right: https://brockleycentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/serious-incident-on-shardeloes-road.html

As Boswell shudders, WFH reconfigures London. I had a quick trip two weeks ago and couldn't believe how quiet everything seemed.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/tfl-financial-crisis-tube-line-closed-bankruptcy-b968230.html

National Rail has had a massive bailout. TfL is being threatened for political reasons.

Simple solution - triple the price of driving in London.

Most of London is currently effectively free. Triple that doesn't raise much revenue.

I'm all for road pricing but TfL needs cash on December 10th, not in two or three years time.

Fair point. Charge £30 a day minimum for driving anywhere in London immediately.

It's a long-running political campaign. As the Tories knew that the next Mayor of London would be Labour, they introduced the change in TfL's financing--withdrawing the vast amount of government subsidy just in time, totally coincidentally, for the new Mayor to take office. The idea that public transport in London should be almost entirely revenue-funded is, of course, utterly bonkers, but as it's mainly designed to cause difficulty for Sadiq Khan and doesn't take into consideration what is actually needed, they don't care. Boris Johnson got generous government bail-outs even though under his neglect TfL was badly-run. Labour has long won elections in London on the back of public transport, e.g. Livingstone, and if you can damage that, so goes the theory, you'll damage Labour's electoral chances in London.

I mean, I think there are big problems with TfL, but this is not the way to address them.

That would need infrastructure like cameras, that would cost a lot and people will learn the camera free routes for their local journeys.

Also, political suicide in the outer boroughs where buses aren’t that great.

You are right. Just ban all cars. Everyone can cycle where they need to.

Then charge cyclists for using the roads. #unpopularsuggestion

The idea that public transport in London should be almost entirely revenue-funded is, of course, utterly bonkers

It's worse than that. Income from public transport fares is also used to pay for TfL road maintenance (eg red routes).

That would need infrastructure like cameras, that would cost a lot and people will learn the camera free routes for their local journeys.

Which is one reason why a charge for entering London has been raised as there is a ring of LEZ cameras more or less at the London boundary.

There are cameras within the boundary as well.

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I’m all for charging for that bit, but London is a bit bigger than that.

That's the ULEZ, I was talking about the LEZ. There aren't many cameras between the ULEZ and LEZ boundaries but there is (probably) more area outside the ULEZ than in.

I'd like a situation where all motor vehicles pay for every journey. That probably requires a black box.

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Yes, true, I should have mentioned that.