Robbelcher

Plane and football geek. Hate the Tories, hate Brexit...although ex Tory voter tho...until Brexit happened....

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@jessphillips I am an comitted motorist and do feel under attack. I hate this govt but motoring and massive cost of net zero is the thing that puts me of Labour. Stop trying to push us out of our cars, we are happy in them.

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@VicDaBMX @SandraWeeden Its the fact that it is a blanket switch from 30 to 20. 20 is fine for schools etc but when you have wide urban streets its crazy. Cars struggle gear wise between 2nd and 3rd and thus use more fuel and pollute more.

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@cycleoptic @_XavierBrice_ No I want to go to my local shops, I just want the option to drive there rather than be restricted to walking,cycling and public transport. In small towns public transport is almost non existant anyway. I totally hate London, too many people.

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@JamesMelville that is a very well thought out item. I am all for enviromentalism but Netzero is too much about restrictions , high tax and control

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@vanitywelsh @_XavierBrice_ No they do very much so, just don't restrict access to those who drive. It may be 15 min walk away but it is also valid that I may perfer the 5 min drive.

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@YesterdaysBrit1 Thats a bit before my time, but reminds me of when service, not profit mattered, when there wasn't a Halal Butchers , vape shop, or fried chicken shop in sight. When we had a community, when people knew each other.

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@ryttoss @oldtrafffaith @stopclimbFL200 Unless you are building from scratch you would have to re-engineer whole towns. 15 min walk from me are a convinece store, a couple of take aways and 1 pub. Doctors/pharmacy 20min, supermarket 30min. Of course all then are within 10min by car, I simply do not have time.

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@ryttoss @oldtrafffaith @stopclimbFL200 Not at all, I simply want to keep what we have now where walking, cycling, driving and public transport exist together. 15min cities seek to restrict,or exclude, drivers.

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@chrisgreybrexit Do you not remember the Tories 'Mondeo man' been around for years. People, like me, live in suburbs/small town who 100% rely on cars and we have been penalised for years. Its not yet big enough for me to switch back to the Tories, Brexit burned that bridge.

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@marclmoore613 @_XavierBrice_ We already have that in small towns, mine is about 40k people, but keep that acessable to drivers too, no LTN's, no restrictions, plenty of parking. Public transport, cycling and driving can all live side by side, don't peanalise me because I choose to drive there.

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@peterwalker99 This really splits me politically, one hand hate what the tories are doing to the country, on the other hand am a comitted motorist and never use public transport. On 15min cities check out the WEF agenda, also contains much sunak is talking about.

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@Loriagne2 I also look back to 2012, the outstanding Olympics where we showed the world how amazing we can all be. Now we are becoming a 3rd world country, mind you in the 3rd world the army would probably be taking over by now, if only.

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@SandraWeeden Heard on the radio yesterday that actually local councils have the ability to put the limits back up to 30 where they feel they should be. So even more confusing for drivers!

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@Beany_1 I hate this gov't but am behind any policy that stops this absurd war on the motorist. I will never take public transport over the car, I don't cycle because I have a car. I use my car every day despite living on a bus route. Millions also have little acess to public transport.

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@YesterdaysBrit1 Probabably for the best that the tories go, still plenty I don't agree with Labour on like rejoin the SM and their love of netzero. Wont vote Tory again until they move towards the center again.

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@Loriagne2 I so wish it was about PPE procurement, but I will continue to dream on!

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@YesterdaysBrit1 Back when public transport was there to serve working people and take them where they wanted to go with affordable fares. Now just a cash cow for shareholders.

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@SandraWeeden Anybody remember driving in the 90's, or before. No cameras, no chance of getting caught at a bus gate or driving near a school where it is banned at certian times(fined in London for that), fuel was cheap and driving at 90 in the outside lane was normal.

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@SoVeryBritish No chains just lots of good quality, but not expensive, independant resturants serving varied dishes. There are loads of asian places but how many decient British places are there outside the big cities and pubs. The US has loads of 'mom and pop' and small chain places.