Sounds great. Until you recognise, it will just be a matter of time before a Tory gov sells them to private companies.

My first thought.

But u assume it dosent includw land or actual trains etc. Just laying the line.

Still seems cheap compared to the UK HS2.

While structural racism may (likely is but i cannot quote evidence atm) a part of the access to safe social housing.

That was not the goal of this report. Or the claim made at the end of it.

The report claims no evidence was found that such structural racism was responsible for the fire.

It is a bloody long strech to link rhe 2 and claim a report only into this fire was wrong.

Costs in genral have gone uk by way more then 700 a year.

For those renting Rent alone will be higher the. That. And housing benifit etc is means tested the same way this is now.

That said. As I have said elaewhere in the thread.

If this payment is the dif between life and death. Then this is clearly not the issue. But the level of means testing. And media history of negativity to claiming benifits is.

Nods. Sounds lime a logical approch.

May start that myself. Just difficult with my disability. To get to.most marches.

Agreed.

Unfortunatly politics is not that simple.

Simply giving money requires convincing voters. Or 5 years from now. Everyone will vote the arseholes again.

This is the main issue. Cobvincing voters to actually support a plan.

The left as a whole is far to devided. Even the slightedt disagreement seems to split tjhe vote. Where as stopping the left is all it takes to pull the right together.

Unfortunatly under fptp such splits are unelectable. And with such splits. Any other voting system aint gonna happen.

be honest with yourselves.

If £200 a year on fuel bills. Is the difference between them dying or living. The issue is not really that £200.

The issue is one of 2 very clear things.

1st to few pensioners entitled to pension benefits not claiming.

Something the government is trying to solve. But 50 years of media negativity towards benefits claimants has a lot to do with that. Many of these people grew old under constant negativity towards needing welfare.

2nd, the level pension benefits are paid out at is far too low.

While, it truly bothers me that labour has not insisted on resolving that issue at the same time as means testing a benefit that clearly goes to people who are not in need. £200 a year is not nearly enough to make a huge difference here. Given the numbers. 4 to 6k a year of extra income before these benefits are capped is more the number. Especially when you consider for those renting. Housing benefit is linked to the same means test. The last few years of rent rises will outweigh that 200 a year hugely.

My statements in no way indicated our mps should do what popular opinion wants.

It said not to compleatly ignore.

Your comparisons of devastates and representatives has no value in the quote you copied.

We both agree depict democracy is not the solution. But my statement is true.

Representative democracy is less democratic then direct. And “completely ignoring” poplar opinion is anti democratic. By definition.

My comment was opposing the whole idea of politicians using the term populist to belittle ideas they disagree with. Rather then challenging them on merit.

Sorry lots of typos. I’m legally blind and using a tablet atm. Its difficult.

This is an incredibly simplistic definition which describes delegates, not representatives.

Only if you ignore every thing else I said.

Also did not apply to London. Hence, TFL.

I remember when it changed. For about a decade we had huge increases in buses. In Oxfordshire, we had about 5 companies competing for routs between all the small villages.

By the end of the 90s. They all merged into one parent company. Still running buses under different company names. And the number of villages with 0 buses or one a week is absurd.

The basic result is the council has to pay more for bus routes that are unprofitable. But makes nothing from the profitable commuter routes.