UKIP's transport policy: get benefit claimants and cyclists off the road

[BrumJim]

https://twitter.com/stevenjbrookes/status/556448444207071233/photo/1

No further comment.

 

[GhostDancer]

Why let them fill up our buses? Make them walk, or cycle.... oh er, no.

 

[screenman]

I just heard this on the radio, sorry about the Telegraph link.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...g-to-ease-congestion-Ukip-candidate-says.html

 

[compo]

Apart from those disabled people who exchange their DLA for a car, I often wonder how people on out of work benefits can afford to run a car. We see it round here, people who haven't worked for years driving around in nice cars. It is not only the cost of the car but the running costs of tax, insurance, and petrol. What they spend their benefit money on is obviously their business, but maybe there is an argument to look more closely at their income and expenditure.

 

[clarion]

Most people on benefits have a job. This includes delivery drivers and care workers, who need to use their own transport for work.

UKIP are the party of the stupid, the gullible, the evil and the ignorant.

 

[jonesy]

Quite. It is easy to laugh at them, as a bunch of fruitcakes and idiots, but these people could end up with real influence over government policy. They are actually dangerous.

 

[screenman]

He must have a very small universe, we do not have pavement between the villages out here.

 

[Turbo Rider]

Apart from those disabled people who exchange their DLA for a car, I often wonder how people on out of work benefits can afford to run a car.

I think you might have answered your own question.

 

[Bromptonaut]

Apart from those disabled people who exchange their DLA for a car, I often wonder how people on out of work benefits can afford to run a car.

The answer to whether a person on benefits can afford a car is surely 'it depends'. Given the infrequent and expensive bus service round here I'd expect people to hang on to one as long as they possibly could. Ignore depreciation, assume a car with minimal road tax (even our 1.6 Berlingo is less than £2/week) and cheap insurance paid by instalments then keeping one going for a few months at least shouldn't be impossible.

What else are they supposed to use for (a) job hunting and (b) accessing agency work that starts 'tomorrow'?

 

[anotherDave]

Trouble is the UKIPs don't have much coherent policy on anything

You can read UKIP's policies on their website.

http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people

http://www.ukip.org/speeches_from_annual_conference

There is no mention of cycling. Their stated transport policies are:

"Transport

– We will scrap HS2.

– UKIP opposes tolls on public roads and will let existing contracts for running toll roads expire.

– UKIP will maintain pensioner bus passes.

– UKIP will require foreign vehicles to purchase a Britdisc, before entry to the UK, in order to contribute to the upkeep of UK roads and any lost fuel duty.

– UKIP will ensure that speed cameras are used as a deterrent and not as a revenue raiser for local authorities."

 

[Flying Dodo]

You can read UKIP's policies on their website.

http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people

http://www.ukip.org/speeches_from_annual_conference

There is no mention of cycling. Their stated transport policies are:

"Transport

– We will scrap HS2.

– UKIP opposes tolls on public roads and will let existing contracts for running toll roads expire.

– UKIP will maintain pensioner bus passes.

– UKIP will require foreign vehicles to purchase a Britdisc, before entry to the UK, in order to contribute to the upkeep of UK roads and any lost fuel duty.

– UKIP will ensure that speed cameras are used as a deterrent and not as a revenue raiser for local authorities."

A bit thin on detail, especially so close to a General Election. Probably thought up on a back of a fag packet.

 

[Hitchington]

Quite. It is easy to laugh at them, as a bunch of fruitcakes and idiots, but these people could end up with real influence over government policy. They are actually dangerous.

I quite agree, but if we don't laugh at them what can we do?

 

[Turbo Rider]

I quite agree, but if we don't laugh at them what can we do?

Vote for AN Other. Quite depressing though, when the only reason to vote is to stop that lot getting in, but duty calls...

 

[Hitchington]

You can read UKIP's policies on their website.

http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people

http://www.ukip.org/speeches_from_annual_conference

There is no mention of cycling. Their stated transport policies are:

"Transport

– We will scrap HS2.

– UKIP opposes tolls on public roads and will let existing contracts for running toll roads expire.

– UKIP will maintain pensioner bus passes.

– UKIP will require foreign vehicles to purchase a Britdisc, before entry to the UK, in order to contribute to the upkeep of UK roads and any lost fuel duty.

– UKIP will ensure that speed cameras are used as a deterrent and not as a revenue raiser for local authorities."

I'd rather not click on the UKIPs website link thanks. It would be rather embarrassing if anyone looked at my browser history. Hardcore supersex porn, fine. But UKIP.org. No way.

 

[andyfraser]

I'd rather not click on the UKIPs website link thanks. It would be rather embarrassing if anyone looked at my browser history. Hardcore supersex porn, fine. But UKIP.org. No way.

That's what incognito/private mode is for.