Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am

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• Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s like their trying to please the right-wing and the reform idiots who will always hate them anyway. Totally tone deaf.

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Labour is trying to please their rich political donors, who tend to be right wing and will always love them, so long as Labour do their donor’s bidding.

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    • Redfox8@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Welcome to politics 101!

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They are not Labour. Right now what we have are just red Tories and blue Tories.

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  • Eiren@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think Sturmer’s party is actually further right than the Tories ever were. We have the centre-right party (Tories), the genocidal far-right party (Labour), and the maniacal Hitler worshippers (Reform).

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• meejle@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Get back to work, Lazy Disabled People! >:(

  *Off-peak times only, terms apply

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  • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the point is, if you’re working you don’t need free bus travel. If you’re on the bus at that time of the morning then you’re probably working (or going to an important early morning appointment, who knows), and the buses are at their busiest so discouraging extra users at that time is beneficial. This might be your only form of transport if you are disabled though, so it seems unfair to force payment if you have no other option. I get why the early peak is excluded (you could argue the afternoon peak should be excluded too), although I’m at a loss as to why it finishes at 11pm.

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    • Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Really annoying that you’ve been downvoted for a very reasonable take.

      and the buses are at their busiest so discouraging extra users at that time is beneficial.

      This is the key justification. However, the issue it points to is that the government are putting the desires of a business (primarily First Group) before the needs of the population.

      The goverment should make law for the benefit of the people, and businesses should work within the law in service to the people, especially people that pay them. The bus companies should run more busses at peak times to meet the added demand disabled people bring.

      Bus companies get massive subsidies and the businesses are stuctured in such a way as to squirrel their profits away so they can demand more. That the government, the people supposed to represent us, are capitulating to them further is an insult at best.

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    • Eiren@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “I think the point is, if you’re working you don’t need free bus travel.”

      Because there are exactly zero people in the country who are working but also poor, of course.

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    • Redfox8@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe if there was a public transport system still running that was not just a cash cow and stifled for the benefit of big oil then it wouldn’t matter who used it when.

      Some people wake very early and may only be well enough during rush hour to travel… and yet they’re not supported in doing so, even though it’d cost relative pennies.

      Oh and re your last Q, disabled people aren’t allowed to go out on the lash or to the theatre etc, they’re disabled so should be tucked up in bed staring at the samecwall they’ve been staring at all daytime. It saves the government tens of pounds a year that!

      PS I’m not being narky at you, rather the system.

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• MonsterMonster@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re giving the Tories a run for the prize title of Nasty Party.

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• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought the labour party was the liberal party in England…

  Oh wait, they’re exactly like our liberals aren’t they?

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  • Highlandcow@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They are supposed to be centre Auth left, but they are mostly just like the torys the idea they were ever liberals is laughable

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not really they’re to the right of American democrats on everything but healthcare

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• i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The restrictions also mean that disabled people can’t get a bus for free after 11 pm, because we don’t have social lives or jobs… there aren’t any buses at that time of night.

  FTFY.

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  • NoPanko@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are plenty of buses available after 11pm where I live

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    • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In cities, maybe. Everywhere else - forget it. We don’t even have buses on Sundays round here.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What in the shit?

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  • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Starmer Labour have shown themselves to have an absolute hatred for disabled people

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wild. That’s not cool at all.

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