Read this in the Telegraph this morning (behind a paywall, but a Google search might return better results)
Anyway, because of the Pandemic and the lockdowns and that a lot of office workers are WfH, passenger numbers on London’s Tube, buses and trains have fallen dramatically over the last 12 months, and that even when we return to “normal”, there will still be at least a 20% drop in passenger footfall, and thus revenue.
To alleviate this, old Suckdick is asking Boris for a £16bn bailout courtesy of the Taxpayer. He has also threatened to penalise car drivers with a £5.50 charge for entering central London, hoping it might convince them to use public transport.
He is also considering cutting services, but that would mean going toe2toe with the Unions, and he hasn’t got the balls to do that. Plus, a cut in public transport would be at odds with the government’s wish to “go green” and get everyone out of their cars and onto buses and trains.
Exactly why taxpayers outside of London should have to subsidize London’s transport network is taking the piss; especially since other big cities will have also witnessed a massive drop in footfall/revenue with their own public transport services. A simpler solution would be to raise council tax in London: it’s your network, you pay for it!
This also brings into question the need for the other elephant in the room – HS2. Current budget is around £110bn and rising. Exactly what purpose it will achieve is moot, but given what we have learnt about this pandemic and the need to return to the office, or go on business trips up and down the country by train, is no longer of paramount importance when we can simply Zoom from home!
But its good to know that Taxpayers – including myself living in the remotest part of the Lake District some 300 miles away from the Smoke – could end up paying to prop up Suckdick’s shite public transport system because its too big to fail!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/03/29/london-faces-tax-raid-commuters-shun-tube/
Nominated by: Technocunt
What are you actualy cunting?
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I think he is saying that the LU should cut its cloth to fit, as opposed to keeping an bloated service afloat with taxpayer’s cash when the travelling habits of the capital have changed and may not go back to how they were previously. Not for a long time, anyway.
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Ah ok. It was a toss up between that and Mayor of knife crime for me.
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You’re right – they are both massive cunts!
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I meant TFL not LU. Doh!
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No worries Paul, I knew what you meant.
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Testing….
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Admin, Any idea what happened to my TFL reply?
No trigger words to my knowledge.
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Fuck me, Phil the Greek has carked it!
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Beat me!
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Who would have thunk it?
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He was dead in the back of the car when he left hospital! They had him propped up with a metal rod!
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Poor old Brian….just shows money can extend your life.
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Did anyone have Phil the Greek in deadpool?
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I think our comrade MNC is the winner this time!
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Did anyone have Phil the Greek in deadpool?!!!
Does shit eventually slide off a shovel?
I’d love to know how many times he’s changed hands in Deadpool.
It’s going to disappoint MNC that it’s nul and void because the Duke was in fact the oldest man in the world.
(Can we all stay on topic please? – DA)
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He was probably the oldest 1st generation UK gimmegrant.
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sorry, my father in law is 102
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Coincidentally, my father-in-law was a 1st generation immigrant too. He died about 10 years ago, aged 81.
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Will be interesting to see what happens now given the Queen has previously been rumoured to have said she’ll abdicate if he dies first.
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No way will she abdicate, given the number of times she has publicly stated she won’t. She’s not renowned for playing fast and loose with the truth, unlike Boris.
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Phil the Greek takes flagship TFL safety train..
RIP Phil – you put a good shift in lad!
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Sadly, I suspected he wasn’t long for this world when I heard Her Madge had got more corgis.
RIP, you have gone to a better place, you old bugger.
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This will be interesting to see if the Hewitts pop over to get their slimy mitts on the buffet at the wake.
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The half prince is already seeing this as his opportunity to launch a coup.
😊
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Mate of min works for the Underground. He has 8 African women in hi section and every one of them has “issues” which involve them not putting in a full shift. All the while pocketing full pay. Their manager is a right on middle-class honky woman, so no chance of her doing owt. Anyway, London is a shit-hole of no relevance to the UK as a whole.
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They really need to get a grip and replace the old chocolate dispensers on the platforms with hot fried chiggun dispensers.
You won’t improve productivity, but you might see some more waddymelon smiles.
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The bloody underground stinks enough already and sadly many of the dark keys takes their KFC on the trains with them – at least they did in January 2020, the last time I was on one.
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Isn’t that diversity? Lol. No it’s dirty fuckers
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Lord C, who’s Min? 😈
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LU train drivers are on a starting salary of £65,000 a year + O/T. To get in on it you have to be friend or family of someone already in. The 21st century version of the print unions.
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Meghan for Queen assisted by Britney and Rhianna.
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TFL is an endless money pit. Communist unions, a useless Mayor and too many “right on” liberal types hiring on quotas not quality.
It is a microcosm of Labour and socialism in “action”.
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Are they still on strike? They seem to have been for the last ten years, the lazy pricks.
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It’s the sort of “Industrial Action” (ie the exact opposite) when standards slide so much no-one can actually tell what the difference is…
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Wouldn’t need as much of a bail out if the peaceful cunt of a mayor allowed tits and bums bikini type ads on the tube. Boring hypocritical cunt.
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It doesn’t matter how much dosh you give Suckdick he will spunk it up the wall on jobs for his pals, promoting the goatshagger cause or public displays of wokery pokery. He knows he is unassailable as the King of Londonstabistan, the immos and the wokies will never vote for anything except Labour.
What has happened in Londonstabistan is a foretaste of what is coming to the rest of you.
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No it isn’t maybe London is fucked up but now we listen to the resttheir shit
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TFL, mass transport for the stinking hordes who live there, fuck them and that P*ki cunt.
Old Phil has swamped the news, no more Ramadan and Covid for a couple of days.
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My TV and radio will be off for a month or so. Just the thought of all the horseshit and crocodile tears and that oily little ginger cunt of a royal correspondent fills me with disgust.
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Ginger and Meagain must be very pissed off not to be the number one royal story.
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Must be awkward for them turning up to the funeral after they turned on royal family, fuck the chav cunts stay in america and never come back
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Fuck London. Fuck Suckdick. Fuck Heathrow expansion. Fuck Crossrail. Fuck HS2. Fuck TfL.
Spend the money on real parts of the UK.
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Greater Manchester Transport is the worst in Britain.
It’s been shit for years now. But now there aren’t even any fucking buses. The cunts are on strike and they are using big Alton Towers/FA Cup Final style coaches on ordinary bus routes. Some old dear with a shopping trolley who only has a ten minute journey has to get on one and off one of those fucking things now. It took the poor mare twenty minutes to get on to the damn thing, and the cunt of a driver didn’t lift a finger to help her.
I remember when it was a great service and those ace orange buses. Mind you, that was fucking years ago. Oh, and Burnham is a massive cunt.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Greater_Manchester_Transport_bus_5871_%28KJA_871F%29%2C_Museum_of_Transport_in_Manchester%2C_4_October_2008_%281%29.jpg
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I don’t use public transport anyways, nothing to do with the killer cold but round here it’s full of smelly poor cunts.
I used the Tube a few months back while working in London and it’s packed full of smelly stinky cunts from every nation on Earth and some that look like they come from Middle Earth.
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Exactly why taxpayers outside of London should have to subsidize London’s transport network is taking the piss
They use it they pay for the fucker.
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Good point well raised T. Would like to add why us taxpayers have to basically fund French and German railways. Just because the franchise holder is a foreign government run company in all but name does not mean all the subsidies thrown at you by HMG have to go to reducing ticket price in your own country. Hells bell all the franchise cunts normally do on taking over is paint the trains a different colour. The government most likely pays for that as well. One fucking big cuntfest at which us the supplier of the moola are ritually arsefucked till we hand over more; whilst mouthing loudly this is doing our country some real real good. Wonder who will get the franchise for Armageddon?
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For personal financial reasons, I can’t agree with this cunting. The more free money these cunts get, ….well you get the picture.
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