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It is actually included in the standard license, just the documentation for enabling it is quite easy to misunderstand (it mentions several times that it’s for business only, but what it means is needing to enable it is business only. It’s already enabled for standard users). Confused me too.

My local conservative council has done the same. No new services, no bus route or transport, no local shops, just the cheapest way for developers to maximise their profit and shove more cars on the already overfilled roads

They spent the entire time complaining that they were forced to by central government, and their hands were tied. I’m extremely pro new housing but it just makes me sad when they build these soulless empty estates with tiny streets that end up jammed with parked cars (because no transport and driveways take up space that could be used to sell more houses), with naught but maybe a small co-op if the developers were feeling generous.

The rail industry was asked nearly 20 years ago what would best increase capacity in our existing infrastructure and this is what they cam up with. Faster, more frequent services on a high speed line that frees up paths on old mainlines for more local services and more rail freight, as these are at capacity right now

Sure, you can argue that it wasn’t a perfect plan, but it’s what we have. Framing it as “high speed travel to London” is what the press have been doing for 15 years and is disingenuous.

Of course it doesn’t matter because even before this latest idiocy the plan had been gutted down enough that a lot of that extra capacity wouldn’t have appeared, and we instead have spent billions extra tunnelling under fields near rich people’s homes so they wouldn’t have to hear trains every now and then

Have you seen the polls in the last two years? Or the that a majority of prominent Conservative MPs for the last ten years have already announced they won’t run next year to avoid their own little portillo moments?

They know they’re done and are holding on for either a miracle or something like this policy change to stick. Which isn’t impossible, but that there’s a good chance of him winning an election is what is wishful thinking. They’re done.

Some drivers hate them because they think buses are cheating by using them, and of course that one more lane would totally fix traffic once and for all

Presumably this policy is around adjusting them to not be bus lanes outside certain hours, which is actually the case for many of them at the moment, but most drivers ignore this because it would require them to be capable of reading a sign.

Luckily, these are just the last desperate acts of an unelected Prime Minister, who only got the job because the last one crashed the economy inside a month (who only got the job because the last one was Boris Johnson). He knows that the party will be condemned to irrelevance next year and is anxious to find anything that could possibly resonate with enough voters

Ironically Rishi Sunak famously doesn’t really drive, and once had to borrow someone else’s car for a publicity stunt where he inadvertently demonstrated that he doesn’t even know how to fill one up with petrol. Sadly he doesn’t drive because hes a gazillionaire, not because he uses public transport

I switched to an ISP with transparent pricing the instant Openreach fttp came to my area

Mid contract price rises and overcharging customers who don’t want, remember or know how to to play the game with virgin media retentions can get to fuck