Re; a) I’m sorry for focussing on the typo. I thought it was amusing that it was on a word that you had chosen to embolden to make a specific point. Your playground style of debate rather led me to reciprocate, which was silly really. Sorry about that.

Re: b) No, I was not intending to be patronising in any way. I’m sorry if you interpreted it in that way. My point was that poor people do have to buy travelcards as well. That was all.

Re: c) You have chosen to ignore my comment at #7. Please let me know what is unreasonable, or indeed bollocks, about the assumption that when a company has to pay above inflation wage increases to its workers, and where those wages represent a large proportion of the company’s costs, the company may need to charge more for the service it provides. I have acknowledged entirely this is just an assumption, and I’d be very happy for it to be disproved. So perhaps you could explain what you think the reason is behind the price rises and how increased wages have nothing to do with them.

Re: d) Again, you have chosen to ignore other things I have written, such as where I stated clearly that I hold no flame for Boris or Ken.

Re: e) No, I didn’t manage to save up for a travelcard when going through hardship. I simply had no option but to buy a travelcard at the start of every month in order to get to work for the rest of that month, and was hit by continual above-inflation price increases each year. And as a result my remaining income was so small that by the end of the month I often struggled to afford food. Fortunately, I am no longer in that much hardship, but many others are, and will be relieved that travelcard prices are not going up this year. That doesn’t in any way take away from the fact that other ticket prices are going up and those who buy them are going to be hit. But I think it’s unfair to only focus on those increases without taking in the full picture. People used to attack Ken every year when prices went up, without acknowledging where he had frozen fares.

I’m trying to have a reasonable debate here, but if you’re only going to selectively quote me and in order to attack straw men, then I’m not really sure what the point is.

You’re probcably right. He is just indifferent to
the poor when faced with the hardships that
wealthy people face – bonuses were a few thousand
pounds short this year after all

Perhaps he is shifting the burden of revenue raising onto the poor, but I still don’t think that’s his primary motivator (the feeling I get from the article is that some people think Bo ris loves finding any excuse to charge the poor more).

I’d have to read more about the decisions before working out whether I agree with them.

However, the man’s a blinking idiot for hitting people who have to travel into central London from the outer boroughs, where his votes come from. Not everyone who voted for him was rich!

You’re prob ably right. He is just indifferent to
the poor when faced with the hardships that
wealthy people face – bonuses were a few thousand
pounds short this year after all

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AJ

CHECK OUT THE SITE EVERYONE

http://www.tubejourney.com – LETS GET OUR OWN BACK!!!

love it? Please tell everyone and the press if you can!

AJ

You’re probably right. He is just indifferent to
the poor when faced with the hardships that
wealthy people face – bonuses were a few thousand
pounds short this year after all

Perhaps he is shifting the burden of revenue raising onto the poor, but I still don’t think that’s his primary motivator (the feeling I get from the article is that some people think Boris loves finding any excuse to charge the poor more).

I’d have to read more about the decisions before working out whether I agree with them.

You’re probably right. He is just indifferent to
the poor when faced with the hardships that
wealthy people face – bonuses were a few thousand
pounds short this year after all

However, the man’s a blinking idiot for hitting people who have to travel into central London from the outer boroughs, where his votes come from. Not everyone who voted for him was rich!

Perhaps he is shifting the burden of revenue raising onto the poor, but I still don’t think that’s his primary motivator (the feeling I get from the article is that some people think Boris loves finding any excuse to charge the poor more).

I’d have to read more about the decisions before working out whether I agree with them.

“Perhaps he is shifting the burden of revenue raising onto the poor, but I still don’t think that’s his primary motivator”

You’re probably right. He is just indifferent to
the poor when faced with the hardships that
wealthy people face – bonuses were a few thousand
pounds short this year after all

“Perhaps he is shifting the burden of revenue raising onto the poor, but I still don’t think that’s his primary motivator”

You’re probably right. He is just indifferent to
the poor when faced with the hardships that
wealthy people face – bonuses were a few thousand
pounds short this year after all

Thanks for the links. Tells the story of London transport more fully for those of us not based in London, and certainly better than the story.

Perhaps he is shifting the burden of revenue raising onto the poor, but I still don’t think that’s his primary motivator (the feeling I get from the article is that some people think Boris loves finding any excuse to charge the poor more).

I’d have to read more about the decisions before working out whether I agree with them.

Hey, I know, it surprised me too. You’d certainly never guess from the way they bang on about it all the time.

I noticed the same thing in relation to other prices as well – the “London premium” has almost entirely disappeared on anything other than housing. Now I’ll grant you, if you’re paying more per week in rent than I do in a month, it may well be that your finances are getting squeezed… but it’s also pretty obvious to me that the reason for that is not rail fares.

However, the man’s a blinking idiot for hitting people who have to travel into central London from the outer boroughs, where his votes come from. Not everyone who voted for him was rich!

However, the man’s a blinking idiot for hitting people who have to travel into central London from the outer boroughs, where his votes come from. Not everyone who voted for him was rich!