the punishment should be a week in the stockade in the town square where people pelt you with rotten fruit, but this is a good start
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Good news if it was actually enforced. I vote that bus drivers use the tannoys to say, "Hey, who's that plonker on the upper deck playing AI slop? Turn it off, you muppet!" I don't know what they should do when they get inevitably ignored.
(It's nearly always AI slop revenge stories or bhangra (might not be bhangra exactly, I'm Indian but I don't actually know the different genres. Desi stuff anyway.))
In my experience its constant scrolling tiktok. You get to hear the AI lady saying "watch what happ-" "when my br-" "pov you're-" "askin-" "im in love with my new set of-" "when the-" "going to-"
I'm getting enraged thinking about it.
There shouldn’t be a ticket. It should be that the bus doesn’t move until the sound is turned off. It will sort itself out.
No, it won't. I've been on buses and trains where this has happened. "We will not be moving until the freeloaders depart or the British Transport Police arrive." Well, the people who don't care they're pissing off everyone around them already won't care if it's being pointed out, meanwhile all of the paying customers are being delayed, being made late for work, being made to miss the connections. You can't use shame on the shameless.
I don’t mean shame. I mean irritation. There’s a difference between freeloaders, which isn’t even something you can identify or give a shit about, and an asshole playing loud music or tiktok. Eventually someone will break the silence and/or break their nose.
They used to do this 10y+ ago on the buses in London, but they must have been trained to just ignore it now for safety reasons. The freeloaders just waltz on shamelessly and nothing happens. Last time I was on a bus and the driver stopped, the freeloader got up to the driver's cab and threatened to stab him.
The right sentiment but without enough inspectors and transport police to enforce it it’s practically meaningless.
And just like that, the cost-of-living crisis and rampant societal inequality was solved forever.
Wow. Sounds like Burnham is already running out of ideas.
When they can’t fix the big problems, they focus on the small ones.
"How dare we deal with minor problems while there major problems even if those major problems are also already being dealt with and we have the capacity to do both."
Ah yes, fix 14 years of Tory and EU austerity in 2 years.. totally doable
Don't you know.
The plan was Utopia.
And the timeframe was immediately.
EU austerity
Ah yes the EU, famously able to convince the UK to adopt the union's monetary system.
Brits still delusionally blaming Europe for their own mistakes.
Lol, maybe you should learn about EU austerity policies that were enforced, while we in the EU
And while you're at it, learn the difference between monetary systems and budgets.
Tool.
maybe you should learn about EU austerity policies that were enforced, while we in the EU
Maybe you should present your own list of these imaginary policies. As they exist inside your head it would be pretty hard for me to learn about them otherwise. The UK were never subject to the Troika austerity policies.
Or I guess you really believe you'll be seeing that £350 million any day now.
Fucking Google it
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4952125/
The actual policies were called Six-Pack, Two-Pack, and the 2012 Fiscal Compact (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance),
Nowhere in the paper you link does it imply that the EU imposed austerity policies on the UK.
The Tories are the only ones responsible for the fiscal policies adopted after the recession.
EU, devolution and social care not big enough for you?
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