Sturgeonland

[Red Zone]

Oor Kev is the MSP charged with introducing the National Care Service.

I’ll just let that sink in.

Unlike anything sensible or educational or worthwhile in his fûcking dense cranium.

Before that, he was the boy who forgot to get The Party’s comms staff to publicise the new domestic fire alarm arrangements in 2019-20.

He was also the cheerleader in attempting to wreck the Trainie Park by attempting to invoke the finance nightmare of Tax Incremental Funding in an attempt to crawl up Ian Wood’s butthole. TIF was later revealed to have been rigged after a long-delayed Sunday Herald FOI request.

In coalition with the LibDems on the local council, he, as Finance Convenor, produced “an alternative budget” before proudly publicising it. It included compulsory redundancy of council staff. He had to withdraw it next day after having his collar felt by Holyrood’s Finance Minister (Swinney) , who reminded him that it was the policy of The Party to oppose compulsory redundancies in local authorities. Then the complete fûcking dick headed up an anti-cuts march in the city, opposing the cuts that he and the Libs had cooked up.

Then there was his embarrassing shouty in-chamber spat with the admirable Andy Wightman, where he got not just the wrong end of the stick, but was in the wrong forest altogether.

Then getting chucked out of a post-conference LGBTQ+ event in Aberdeen after a shouting match with a shag rival..

You get the picture? You see what I mean?

There’s hunners more…

Appointed Minister for Transport - what can possibly go wrong

[TheDeeDon]

Appointed Minister for Transport - what can possibly go wrong

We have a minister of transport? Who knew.

Bus services cut to the bone, with more to come in the coming months and stagecoach ramping fares next week by 12%.

Driver shortages meaning services cancelled with no notice and ALWAYS on the coldest mornings or nights.

My £2.10 single fare in 2020, will hit the £3 mark next week.

I suppose I am one of life's failures for using public transport after a certain age.

[57vintage]

We have a minister of transport? Who knew.

Bus services cut to the bone, with more to come in the coming months and stagecoach ramping fares next week by 12%.

Driver shortages meaning services cancelled with no notice and ALWAYS on the coldest mornings or nights.

My £2.10 single fare in 2020, will hit the £3 mark next week.

I suppose I am one of life's failures for using public transport after a certain age.

Thatcher’s Bus Deregulation legislation from 1987 was promoted as a certain means of keeping fares low as competition meant choice for the traveller.

Until Salmond’s pal (and Clause 2A bigot) Souter ran all competition off the road by scandalous business practices before hiking the fares as his monopoly allowed. It was a bit odd that The Party’s 2007 Holyrood manifesto committed it to re-regulation, which had mysteriously vanished from the 2012 version. Souter’s Party donations amounting to around £1.2m must just have been coincidental.

Kevin will sort it all out though.

[InversneckieDob]

Public transport in our country, and in the wider UK, is nothing short of a fu cking scandal.
People are FORCED into cars, particularly in more rural areas, by the paucity/cost/unreliability of public transport.
That's before you factor in the general unpleasantness of the experience.

Yet governments espouse a "green agenda"?

Disgrace.

[57vintage]

Public transport in our country, and in the wider UK, is nothing short of a fu cking scandal.
People are FORCED into cars, particularly in more rural areas, by the paucity/cost/unreliability of public transport.
That's before you factor in the general unpleasantness of the experience.

Yet governments espouse a "green agenda"?

Disgrace.

It’s almost as if politicians think that a bus will run from Spinningdale to Kiltarlity every hour seven days a week due to the altruism of operators, and their burning motivation to serve the public rather than rack up the profits.

I assume too that the green transport revolution will mean that the electric trucks, buses, and private cars that few can afford will take up no space at all on the road, and that that peer-reviewed evidence is the basis for governmental tardiness in dualling the A96, and A9.

Maybe if we adopted a homophone (settle, donsdaft…) approach to the identity of one of their near-success projects, public transport would attract similar attention, funding and action.

“Trains-agenda” has a familiar ring to it, and might see it move up the ”must do unless it’s affa hard, and we can always blame (here Rover, here boy) Westminster list.”

The time the place and the mood is right
And good old Kevin’s gonna be all right

[Donanddusted]

homophone

I heard about those.
They had a right queer ringtone.

[57vintage]

I heard about those.
They had a right queer ringtone.

News that Covid’s covert agent Margaret Ferrier has fallen foul of the Parliamentary inquiry and may be suspended from the Commons. Like the lying former PM, possibly, this may result in a by-election in the Rutherglen area.

Interesting times.

Ferries? Ferrier? Don’t buy a Ferrari, Humza.

[TheDeeDon]

It’s almost as if politicians think that a bus will run from Spinningdale to Kiltarlity every hour seven days a week due to the altruism of operators, and their burning motivation to serve the public rather than rack up the profits.

I assume too that the green transport revolution will mean that the electric trucks, buses, and private cars that few can afford will take up no space at all on the road, and that that peer-reviewed evidence is the basis for governmental tardiness in dualling the A96, and A9.

Maybe if we adopted a homophone (settle, donsdaft…) approach to the identity of one of their near-success projects, public transport would attract similar attention, funding and action.

“Trains-agenda” has a familiar ring to it, and might see it move up the ”must do unless it’s affa hard, and we can always blame (here Rover, here boy) Westminster list.”

The time the place and the mood is right
And good old Kevin’s gonna be all right

Our government buy the green buses for the operators as they can't afford too, but still able to pay dividends to shareholders.

It's a hell of a mess and sadly it a low priority as only minkers like myself have to rely on it.
Not really a priority as doesn't impact most people.

I worked for First many moons ago and that was a real eye opener and then they won the ScotRail franchise and that was a gravy train.

[TheDeeDon]

Thatcher’s Bus Deregulation legislation from 1987 was promoted as a certain means of keeping fares low as competition meant choice for the traveller.

Until Salmond’s pal (and Clause 2A bigot) Souter ran all competition off the road by scandalous business practices before hiking the fares as his monopoly allowed. It was a bit odd that The Party’s 2007 Holyrood manifesto committed it to re-regulation, which had mysteriously vanished from the 2012 version. Souter’s Party donations amounting to around £1.2m must just have been coincidental.

Kevin will sort it all out though.

Aye, the great deregulation of buses. Another one of the witches many great ideas that we only now see the real impact of her destruction, like so many other things.

Private companies get to pick the services they run and no obligation to run non profitable services.

Took the public service out of public service vehicles.

Trains are even worse, you have to sell a kidney to afford train fares.