dan wrote:

"Mark Fried" wrote in message ...

"Respect" are promising a £1 flat fare for tube use. They want *more*

people

to use the tube.

I wonder if anyone in "Respect" has ever used the tube in the morning

rush

hour?

Who or what are "Respect"?

this lot: http://www.respectfestival.org.uk/ ?


Errrr.. no! RESPECT are a new political party founded by George
Galloway and the Stop the War Coalition. Their web-site is
http://www.respectcoalition.org/

I am not surprised that you hadn't heard of them - few people
have......

I have to say that I wasn't very impressed by them at the ULU hustings;
they were mildly disruptive (they wanted to be on the panel which had
representatives from the top five parties at the last election) and if
I'm going to vote based on the war, I'm certainly not going to do it in
the London elections which have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Besides, all five candidates on the panel were anti-war anyway - so they
weren't really achieving anything.

As for their policies, they seem to have been picked out of the air just
so it looks like they are actually bothered about London. Apparently
Respect "are not the usual suited politicians who court your vote, then
once in office turn their backs on you."
That is, until they bankrupt TfL within a few months with:
- £1 tube fare (presumably with associated decreases in season ticket
fares and bus fares)
- full disabled accessibility on ALL public transport (presumably
including Zone 1 LU stations)
- free travel for pensioners (that we already have?), students, under
18s and the unemployed
- conductors on all buses
- guards on all LU and overground trains
- and 24-hour LU and train services (where maintenance is presumably
carried out by pixies)


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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London