On 16 Oct, 00:24, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
John B wrote:
On Oct 15, 1:25 pm, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
asdf wrote:

Cynically, I'd say it's mostly irrelevant, as the revenue is not
hypothecated between transport modes. Rather, Boris is sticking
firmly to his Tory principles: of the fares he controls, the middle
classes are most likely to own Travelcard seasons and least likely
to use buses.

That's a rather baffling use of the words "Tory principles"... if
Boris noticed that bus users were being subsidised by Travelcard
season holders, then ending that subsidy would be an application of
Tory principles, regardless of the class of the people using the
different tickets. If he just wanted to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer, then he is a Tory without principles.

Eh? Tory principles = "enrich the wealthy; enrich the middle class
enough that they vote for us; screw the poor". Anyone who attempts to
suggest Tory principles encompass anything else is either a shill or
an idiot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Tebbit
"Born into a working class family..."-

The Tories are mostly just the snooty servants of the upper classes,
with the job of enriching them of course. New Labour were the
consultants hired in for a while who haven't realised that their
contract is over. Thatcher* was a kind of aberration: representing
jumped-up new money that they had to crawl to for a while but hated.

Principles ... as stated above. Principles don't have to be moral or
ethical.


*or was that Cromwell?