Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Tuesday 27 January 2009
So Much For Low Inflation
In my experience yesterday, the cost of public transport has gone up by one seventh in 28 days.
We need a national network of public transport free at the point of use, centred on publicly owned railways.
If it were taxpayer funded, then the cost to the taxpayer would have to go up with inflation, and so would taxes. So you'd still end up paying for it.
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily at all.
ReplyDeleteAnd even so, that would be quite an improvement on an increase of whatever percentage one seventh is over the course of a month.