Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Electric cars 'designed to limit working class people's ability to travel' says Lois Perry" video.

  1. At least he was honest. Get the lower orders out of their cars, and make them either walk or use unreliable public transport. Not only will that improve the environment, but will make it easier for elites such as him to travel around. Why not go further? Make the lower orders the property of the elites, and restrict them to certain areas, from which they may not move without permission? It would be for their own good, of course.
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  2.  @adamsmith4813  My parents and grandparents came from Ancoats, Manchester. My father certainly remembered what the Attlee government did for him. Five years in the Forces, mainly in North Africa and Italy. When he arrived home in late 1945, flushed with Clem's promises about what Labour were going to do for him, he was given a cheap, ill-fitting, suit and a one way train ticket to Manchester. A loyal Labour voter until then, he never voted Labour again for the rest of his life.
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  3. @Transplanted1 Seeking to make improvements is laudible, except when the improvements were likely to make life harder for everyone except this well-heeled Green and his associates. As these were intended to do.
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  4.  @adamsmith4813  Really? There were 23,000 private cars in Britain in 1900. This rose to 187,000 in 1920, and to 1,523,000 by 1939. Apart from a short period in 1923, and between 1929-35, the governments of the time were conservative. This rather contradicts your suggestion.
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  5.  @adamsmith4813  2,130,793 in 1949, but how is that relevant? 'I know an accountant he won't get the bus because it's sure to have working class people on it.' If that is the extent of your argument, then it is a facile one. I knew someone who worked for socialist heroine Barbara Castle. He told me that, when she travelled up to her Blackburn constituency, she used a chauffeur-driven Bentley from London, but just outside Blackburn she met her local agent, who drove her to the constituency office in a battered old mini. My mate was a committed Socialist, but didn't see anything amiss in Barbara's duplicity. This is irrelevant, also, by the way.
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  6.  @adamsmith4813  1). Yes. 2). No. It wasn't something we discussed.
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