A great line from BBC4's The Now Show this Friday relating to Gordon Brown and Boris Johnson both backing electric cars and trying to encourage people to buy them:
"It is very confusing. The government have been trying for the last decade to get us out of our cars and onto public transport. And now, they want us to buy cars! It really doesn't make sense!"
"People don't want to buy cars at the moment. The only way to make them buy them would be to make train travel very expensive, ruin local bus services, make really half-arsed cycle lanes that constantly s... I see what they've done!!"
I'm not going to follow this excellent piece of satire with a serious comment; I think it makes the point perfectly on its own.
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