Tony Blair: 'Heavy price' for climate inaction

[RuleBritannia]

Well, why did you do almost nothing about it while you were PM, you twat?

To be fair, I believe he was the prime minister under which Kyoto was ratified, and under him the UK was the only country actually meeting its Kyoto targets for a while.

Under him the cost of travelling by public transport relative to the cost of travelling by car shot up.

That was caused by the privatisation of public transport, not by Blair personally.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

Well, why did you do almost nothing about it while you were PM, you twat?

To be fair, I believe he was the prime minister under which Kyoto was ratified, and under him the UK was the only country actually meeting its Kyoto targets for a while.

Under him the cost of travelling by public transport relative to the cost of travelling by car shot up.

That was caused by the privatisation of public transport, not by Blair personally.

So government policy has no impact on transport costs? There was plenty he could have done to make travelling by rail cheaper - instead he pandered to the whinging road lobby.

[Tigger]

A lot of people bleat on about how we should use public transport and how good it is. They are the people who live in London (or maybe near it or other cities), and no consideration is given to those that live outside the perimeters of effective public transport - and there are many. We used to be a two car family, and sold one so we could use public transport. We bought our second car again within a few months. My wife's workplace has just been relocated to a place where there is "more" public transport. This means only that there is a metro link nearby. We don't live near a metro link, and she can't get to work now using this wonderful system. Neither can any of her colleagues, who are all now losing their jobs.

[AnInconvenientScotsman]

National minimum wage, Good Friday Argeement?

OK.... we'll concede those.

The Good Friday Agreement comes under "legacy building" in my mind though.

Or maybe he was doing what he thought was right? The man did have some principles, for a while at least.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

A lot of people bleat on about how we should use public transport and how good it is. They are the people who live in London (or maybe near it or other cities), and no consideration is given to those that live outside the perimeters of effective public transport - and there are many. We used to be a two car family, and sold one so we could use public transport. We bought our second car again within a few months. My wife's workplace has just been relocated to a place where there is "more" public transport. This means only that there is a metro link nearby. We don't live near a metro link, and she can't get to work now using this wonderful system. Neither can any of her colleagues, who are all now losing their jobs.

Surely this is just an argument for extending the perimeters of effective public transport?