Self-Righteous, Arrogant Scumbag

May 15, 2020 Longrider Civil Liberties, Driving Instruction, General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Transport 16

Marvin Rees, mayor of Bristol.

Bristol’s Mayor said he wants to “take advantage of empty roads” to ban vehicles from city centre streets.

Marvin Rees has announced plans to stop general traffic using Bristol Bridge and Baldwin Street and “accelerate” the pedestrianisation of the old city.

He said he wants to “make the changes right now” so people going back to work return with the “right travel habits”.

It’s that last bit that really makes me angry – even if it is all an example of the puffed-up arrogance of the petty local official. Who the flying fuck is he to determine what is – or is not – the right travel habits?

What we need are some spikes on Bristol bridge with a few heads inserted upon them – Mayor Rees being one of them. Indeed, the closing of roads for the erection of a scaffold might be an idea worth considering. He is a servant, not a boss and he needs to be reminded of that.

Nigel Humphries, from the ABD, said it was an “absolute disgrace” the authority was “using Covid-19 as an excuse to advance a political agenda”.

Colour me surprised. Unfortunately, my home town is run by extremist eco-freaks elected by yogurt knitting, anti-car, anti-smoking, anti-fun types who think the same way. As I live in South Gloucestershire, just on the outside of this insanity, I am not a voter there. Also, I can choose to avoid going into Bristol itself and I do as much as is humanly possible, lest I become contaminated.

16 Comments

  1. And then they wonder why town centres are dying, while online retail flourishes…

    I can’t remember the last time I went into a UK city to shop or look around shops. Any time I need to buy something, it’s done online or in an out of town shopping centre where I can park easily and cheaply.

  2. Yep i quite agree. Who do these sanctimoneous bastards think they are telling people how to live their lives. I won’t be getting out of my car any time soon. These eco wankers want putting back in their boxes.

  3. I would be very interested to know how Marvin Rees Mayor of Bristol gets himself from A to B. Does anyone suppose that he has the right travel habits?

    • Nice link, I don’t usually read Piers Morgan but he shows how the ‘experts’ got it wrong again and again.
      They are wrong again about back to school too, the kids should all be sent to Kovid Kamps for a month to get it off each other then return to school post infection and no risk to the grown ups.

      Yes a very few will die but those kids would otherwise spend the rest of their lives trying to hide from the virus until it gets them eventually.

      • Yep, and any ‘vulnerable’ children could just as easily be killed by Flu, Rhino-V….*

        Boarding school for all children sounds good. Make it a camping expedition, sleep under desk or anywhere they want

        Child care & infection risk both solved. Plenty of spare care home staff available as so many old there dying

        * I’m sure we all remember a few at school who were off every time they had a sniffle

  5. They really are as dim as a Toc H lamp. Rotherham is a prime exapmle of what happens when you introduce stupid traffic controls. It worked when there was no alternative, then Meadowhall shopping centre opened three miles away with acres of free parking. Result? Rotherham town centre is a wasteland. To rub it in, the same deep thinkers opened out of town shopping sites of their own . . . .

  6. I’ve lived for the last 30 odd years in a south coast town but originally from a big city. Go back there fairly regularly, every few months and I’ve watched over the years as transit into by car has been made gradually more difficult. Greed cameras everywhere, 30mph limits on perfectly good dual carriageways. Lane restrictions, bus lanes, this lanes, that lanes, the other lanes. Calculatedly unconnected and confusing one ways and don’t get me started and making it more or less impossible to park.

    This stellar arrogance is no surprise, its just a continuation of what they’ve been doing for years. Detached echo chamber “thinking”, totally insulated from the real world.

    I can get by without going into the centre of places like Bristol. Can the centre of Bristol live without people coming in? Not that the echochamberocracy know or care,

  7. In an earlier age he would have used the Covid Crisis to ban extra-marital affairs to enforce correct Conjugal Behaviour.

  8. I am sure the residents and voters of Bristol will look forward to resolving this at the next elections. In the meantime, we can but gasp as people like this mayor take it upon themselves to add to the misery of the CV19 pandemic by completely fucking the lives of people and businesses in this great city.

    I await the photos of Rees being conveyed in his Mayoral limo wholst anyone else stupid enough to try getting into the city waits in the rain at the bus stop

  9. This early Saturday afternoon my residential street is awash with parking spaces for the first time in two months.

    Oh happy days! My neighbours must have headed for the nearby sunny beaches & pictouresq beauty spots, as recently permitted: because they ain’t queueing at Sainsbury’s or the Co-OP.

    I would like to know how many of them are State or Local Council (laid off on full salary non-)workers phoning in next week to express their anxiety about returning to work in the Ongoing Covid19 Crisis.

    • I remember my dad going out some evenings on behalf of Toc H. As I recall, they were installing lights (red I think) in the homes of the elderly and disabled. These were clearly visible from the street and the residents could turn them on if they were in difficulty and needed help.

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