Probably could have used some of the £15billion in covid fraud he wrote off.
Gave me a bit of a chuckle given its barely been 3 months since cancelling the northern stretch of HS2 was justified by reallocating £8 *billion* explicitly to road repairs and filling potholes. More than we spent building two brand new aircraft carriers and whoops sorry still not enough cash to actually fix anything.
Good thing I pay taxes and not base public spending on hypothetical bottomless pits of money then
I always find it amazing there isn’t a politician who stands on the platform “I will fill the potholes in” as their only aim. Everything can burn but the potholes will be sorted. I bet they would be more popular than a good amount of politicians these days!
Is that even paid for by the government or is it a local council thing?
So we are apparently such a poor country we can’t even fix pot holes in roads but we can give tax breaks to the wealthy and spunk billions on projects that get cancelled.
No, because you spent it all on your mates who couldn’t deliver PPE to the NHS and on fixing up the mess left by KamiKwazi’s idiot-nomics.
The fun thing about potholes is that even when you pave them, more are created over time. It’s quite rare to have an infrastructure that is actively destroying itself when used correctly. If only there was some other kind of infrastructure project which could reduce traffic. I guess we’ll never know.
So we cancelled hr2 to make a bottomless pit of money for…
Anyway I’m sure the papers will go crazy at another u turn right?
Here’s a wild concept: get some people on the payroll to fill holes rather than paying subbies to do a hole for £10k a pop. We are pretending everything is unaffordable because we’ve privatised everything and everyone is raping the tax payer.
No magic money tree! Unless it’s paying for Brexit or bombing children in Palestine!
17th December 2023 – 10 Downing Street Twitter: ‘This could be the last picture of a politician pointing at a pothole’
9th February 2024 ‘well you can’t expect us to actually fix then!’
A bottomless pit? A bottomless pothole…. No. It’s called A BUDGET. Thought this unelected mega rich man used to be chancellor?
Perhaps his wealth should be used to solve this problem that he has directly caused.
When politicians say things like ‘no bottomless pit’ or ‘no magic money tree’, it’d be nice if everyone can agree they’re taking the piss. The whole of politics is the spectacle of piss takery, interviews are them at peak condescension.
I believe many of the potholes now *are* bottomless pits.
“no bottomless pit” is a way for him to patronising and infantilise the electorate and argument. Its not about a bottomless pit but an adequate pot.
Dont get me wrong, Potholes need sorting in the UK, as they are dangerous, especially to those on 2 Wheels (I.e Mopeds/Motorbikes, Bicycles, etc) , however, i find it ironic that fixing potholes was an excuse in order to justify axing HS2 Phase 2a/2b, but now, like all of Sunak’s lies, its falling apart. We have a GDP of around £3T, how on earth can we not get it sorted without axing a benefitial infrastructure project?!
I understand.
Pot holes create wear and damage to cars, requiring more maintenance, a single pothole could be responsible for bringing thousands of pounds of maintenance revenue to mechanics and that means more tax revenue for the government.
So by fixing potholes you are actually damaging the economy and lowering public revenue /s
No that cash is tagged to stop millionaires paying inheritance tax you plebs.
Somehow all these other developed nations have functioning road networks. I guess we’ll never know how they manage it.
There’s no magic money tree, people! Unless your Tory mates own an asphalt or bitumen factory.
Really no “Black Holes” … perhaps get amazon and Google etc al to pay their fair share of Taxes then
Maybe we should do something about the increasing size/weight of cars then? The damage vehicles do to a road is roughly proportional to the fourth power of their weight, so even slightly heavier cars on average will result in increased road wear and a higher cost for maintenance. I doubt the trend towards SUVs has been good for the condition of our roads.
The irony being that the solution is actually to fill a series of very shallow pits.
We have a bottomless money pit when it comes to putting up boat men in hotels.
These men should be required to fix at least 1 pothole before being eligible for anything.
If you divide the UK road network by the adult population, each person would be responsible for 9 meters. Feels doable.
1997 all over again. As someone over a certain age one of the things I remember in election year was the complete state the roads prior to the general election in that year……silly that I remember stuff like that but history repeating and all.
Motorists pay road tax. So why does this not get used to repair the roads. Those high & mighty politicians who work for the people, should listen too the people instead of abusing the position they hold.
Rishi “no money for the peasants” Sunak wants to remind the voters that there is no money after being famous for handing out money for stupid projects and having enough wealth to personally pay for all the pot holes.
What’s this road tax for then if not for the roads?!
Seriously, when are we gonna get a Martin Lewis dictatorship?
But they’ve got £50m for ULEZ.
*And* another £50m to redesign and replace the cameras that are taken down.
I haven’t got a bottomless pit of cash for my road tax, so I won’t be paying.
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Probably could have used some of the £15billion in covid fraud he wrote off.
Gave me a bit of a chuckle given its barely been 3 months since cancelling the northern stretch of HS2 was justified by reallocating £8 *billion* explicitly to road repairs and filling potholes. More than we spent building two brand new aircraft carriers and whoops sorry still not enough cash to actually fix anything.
Good thing I pay taxes and not base public spending on hypothetical bottomless pits of money then
I always find it amazing there isn’t a politician who stands on the platform “I will fill the potholes in” as their only aim. Everything can burn but the potholes will be sorted. I bet they would be more popular than a good amount of politicians these days!
Is that even paid for by the government or is it a local council thing?
So we are apparently such a poor country we can’t even fix pot holes in roads but we can give tax breaks to the wealthy and spunk billions on projects that get cancelled.
No, because you spent it all on your mates who couldn’t deliver PPE to the NHS and on fixing up the mess left by KamiKwazi’s idiot-nomics.
The fun thing about potholes is that even when you pave them, more are created over time. It’s quite rare to have an infrastructure that is actively destroying itself when used correctly. If only there was some other kind of infrastructure project which could reduce traffic. I guess we’ll never know.
So we cancelled hr2 to make a bottomless pit of money for…
Anyway I’m sure the papers will go crazy at another u turn right?
Here’s a wild concept: get some people on the payroll to fill holes rather than paying subbies to do a hole for £10k a pop. We are pretending everything is unaffordable because we’ve privatised everything and everyone is raping the tax payer.
No magic money tree! Unless it’s paying for Brexit or bombing children in Palestine!
17th December 2023 – 10 Downing Street Twitter: ‘This could be the last picture of a politician pointing at a pothole’
9th February 2024 ‘well you can’t expect us to actually fix then!’
A bottomless pit? A bottomless pothole…. No. It’s called A BUDGET. Thought this unelected mega rich man used to be chancellor?
Perhaps his wealth should be used to solve this problem that he has directly caused.
When politicians say things like ‘no bottomless pit’ or ‘no magic money tree’, it’d be nice if everyone can agree they’re taking the piss. The whole of politics is the spectacle of piss takery, interviews are them at peak condescension.
I believe many of the potholes now *are* bottomless pits.
“no bottomless pit” is a way for him to patronising and infantilise the electorate and argument. Its not about a bottomless pit but an adequate pot.
Dont get me wrong, Potholes need sorting in the UK, as they are dangerous, especially to those on 2 Wheels (I.e Mopeds/Motorbikes, Bicycles, etc) , however, i find it ironic that fixing potholes was an excuse in order to justify axing HS2 Phase 2a/2b, but now, like all of Sunak’s lies, its falling apart. We have a GDP of around £3T, how on earth can we not get it sorted without axing a benefitial infrastructure project?!
I understand.
Pot holes create wear and damage to cars, requiring more maintenance, a single pothole could be responsible for bringing thousands of pounds of maintenance revenue to mechanics and that means more tax revenue for the government.
So by fixing potholes you are actually damaging the economy and lowering public revenue /s
No that cash is tagged to stop millionaires paying inheritance tax you plebs.
Somehow all these other developed nations have functioning road networks. I guess we’ll never know how they manage it.
There’s no magic money tree, people! Unless your Tory mates own an asphalt or bitumen factory.
Really no “Black Holes” … perhaps get amazon and Google etc al to pay their fair share of Taxes then
Maybe we should do something about the increasing size/weight of cars then? The damage vehicles do to a road is roughly proportional to the fourth power of their weight, so even slightly heavier cars on average will result in increased road wear and a higher cost for maintenance. I doubt the trend towards SUVs has been good for the condition of our roads.
The irony being that the solution is actually to fill a series of very shallow pits.
We have a bottomless money pit when it comes to putting up boat men in hotels.
These men should be required to fix at least 1 pothole before being eligible for anything.
If you divide the UK road network by the adult population, each person would be responsible for 9 meters. Feels doable.
1997 all over again. As someone over a certain age one of the things I remember in election year was the complete state the roads prior to the general election in that year……silly that I remember stuff like that but history repeating and all.
Motorists pay road tax. So why does this not get used to repair the roads. Those high & mighty politicians who work for the people, should listen too the people instead of abusing the position they hold.
Rishi “no money for the peasants” Sunak wants to remind the voters that there is no money after being famous for handing out money for stupid projects and having enough wealth to personally pay for all the pot holes.
What’s this road tax for then if not for the roads?!
Seriously, when are we gonna get a Martin Lewis dictatorship?
But they’ve got £50m for ULEZ.
*And* another £50m to redesign and replace the cameras that are taken down.
I haven’t got a bottomless pit of cash for my road tax, so I won’t be paying.