GB News, so it's low hanging fruit, I'm aware. But the description, the headline, the caps and then finding out he's talking about the removal of peak fares just made me laugh

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by backupJM

28 comments

  1. I don’t see it as a failed policy. It’s a policy they should have continued rather than delaying so they could roll it out as an election sweetener.

  2. So unless you ‘screw’ the public it’s communism, what a sad man!

  3. No one asked Jeremy. We don’t care about your opinion.

  4. Must be exhausting being Clarkson. Starts every day fighting his way through the curtains, goes into the kitchen for a boiled egg and it’s always scrambled by the time it gets to the plate, . . . opens the paper and it’s commies everywhere.

  5. peak fares is such a daft concept we don’t have peak fares on bus tickets, planes tickets, ferry tickets and yet it’s taken us this long to get rid of it.

  6. But buying a farm to reduce your inheritance tax is not i suppose eh Jeremy?

  8. He’s not getting enough attention, clearly, and so it’s time for a little outburst to generate headlines.

  10. Peak fares is an absurd concept . It’s like charging more for petrol at certain times of the day . You don’t see buses do this . Why trains ?

  11. I don’t see any issue with the removal of peak fares. It’s clear they initially thought that the lowering of absurdly priced tickets to just being overpriced tickets would suddenly increase the public’s train use by 300% or some other unreasonable amount but that’s on them. If they actually wanted more people to use the service the key concept that seems to elude a lot of these people is actually making it affordable.

  12. This is the guy people cite as representing them and hard working farmers.

  13. I mean he probably thinks any form of transport bigger than a range rover is ‘communism’ so I expect nothing more from him honestly.

    As an off peak train user myself, this probably won’t change my habits massively, but it will be nice for the occasional times I miss the last non peak train before rush hour and end up having to wait.

    Now if only Scotrail could figure out what time needs 6 carriages, and what time needs 3, because the amount of times I see empty 6 carriage trains on route at 2pm and sardine-packed 3 carriages on at 5pm is just a bit daft.

  14. I dont know about communism – I prefer the more Orwellian (1984) term “Jocksoc”

  15. For 6 months around 2007/8 I commuted between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Would sometimes take the train but the peak fares made it about 4x more expensive than petrol cost. Cue gridlock M8 every morning/evening, horrible driving experience which lots of people may well have avoided if the trains weren’t so expensive.

  16. And here we have the daily bread and butter of SNP comms people.

    The SNP likes to be judged by its enemies more than by its record.

  17. One benefit of independence – never having to hear from Jeremy Clarkson again.

  18. Clarkson is an actor. A showman. Everything he says and does is for effect, no one has any idea what he actually believes, probably not even him.

  19. Clarkson? Unionists would have this prick as FM in a heartbeat. Just their cup of tea.

  20. The trotskyist entryism plot to turn the snp has worked comrade swinneys first step to communism is to remove peak fares

  21. He says that like communism didn’t give us a minimum wage, free healthcare at the point of use, free education at the point of use, the right to vote, etc etc etc. he’s just a cunt. There’s a reason why he keeps getting fired from companies

  22. Multi millionaire, tax dodging old man yells at government for attempting to make public transport affordable for your average person

  23. Huh, didn’t realise communism was so simple to implement, just abolish peak fares? Christ, at that rate we’ll finally reach post-scarcity anarchism when we remunicipalise the buses in Strathclyde.

  24. Removal of peak fares is ‘communism’?

    How does that make sense in any way? Scotrail is currently nationalised, which is not communism. After all, the most capitalist state in the world, the US, has nationalised railways. How ScotRail decides to operate its fares does not determine whether it suddenly becomes communist or capitalist. That’s not what communism is.

  25. I…….what?
    I mean it’s like a few quid off at peak times as someone who has to bounce between Glasgow & Edinburgh a lot or use the train stop to go like three stops from my flat to work I get real annoyed at peak fares but like when the fuck is this idiot even gonna be using a ScotRail route.

  26. He could have said its “peak communism”, it’s like a gaping open goal and all he had to do was tap it the fuck in but the cunt goes and misses it, fucking pie.

  28. So that would be the policy that was already in place before the SNP removed it? The SNP are a complete shambles.

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