Turns out that Kerry McCarthy (Shadow Minister for Green Transport) has put out a couple of paragraphs on the Labour Party site here 👇 labour.org.uk/press/lorry-dr…
Nothing on Twitter though
Where the hell is Labour's 5 point plan to solve the truck driver shortage? Repeated and determined efforts to nail the government on this? Demand that - shock! - short term making it easier to hire from outside the UK might be necessary?
The Government has made a complete balls up, and it feels like Labour is asleep on the job - it's neither properly opposing nor putting forward alternatives
Hopeless
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Based on the @EuCyclistsFed discussion on bikes on trains...
If I were to make a Berlin-Hamburg combined 🚲🚅 day trip, what would be the best bet?
I *think* it'd be:
Own 🚲 from home to Berlin Hbf
🚅 Berlin Hbf - Hamburg Hbf
Hire 🚲 to my destination in Hamburg
But... a 🧵
My first problem is in Berlin
Cycle parking at Berlin Hbf is lousy, and at Berlin Südkreuz (nearest long distance station to my home) it's only fractionally better - would I leave my decent bike there?
At my local S-Bahn station (Hermannstrasse) - forget it
I could instead use a hire bike to get to Berlin Hbf, but that's a bit strange...
Or I could theoretically take my own bike to Hamburg on the train... but that's not simple, as not all the trains on that route convey bikes
Having now looked into the Hancock-Coladangelo background, they have known each other more than 20 years
And Hancock gave her a job and access, which was raised as a problem at the time, and like all the rest of the Tory sleaze issues, was dismissed then
When did the friendship become an affair? No idea, and it doesn't really matter - that's the deal for the two of them, perhaps only with the caveat that they might have broken lockdown rules to do it - but then Cummings also survived a lockdown breach
So this is basically a typical modern day UK politics story of chums and corrupt appointments
No one else in the government has resigned or been sacked for anything like this, and so Hancock will also survive I reckon