(12 Apr 2018, 7:23 pm)Adrian wrote Do you think the two are mutually exclusive? Every party will come up with a manifesto to pledge to offer different things to different groups of people; that is politics.
Not sure I understand your comment about VED and the link to lower investment. Unless you're dreaming up a forecast for a particular local authority area?
I believe it's nonsense that nobody will even think about if they were ever to get into power in the next election... which is looking more and more unlikely by the day. It's gone from a 2 horse-race to a 0 horse-race. Just stale as far as I can see. I don't believe there is a representative for these issues who will actually progress upon them in any way.
My point with the former wasn't a link to lower investment, rather why stop taking on funding from passengers of that age bracket? Tonnes of them pay for passes and whatnot. Why not use both the VED funding (or it's derivatives) and fares from these passengers to boost funding into public service, instead of replacing it for the 5-25 year old demo?