He is a FAILURE at being a COMIC despite asking me for TIPS for the last 40 years.
It's true, I'm the Tommy Cannon to your Bobby Ball
He is a FAILURE at being a COMIC despite asking me for TIPS for the last 40 years.
Governements getting involved in private business is something I don't agree with in the slightest. I'd rather they spend there time elsewhere. This just sounds like populism.
Two problems with that statement.
1) The railways are already in part quasi run by the goverment. Particularly in the way the ticket prices are set.
2) The railways are mostly a monopoly and it's EXACTLY where a free market loving state should intervene.
Lastly, it's a great idea. A flexible ticket to an event that is likely to change its date.
Fine. So what is your position of the huge state subsidy of the railways ?Not a problem in my eyes. You've only strengthened the belief I have in it.
Fine. So what is your position of the huge state subsidy of the railways ?
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I think it's a minimum of £112 million a year
Or the railways sneakily add a quid to the price of a ticket, include cancellation insurance for 'free', and market it as a new perk to thank the travelling fans for their loyalty?
Or, do what I do... Go to Trainline, get it miles cheaper than rocking up at the station, click the cancellation insurance box, and have no further worries.
And lastly.Governments shouldn't be involved.
And lastly.
What is your position on their monoploy ?
Because I'd imagine a free marketer would have a problem with it.
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[emoji1]I wouldn't consider it a monopoly.
Governements getting involved in private business is something I don't agree with in the slightest. I'd rather they spend there time elsewhere. This just sounds like populism.
Cheers - without coming across arrogant- how much do they need to give? That is a LOT of money - I assume that doesn't include the money paid out locally through club foundations etc
It's a question of priorities. Are we talking 4G pitches, UEFA 'B' minimum qualified coaches for every youth team in the UK (as they have in Iceland, for example).
The FA charge people wanting to take the UEFA 'A' qualification £2,965, in Germany the DFB charge €800.
The problems are complex, three governing bodies with different objectives and finances, a school curriculum that is making sport and exercise more marginalised, funding at a local level being cut and so on. Just taking money from the Premier League TV deal is a nice soundbite, but unless the money is spent wisely then it's pissing in the wind.
Cheers - without coming across arrogant- how much do they need to give? That is a LOT of money - I assume that doesn't include the money paid out locally through club foundations etc
I believe a football finance expert was on Radio 4 discussing Corbyn's plan to force the Premier League to give 5% of its TV money to grassroots football, and he said that it seemed harsh on a small club such as Crystal Palace to be expected to contribute towards park football when central and local government funding had been slashed for a number of years.
I didn't even give credence to the fact that he alluded to putting 40 litres of oil in his car at BP.... I assume he's got a sump the size of Michelle McManus's arse, or he meant petrol / diesel.
Anyway. Who cares. It's Sunday.
The PL - zero.
Richard Scudamore covered this is a long and informative interview on Radio 5's Sports Week last Sunday.
No other club level private entity in the world gives away sums anywhere approaching that figure.
UK trains are now Japanese!Anyway back to the ticket idea
Populist gimmick
Far better to make a pledge that within X years all UK trains will run with the same efficiency and punctuality as Japanese trains, and actually invest in the railways and ensure that this happens.
Governements getting involved in private business is something I don't agree with in the slightest. I'd rather they spend there time elsewhere. This just sounds like populism.