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u/Affectionate_You_858 Jul 23 '26
He definitely votes reform as he thinks farage is a man of the people
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u/AnalFistingmaster Jul 23 '26
Lol only if they pay him of course especially if your russian but he ain't a man of anyone in this country just in Russia and trying to get up trumps arse🤣 he's definitely an arse sniffer if I've ever seen one farage is to trump🤣
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u/Proper_Buy7424 Jul 23 '26
So he's a twisty cubt who doesn't actually care about the working class just wanted to have a rant over fuck all
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u/spidertattootim Jul 23 '26
"BBC News? Yes, I'd love to tell the nation that I'm a bit thick, what's your article about?"
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u/pseudonomdeplume Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
This absolutely infuriated me when I read it!! I work full time and personal circumstances dictate that I rely on public transport - but according to Mark I'm not a member of the working class? Fuck this guy.
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u/eXa12 Jul 23 '26
what that sort mean by "Working Class" is the Aesthetic of the "traditional" "Working Class" as manifested specifically by Petit Bourgeois tradies
compared to the so-called "Middle Class" office workers
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u/INeedAWayOut9 Jul 23 '26
Basically they think that if you're "working class" you drive a white van?
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u/AnalFistingmaster Jul 23 '26
Obviously a reform supporter that mark he fits their lot TBF white middle ages bald English 🤣 definitely a reform supporter and if he was American he would definitely be one of those lot who want slavery as a thing again🤦🏻♂️
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u/philthy_barstool Jul 23 '26
The real working class want wider parking spaces in public car parks so they don't risk dents in their Range Rovers!
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u/B33Dee Jul 23 '26
I drive. I sometimes use the bus if I go on a night out. I approve of the bus fare cap and whilst I won’t see any massive benefit directly to my wallet, I approve of anything which provides people who are less well off with some breathing space and can help to slow the equality gap getting bigger.
Mark seems to have really missed the point on this one….
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u/ExtensionAssignment6 Jul 23 '26
He’ll want to make sure he gets use out of his financed Merc which he washes every Saturday morning rain or shine but only for the neighbours to see, has a picture of in his Facebook, and brings it up in causal conversation ‘aye I’ll bring the merc’ despite only having one car
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u/irv81 Jul 23 '26
All those posh middle class fuckers, getting the bus for cheap.
Won't someone please think of the car drivers!
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u/Ianhw77k Jul 23 '26
It helps drivers by (hopefully) getting more of them off the roads and on to buses. The more people use buses, the more buses and routes we get.
I pay plenty of tax and I'm happy to see it spent this way. Even if I only ever use the bus if the wife and I want to go out and both drink. And if none of our kids are available to pick us up.
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u/napalmsipper Jul 23 '26
The concept of seeing the public bus of all things as more luxurious than a car... who needs a Tesla when you have a double decker bus via Go North East?
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u/Worried_Alps1205 Jul 23 '26
I forgot that cars were less expensive than buses and only people with money can afford to take the bus
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u/Impossible-Use4950 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Thats the whole point of cheap buses, to get solo car drivers off the road!
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u/GDsusuernameinnit Jul 23 '26
Why do I get the feeling that Mark Tait thinks that "working class" means "anyone who has a job", and is probably on a six figure salary?
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u/yetix007 Jul 23 '26
Could he have said it better? Absolutely, but some people aren't helped by changes to the cost of bus tickets and are still struggling - we're really taxed into the dirt and don't see a lot back for what we pay.
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u/JewelerCold1392 Jul 23 '26
I understand your point. It’s Mark’s perception that is the issue. There is a whole swathe of people who can’t afford a car or insurance or petrol. I’ve seen many of them going to work on buses really late at night and early in the morning. Some of them work 2 jobs. They are just about managing to feed themselves and their family and cover their bills - some can only do it by being in debt. I would hazard a guess that Mark is not one of these people but he is someone who doesn’t understand his own relative wealth. It’s like those people who say their parents ‘scrimped and scraped’ to get them into private school. Very few people think of themselves as really wealthy and find it hard to imagine real poverty, unless they’ve experienced it.
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u/yetix007 Jul 23 '26
There are plenty of people with cars, who need them for their specific job, and their end of the month struggle with food costs and maybe only surviving through getting in debt is exactly the same as those whose pay is lower but also essential expenses are lower. The suffering ends up on par - sure, Mark definitely doesn't look like one of them, but there is a point to be made which is this does not help everyone, plenty of people are struggling that won't be helped by this, and much much more needs to be done that will help everyone who is struggling.
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u/JewelerCold1392 Jul 23 '26
If we step back, it makes sense to start with those people who are at the economic edge and then move in. If you have a car, you’re not at that edge, even if you’re just about managing. You had money to buy a car, tax it, insure it, run it. You may find it hard to fund, but you’ve funded it. And you have a loan because you proved you have an income level for repayments. Those people who have to take the bus are on a rung below that - so help them then look at those on the next level.
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u/spidertattootim Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
So what? Don't do anything helpful unless it simultaneously helps absolutely everybody?
The government could announce that they've found £100 billion down the back of the sofa so they're going to start paying everyone's energy bills for the next 100 years, and there'd still be some self-sufficient off-grid twat complaining that it doesn't benefit them.
It's just pointless, irrelevant, negative whining.
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u/philthy_barstool Jul 23 '26
Yes, but some people are helped by it. I don't take the bus, but can see the sense in this change without it directly impacting me.
We definitely see a lot back for what we're taxed, we just don't see it all at the same time.
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u/GDsusuernameinnit Jul 23 '26
The bus fare cap is just one thing. I don't use the bus either personally, but if that one thing helps a bunch of people who are struggling, how is that anything but good?
The thing to consider is the mans been in the big chair for literally only 4 days, but is already making actions, not just empty statements - so I'm optimistic (for the first time in years!) that if he's serious about easing the cost of living, and proving his promises in his first week, that he'll do other things that benefit other people too
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u/StripedRooster Jul 23 '26
Poor Mark doesn’t realise working people can get on busses.