'Pot holes' also represent a broader meme or narrative used by the fossil fueled right in regions.
Pot holes have been a fact of life for anyone in regions, plus more unsealed roads in the past.
However, see UK far right Restore has been highlighting 'pot holes' as a symptom of bad governance (by centrist councils) and to attract male motor heads with a simplistic promise of fixing the roads.
Further, eg a northern Victoria council (CoC & RE agents), had water fountains disappear from main (buy plastic bottles), along with trees (for more parking), pressure to cut community bus services (while more seniors) etc. while those who drive cars may claim no one uses VLine regional to Melbourne (in fact often booked out.... by seniors).
Recently with a friend who was driving inner west Melbourne (suffers too much heavy truck traffic) claimed that pot holes were being caused by EVs......
This is such a good piece. We see this right across Western countries, particularly so in UK. The government is referred to as the lanyard class ... leading to two tier policing around areas such as rape, domestic abuse and misappropriation of public funds to support government top down interference rather than bottom up support and delivery of services. Child protection is a case in point, the government spends millions on removing children from poverty stricken homes rather than removing poverty from those homes. It is more costly to put children into foster care than it would be to give the support to families that need State aid to put a roof over their children's heads. We are returning to Victorian values that the poor are feckless child abusers rather than deal with societal issues such as no public housing being built and jobs that pay so little that the poor have little option than to rely on State aid to even feed themselves.
'Pot holes' also represent a broader meme or narrative used by the fossil fueled right in regions.
Pot holes have been a fact of life for anyone in regions, plus more unsealed roads in the past.
However, see UK far right Restore has been highlighting 'pot holes' as a symptom of bad governance (by centrist councils) and to attract male motor heads with a simplistic promise of fixing the roads.
Further, eg a northern Victoria council (CoC & RE agents), had water fountains disappear from main (buy plastic bottles), along with trees (for more parking), pressure to cut community bus services (while more seniors) etc. while those who drive cars may claim no one uses VLine regional to Melbourne (in fact often booked out.... by seniors).
Recently with a friend who was driving inner west Melbourne (suffers too much heavy truck traffic) claimed that pot holes were being caused by EVs......
In South Africa they say: 'We used to drive on the left of the road. Now we drive on what's left of the road.' Good slogan for Victoria, too.
This is such a good piece. We see this right across Western countries, particularly so in UK. The government is referred to as the lanyard class ... leading to two tier policing around areas such as rape, domestic abuse and misappropriation of public funds to support government top down interference rather than bottom up support and delivery of services. Child protection is a case in point, the government spends millions on removing children from poverty stricken homes rather than removing poverty from those homes. It is more costly to put children into foster care than it would be to give the support to families that need State aid to put a roof over their children's heads. We are returning to Victorian values that the poor are feckless child abusers rather than deal with societal issues such as no public housing being built and jobs that pay so little that the poor have little option than to rely on State aid to even feed themselves.
It's the poverty of politics that's the problem, and its visionless quality.