Many here have (rightly) pointed to the conspiracy theory among the right, I think that there’s another (albeit smaller) reason: conformity and general laziness. This is especially true here in the U.S. People have just gotten too used to car dependency and suburbia.
I assume (pre-reading) the House of Lords and English aristocrats gone mad are responsible.
These are the source of a lot of disasterous policy in the UK.
What? House of Lords has no legislative power – only the power of delay. If anything in recent years they’ve worked to frustrate the excesses of this Tory government (not that I necessarily approve of the Lords as an institution).
It’s got far more to do with a rabid right wing media and a Tory party that builds their election strategy on ‘culture war’ identity politics over actual policy.
But anyway, reality is that London and Paris have pretty similar levels of transit – working in transport, my opinion is that it’s internal transport links within other cities that need most investment and work.
Right-wing nutjobs. The idea oozed out of russia, was picked up by the Brexit/Cambridge Analytica cabal/MAGA fascists/Qanon cultists and that’s where it comes from.
It was not ever based in any fact, reasoning, ideal, or true belief.
Conservative propaganda is the reason… Next question
It’s not “a toxic idea in the UK”. Fuck the fucking shitrag guardian. Paris is a city, the UK is a country (or 4 countries if you prefer) - so we could by comparing similar entities?
There is some political theatre around a tiny minority of swivel eyed loonies in London . That’s it .
