“THE EUROPEAN UNION COSTS BRITAIN £350,000,000 EVERY WEEK!!!!!!”

So proclaims the Leave Campaign’s bus. Plastered across the side of it. Huge letters. A blind man could see it from a mile away. 350 mil, every fucking week, pissed away on funding the vast, sprawling, undemocratic ‘thing’ that is ‘Europe’. And that money, which should be spent here, on our ‘elf serviss’, goes to put petrol (when he can get it) into Francoise Hollande’s scooter so he can go shag his mistress. It pays for their judges to make rules that persecute our way of life. Its used for ‘advanced bottom-pinching’ classes in Italy, neo-nazi tattoos in Croatia, it funds the Greek traditions of ‘no working, more pensions’ and is generally a ‘waste’ of our resources.

That’s what they’d have you believe.

But we get up to half of it back. Every week. In grants, in aid, in all sorts of red-tape shit. So we actually spend 175, or even 200 mil a week on ‘Europe’. Which is an alarming amount (though taken as a payment in isolation it doesn’t really tell much of a story… unless you make one up) but £350,000,000!!!!! grabs you right in your testicles and doesn’t let go. So ‘ok’, said Boris et al, ‘let’s use that figure’. Even though its basically meaningless, incorrect and pretty much a total fucking lie.

Meanwhile over at County Hall, new mayor of all of London, Sadiq Khan, is facing his own little problemette. “THERE WILL BE NO FARE INCREASES FOR LONDONERS BETWEEN NOW AND 2020!!!!”

That was basically the line that won Khan City Hall. That and the fact that Zac Goldsmith was a limp and sorry dickhead. We didn’t like Kahn much either, but heh, no fare rises? Sounds good to me.

Now we learn that fares will rise. As they do every year. “Ahhhhh” says Sadiq, “but they’re not Transport for London fares, they’re National Fare part of the London tickets. TFL costs will NOT increase; I have no control outside London”.

The net result: my travel card will go up in price in January. For travelling in London. Which is all I ever use it for. I’m a Londoner and my fares are going up. You lying, cheating, horrible little almost-terrorist-by-weak-association!!!

Fortunately for anyone… errrr… really old and over 60, travel is free. Hmmm, I bet people turning 60 in a few days time will be sniggering about those fare increases. For the ‘young’. Snigger, snigger…

When will politicians learn that telling half the story is TELLING A FUCKING LIE. And they wonder why we don’t trust them.

Happy Friday

A xxxx