 Welcome to my latest review of the Forbidden 2020 Manifesto and today I'm going to be looking at transport. Now while this may not sound like the most exciting policy area, it actually is crucial and it's one of those where you can really, common sense, again a common sense to me is the answer to most of life's problems, short, tough, we don't have to move mountains none of this is brain surgery or rocket science but these are crucial steps we need to take. So this is quite a short area, policy area but vital. So as with the other videos I'll have a quick read through and add a little bit of commentary. So for Britain believes it is time to give motorists a break. Some of you may know I've only just become a motorist and I know I look way too old for that. I am way way too old for that. But already I can see how expensive it is, how difficult it can be to find parking and I do think it's time to give the ever-boredened motorist a break. It goes on to say motorists are ever more bored and owning a car is becoming ever more expensive parking prohibitively so and this is particularly the case in city centres. If you've ever tried to park in London, for example, you'll know. If you've ever tried to park in Birmingham, Manchester you'll know. But even in smallish towns it's getting ridiculous. I live in a fairly small town and you have to pay to go to the local supermarket. It gets a bit much. On the flip side of that of course public transport is often completely inefficient and overcrowded. Again, if you've ever been on the Tube in London at eight o'clock on a weekday morning you'll know what I mean when I say this is unhealthy. If you've ever travelled from Northern City to Northern City early in the morning you'll know what I'm talking about. This is unhealthy. We are crammed into overcrowded carts and shipped around the country like cargo. It's got to improve. We have a mental health crisis in this country and there are so many things adding to it and I'm sorry but this is one, our inability to get around with ease is having a profound effect on us. So public transport must be improved particularly across the nation in between cities and what I'm largely referring to there are Northern cities. Transport between the towns and cities of the north of England are mission honestly it's like undertaking a mission sometimes. All efforts must be made to improve services and keep commuter costs down. In 2018 rail bosses received a six percent pay rise while commuters were hit with a three percent increase in fares. I spoke about this at the beginning of the year because every January we see a rail increase and every January we hear about no corresponding improvement in services. This is part of the disempowerment of the consumer that I've been talking about quite a bit lately. It's disempowering to watch the money being taken out of your pockets almost like the Brexit vote isn't it. We went out and we voted and then they tried their best not to implement that vote you feel powerless. It's the same feeling you get as a consumer when money goes out of your pocket time and time and time again and you're getting nothing it back in return it's profoundly disempowering and it has to change. Britain's taxi service must also undergo radical improvement and this is a flagship policy for us. We introduced a taxi service policy last year which written by a taxi driver fantastic policy again none of this is rocket science. None of it requires us to move mountains. It's a simple stuff and you think to yourself there really are simple answers to these to these issues so why are we paying so many politicians so much money to not come up with the answers. Britain's taxi service must also undergo radical improvement with safety and the ability of drivers to make decent living at the forefront as priorities. British taxi drivers are being priced out of the of the market you know they're already artificially low the price the cost of a taxi because British drivers are trying to compete often with illegal immigrants which is profoundly unfair but also with generally with an oversupply of drivers licensing is an issue in the taxi driver who wrote this he tells us about strange numbers of licenses being given out in certain towns people get being given license in one town and then traveling to another town to to ply the trade there it needs regulation it really really does. So for Britain will increase the speed limit on motorways to 80 miles an hour fairly self-explanatory but move us on a little bit impose speeding punishments only if the driver exceeds the speed limit by five miles an hour or more that is you know speeding laws that are speeding fines etc not to raise money for for the local authority but they are to keep speed in check and it's pretty easy to go over by a mile or two. End HS2 and invest in railways. I will link to an article below that I did last week about HS2 so so so much money I mean they projected cost to more than double what they were when they started into billions and billions of pounds and it achieves so little we could use that money the money still you know the idea that it's a waste of money to stop now we would save so much more than we've already spent and as the projected cost keep going up we would also avoid that we could completely revitalize the railways across this country using the money we're wasting on HS2 it's pretty infuriating. Provide two hours free parking in town centres again none of this it requires us to move mountains but this can have a profound effect it can help small business local business it can help the sense of community people are more likely to meet up in the town centre for a cup of coffee if they have free parking these are small measures that can revitalize a high street so let's do them. Ensure all taxi drivers have been legally resident in the UK for at least two years this is an attempt to keep illegal immigration out of the taxi service. Ensure all taxi drivers hold a license from the UK or Republic of Ireland obtained by taking the full driving test in the UK or Republic of Ireland that's fairly simple to understand too we want a certain standard of driving ability. Ring fence, road tax for use in the improvement of roads only. Again we pay our taxes for the roads let's use them on the roads and to this to add to this these toll bridges should be abolished we're already paying for our roads and in a similar vein charge foreign vehicles for use on British roads. Ensure all taxi drivers satisfy a copy hints of DOB check formally CRB check this is a criminal records check going back 10 years and if they can't go back 10 years they can't be taxi drivers we want to know who is driving our taxis. Ensure all taxi drivers are able to speak English and pass a national standardised English test I think it's reasonable entirely entirely reasonable for people in the service industry in an English speaking country to speak English we must have the confidence that they can understand what we're saying it's it's quite difficult when you're speaking to someone who's providing you with a service and you're not you're not confident that they understand what you're saying or that you that they yeah that they understand what you're saying or that you understand what they're saying and you get this you get this problem you get this communication breakdown and communication is key it's crucial so we want our taxi drivers to speak English finally ensure that licensing fraud or any fraud committed by drivers in the establishment of a taxi service is punishable with a prison sentence and or deportation for non-British citizens again we require people to obey the law and as I said earlier Ian the chap who wrote this policy was telling us about a hugely disproportionate number of licenses being handed out in certain in certain local authorities which are then used by drivers to travel around the country I said on a Friday and Saturday night and take trade from drivers in that area the whole thing needs looking at and needs regulation and as I said none of this is is particularly difficult is a simple common sense measures that will have a huge impact and that is the identity of for Britain if you like these policies if you like any of our policies get on board for Britain dot UK better yet join us join us and let's take this country forward to common sense solutions it's all we need