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Professor John Robertson OBAThere’s not a single word of criticism in the BBC Wales report even when it mentions:
From Monday, single fares will cost £1 and a full day pass will cost £3 for those aged 16-21, which will later be extended to five to 15-year-olds from 3 November.
So £15 per week for a college student or apprentice travelling to work every day? Is that a big help?
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To get the cheaper fares, those eligible will need to apply for a mytravelpass, external via the Transport For Wales (TFW) website, verifying their age in order to access the discount, which is available until September 2026.
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No additional routes will be added but tickets will apply to any single journeys that start in Wales.
BBC Scotland clearly had a different editorial guidance for its writer with:
In para 3:
But many parents and young people have reported problems in applying for the new passes needed.
but then only this one:
Jackie Mackay from Drymen in Stirling said she was “losing the will to live” when trying to apply for passes for her two sons. She had to apply for two, as her sons were both under 16 at the time when she originally applied.
After a lengthy application process where she had to provide birth certificates, proof of address and scans of passports and Young Scot cards, she was told that the application had been rejected because her ID could not be verified. In the end, she gave up on the application for her older son – which was complicated by the fact it was close to his 16th birthday. She decided to wait and get him to apply himself after his birthday.
Applying for her 14-year-old took more than an hour, and it was 10 days after this had been sent off she was told her own ID had been rejected. “It was such a footer. They’ve both got Young Scot cards, with photos and their dates of birth on them – why is that not good enough?” she said.
How did they find her? Drymen is handy for BBC staff.
Then ‘analysis’ from David Henderson:
But Scotland’s bus service is patchy, at best. And year on year we’ve seen fewer buses operating across fewer routes. So, if the “right” to free bus travel is to mean anything, the network needs to improve.
New legislation aims to boost local bus services. But campaigners say Scotland needs to do more – by sweeping away the deregulated bus network. Some parts of Europe have gone further still. The French city of Dunkirk offers entirely free bus travel for everyone. For now, that’s off the agenda here. But some think it’s what Scotland should be aiming for.
Where are the sources for these claims? None. Some analysis?
To see how common this contrasting behaviour by BBC Wales and BBC Scotland is, see:
The full report is at:
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Never mind Labour in Wales as we all know their poor record as a devolved government…..how about Labour UK….which Labour in Wales & also Labour in Scotland are a part of…….as there is only one Labour party and that is the one that is the UK Labour party …………..(as we also know BBC Scotland’s poor record in pretending they are reporting (actual and real) news in Scotland).
The same Labour UK….as the new UK government that sits in a English parliament…….
Labour UK who are now showing, as the news UK government, how they are more focused upon REFORM (for the worse) within their UK than actually focused upon any real CHANGE (for the better) within their UK………
They, Labour UK, did not win the GE they stole it from the Tories and also from other parties by lying , deploying project fear and also with the help of a lot of rich people’s money (Wealthy donors)……
Just as Brexit was not won as it too was stolen via lies , deploying project Fear and also with the help of a lot of rich people’s money (Wealthy Donors)……
Same goes for the NO side winning, as in stealing, the result in the 2014 Scottish independence Referendum…………via Lies, Project Fear and with the help of a lot of rich people’s money (like a children’s author donating one million pounds to the NO side….as she knew then that her money not only talks it also helps people like her get her own way)……….
However let’s also not forget none of this would have not been possible without the huge help from a very much complicit UK media relentlessly platforming those (Labour UK , the then Brexit party & the Tory party) who won aka stole many GE’s, Brexit, the Scottish Referendum in 2014 and who are now helping Nigel Farage to dictate the immigration policy for the whole UK …as Labour UK as the UK government are now seemingly taking directions from and so stealing ideas from Farage’s party Reform UK to Change that which they, as a Labour UK party, once opposed……
However now apparently it is totally acceptable, indeed it is expected, for Labour UK as the new UK government to demonise those vulnerable people who seek refuge here in (Labour’s) UK State…. that is people , Asylum seekers, who have from countries that will most likely want to kill many of these people if they do go back….to “where they came from” ?
However that’s not Labour UK’s problem….their problem , they think, is that they need to match the disgusting rhetoric and atrocious policies of Reform UK and some Tories…..to keep voters who always vote the wrong way…onside….as in to keep them voting for this new version of Labour UK...that is now a mixture of the Tory party and also Reform UK party….
Just remember it is as much Labour UK and also the Tories as well , who are both as much to blame for what is happening now outside many Hotels housing Asylum seekers …….as it is also Farage and his pretend party Reform UK.…..both the Tories and Labour UK could have stopped all of this , in them both giving an opposing argument from Reform UK upon immigration…….instead they reinforced Farage’s disgusting racist attitude on immigration….and now look at what is happening…
Starmer’s beloved English flag now being used as a symbol for Hate and intolerance……….across some areas within England…..also another ludicrous action…..mini roundabouts pathetically having the white circle defaced with a red cross painted on it to signify the English flag…..extreme or what ?
I wonder if the anti Trans obsessed JKR thinks her one million pounds donation was money well spent………well I have to assume so….as have not heard her make any argument or opposition to what is happening now in her UK, mostly England………as in the same UK State that Scotland is definitely not BETTER TOGETHER with as part of her S*** UK State.
Breaking News: Baroness Ruth Davidson says the subject of Scottish independence , was and still is , as a subject, still the most divisive issue/subject ever to have happened within her UK State…….
#WheeshtForBrexit……and also #Wheesht for the now fast evolving Fascist embracing UK State and so also the fast evolving Racist UK State…..it all started in “the country”….as in in places within #England with some English people….that is the ones who only want to make England bleedin great AgaIN………
God Scottish independence seems very very appealing now…..for more people ….surely to God !!!!!
Liz S
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