@wood5y I love this bit about marples: "In later life, Marples was elevated to the peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud.". A Tory to the core!!
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@BackFromTheDud @wood5y
There were fundamental policy shifts made then - to subsidize roads but not rail - that have poisoned transport ever since. Marples wasn't the only Tory bent bastard, and Beeching certainly got used. How we undo autonormativity and the horrific identification of people with mecha-corpses is a really thorny problem because the shifts happened at such a low level. Very much like marketing cigarettes to women as "freedom sticks" (Edward Bernays).
