As I get older I see the same stories being rinsed and repeated for regular public consumption. This story from 2020 shows how bus and trains in the midlands have had similar measures in place for some time: https://www.wmca.org.uk/news/new-set-of-byelaws-to-clamp-down-on-anti-social-behaviour-on-the-buses/ and this one from April 2025 outlining the Lib Dem plans for £1000 fines and travel bans https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5g7v2qddo was so popular that the Tories recycled it and trumpted it as a great new idea in August 2025: https://news.sky.com/story/ban-passengers-playing-loud-music-on-public-transport-say-tories-13417519 None of them look at enforcing the rules that are already in place. There already exists bylaws to prohibit this kind of behaviour but zero thought about enforcing them.
Why bother enforcing when you can simply preach!
Our politicians seem to view laws as being like magic spells, which become unbreakabely binding once spoken.
for a lot of idiots they just didn’t know there is consequences
now they do
none of them look at enforcing the rules that are already in place
Which is nye impossible. The public transit around me can’t even enforce fare evasion, not saying they should, but it shows how hard it is to enforce something like this.
Laws like this require shame to enforce it, sort of like indoor smoking bans. The people on the bus have to say “stop blasting your tik tok” , if we do that enough, people will understand it’s unacceptable behavior.
Will I do it? Hell no, I’m not that confrontational, but the rest of us definitely should.
They pass the “good” laws leading up to elections. That’s their only purpose.
the punishment should be a week in the stockade in the town square where people pelt you with rotten fruit, but this is a good start
Nah, people just come by one hour at a time and blast their favorite Playlist.
Why?
Just have a public jukebox and people can pick songs that are played out into headphones around the offender.
[Cues up Cotton Eye Joe 300 times]
Nah, a couple of Ed Sheeran tracks and they’ll be screaming for mercy.
I listen to Scottish bagpipes voluntarily. I would love to help others discover how wonderful the genre is. Holding them in the stockade until Stockholm Syndrome kicks in will help make converts.
It’s precisely what this genre needs for a revival especially since it was banned in the Geneva convention for wartime use.
… and up next, “The Birdie Song” 300 times
I’m a Monster…
after that I’m putting on “Crazy Frog” for 300 plays.
If they were still conscious, I’d recommend 300 plays of Black Lace’s “Agadoo”.
Found Satan ☝️
Good news if it was actually enforced. I vote that bus drivers use the tannoys to say, “Hey, who’s that plonker on the upper deck playing AI slop? Turn it off, you muppet!” I don’t know what they should do when they get inevitably ignored.
(It’s nearly always AI slop revenge stories or bhangra (might not be bhangra exactly, I’m Indian but I don’t actually know the different genres. Desi stuff anyway.))
In my experience its constant scrolling tiktok. You get to hear the AI lady saying “watch what happ-” “when my br-” “pov you’re-” “askin-” “im in love with my new set of-” “when the-” “going to-”
I’m getting enraged thinking about it.
Oh my fucking god I feel like I had PTSD for a second reading you comment.
You should be fined £100 for making me read that
There shouldn’t be a ticket. It should be that the bus doesn’t move until the sound is turned off. It will sort itself out.
No, it won’t. I’ve been on buses and trains where this has happened. “We will not be moving until the freeloaders depart or the British Transport Police arrive.” Well, the people who don’t care they’re pissing off everyone around them already won’t care if it’s being pointed out, meanwhile all of the paying customers are being delayed, being made late for work, being made to miss the connections. You can’t use shame on the shameless.
They used to do this 10y+ ago on the buses in London, but they must have been trained to just ignore it now for safety reasons. The freeloaders just waltz on shamelessly and nothing happens. Last time I was on a bus and the driver stopped, the freeloader got up to the driver’s cab and threatened to stab him.
I don’t mean shame. I mean irritation. There’s a difference between freeloaders, which isn’t even something you can identify or give a shit about, and an asshole playing loud music or tiktok. Eventually someone will break the silence and/or break their nose.
Brakes autosync with baseline.
And just like that, the cost-of-living crisis and rampant societal inequality was solved forever.
The right sentiment but without enough inspectors and transport police to enforce it it’s practically meaningless.
That sucks, they aren’t doing anything wrong.
I mean i am just half joking, to me this is really a non issue. And also it usually isn’t rich people who do this.
making being in public unpleasant for others, especially in a confined space and especially when it’s 100% elective to be unpleasant, is bad.
Exactly. It’s a way to announce to everyone that you’re a selfish wanker. Some of us are tired or stressed and some of us have sensory issues. I’ve had to get off buses/tubes before because of people triggering my misophonia or being too loud when either chatting on their phone or playing audio out loud. It’s bad enough having to move to a different deck because of creeps making me feel unsafe, I don’t need this extra obstacle to using public transport too. Using headphones is just the considerate thing to do.
They don’t stand for this crap in Japan. You chat loudly on a phone, you get death stares from everyone.
Nah
May a thousand Bluetooth speakers bloom on public transportation.
Wow. Sounds like Burnham is already running out of ideas.
When they can’t fix the big problems, they focus on the small ones.
Ah yes, fix 14 years of Tory and EU austerity in 2 years… totally doable
Don’t you know.
The plan was Utopia.
And the timeframe was immediately.
EU austerity
Ah yes the EU, famously able to convince the UK to adopt the union’s monetary system.
Brits still delusionally blaming Europe for their own mistakes.
Lol, maybe you should learn about EU austerity policies that were enforced, while we in the EU
And while you’re at it, learn the difference between monetary systems and budgets.
Tool.
maybe you should learn about EU austerity policies that were enforced, while we in the EU
Maybe you should present your own list of these imaginary policies. As they exist inside your head it would be pretty hard for me to learn about them otherwise. The UK were never subject to the Troika austerity policies.
Or I guess you really believe you’ll be seeing that £350 million any day now.
Fucking Google it
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4952125/
The actual policies were called Six-Pack, Two-Pack, and the 2012 Fiscal Compact (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance),
Nowhere in the paper you link does it imply that the EU imposed austerity policies on the UK.
The Tories are the only ones responsible for the fiscal policies adopted after the recession.
The EU imposed policy on all EU members. I’ve listed them, perhaps you should acknowledge that there were EU wide policies?
What do you think happens when you put austerity measures in a single market, more or less economic activity?
“How dare we deal with minor problems while there major problems even if those major problems are also already being dealt with and we have the capacity to do both.”
EU, devolution and social care not big enough for you?
And electoral reform, and ending rough sleeping. What a lazy start.
