THERE was a very good letter in last Thursday Debate Argus section by Neil Kelly with some interesting insight of the current Labour leader.

There is nothing worse than listening to untruths from any politician, especially when the very minute they say them, you realise, this isn't going to happen.

All credibility goes out the window.

There are however often good ideas from each of the political parties, especially on the run up to the elections, but they struggle to know where to stop with over promising what often loses them credibility.

Yesterday in radio interview, the Greens said they would borrow 90 billion pounds a year for 10 years to deliver their ideas.

That's a lot of borrowing, they say it will create 100s of thousands of new jobs to service all these new green incentives of ditching all gas boilers, insulating properties, installing heat pumps and solar panels etc, but I bet you a pound these won't be all new jobs, those already qualified for such work will earn a lot more as there will be a finite number of them, borrowed money will be sloshing around and many of those not already employed in some form or another, may not fancy it or it would take too long to get qualified and competent.

I expect we would be waiting an age to get anything done.

But, one of their ideas has got a lot of mileage in it to make a difference. Public transport.

Many people or companies need a daily use of a motor vehicle for a variety of reasons, location of employment, mobility, family, limited routes and destinations, load carrying etc.

But if public transport services were free, a whole lot of people would leave their cars parked up, especially the shorter journeys and make the effort to walk a bit further, carry a bit more.

So Labour's idea of privatisation of public transport along with the Greens ethos, I reckon has to seriously be considered.

Subsidies would be no good as the privately owned transport companies could then charge what they want, knowing there is a blank cheque book out there, courtesy of us taxpayers.

Little point, should we deter overseas persons having free transport by having an ID card system or possibly attract more tourists bringing more cash to the UK by having free, hopefully green as possible, transport provision.

Food for thought.

Gordon White, Portslade