26 November (Part 1) - The lowest form of wit
On the
day The Daily Telegraph reported that Kneel Starmer said his party is in favour of
cutting taxes for working people his right hand man in London decided to impose
a London wide tax on all the poorest drivers in the capital. But 8th October
1970 was not really one of the saddest days in the nation’s history was it? More
motoring taxes are a good thing aren’t they? My weekly 21 mile journey to North
London is fairly consistently done at an average 11 miles an hour.
A trip to Bexley on Thursday was much better at just over 12 m.p.h. It will be truly wonderful if Sadiq Khan drives the plebs who cannot
afford to buy a £32,000 electric car (since increased to £40,000 for few advantages
and some quite serious downgrades) off the road while the rail companies slash
services and the Mayor cuts bus routes.
The EV has cost next to nothing in fuel and my old banger would have burned its
way through £5,500 of fuel at current prices. Much cheaper to service too. (I
have never yet found the need to use a chargeable charger in four years.)
Obviously I am never going to get my money back but it is worth it just to see
the look on the faces of the lower classes as you leave them standing at the
traffic lights. What can be better than rubbing the noses of the poorest members
of society into the dirt and restricting people’s liberty and ability to work?
Good ’ol Khan; the Mayor is an absolute hero.
I never voted for him but he must love me nevertheless. What a nice man! It is a delightful irony that there
must be a fairly direct correlation between the dregs of motoring society and
the sort of idiots who vote for Labour Mayors and cannot afford a decent car like mine.
Such a richly deserved come uppance is something to be celebrated. Spending that
amount of money came about because certain circumstances convinced me that having savings was not worthwhile.
It has proved to be an immensely satisfying decision and it will be better still
when Khan allows me to drive in relative isolation.
You will know of course that the foregoing is total sarcasm. Khan is a liar.
What he announced yesterday has nothing to do with pollution but is a
precursor to his dream of a London wide congestion charge and an economic
disaster zone. if it was not exactly that the ANPR installation expenses could never be justified.
Khan claims that charging the poorest people £12·50 a day to move will save
4,000 lives a year. Modern internal combustion engines are at least ten times cleaner
than they were 20 years ago; some estimates put the figure close to 100.
I do not recall half a million pollution related deaths in London when I first
lived in Bexley and I am old enough to remember the London smogs seventy years ago.
My mother would walk in front of my dad’s car because you quite literally could
not see your hand in front of you.
It killed my pet guinea pig and according to records about 4,000 sickly people.
Exactly the same number as liar Khan claims that a few old cars cause.
They won’t be on the road for much longer so Khan is very obviously lying and he
is perfectly happy to see the air polluted so long as you pay the daily impost or buy a vintage car that runs on
choke most of the time. They are exempt.
Conservative Outer London boroughs should charge the liar punitive wayleaves on
the use of their lampposts and deny him the electricity to run his Chinese spy cameras.