The Transport Minister thinks Wales was right to impose 20 mph speed limits in many places. She has told Councils  in England itâs fine by her if they want to harass more drivers off the  roads with closures, narrowing, lane removals, lower speed limits, more bollards and painted regulations.
Yet she belongs to a government which says it wants to boost the economic  growth rate. Hasnât she realised how dependent businesses and their customers are on cars, vans and trucks? Doesnât she know every  extra  traffic jam from less roadspace cuts down how much work people can fit in to a day, puts up the costs of doing business and adds to CO 2 as vehicles keep their engines running for longer to cope with delays and go slows in lower gears.
You canât take the weekly shop home on a bike or get to most places by train. Roads are nationalised. Motorists are made to pay many times the cost of providing them with Vehicle excise Duty, VAT, Fuel Duty, road tolls, congestion charges and parking charges. The road provider regularly closes roads, allows utility providers to dig them up and put pipes and wires under main routes and fails to maintain them to decent standards. The owners of Heathrow do not close the runways to put in pipes and wires or to under take surface maintenance at busy times when people need to fly. Why does the state as road provider treat overcharged drivers so badly?
August 27, 2024
Agreed – regularly use A27/A24/A29 in South of England and have been frequently disenfranchised by the commencement of overnight closures at 20:00. This is ridiculously early and never used to be the case – stuff the road user, maintenance is more important is the attitude. Another post pandemic hangover.
August 27, 2024
The conservatives provided millions of pounds fot LTNs against the wishes of the people. You let Khant impose ULEZ against the wishes of the people and you mandated EVs against the wishes of the people.
Labour ate just continuing the destruction the tories began
August 27, 2024
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The foundations of all this were very carefully laid.
Health and Safety was probably used to bring about all this cordoning off.
And it has flowed seamlessly ever since. The agenda, not the traffic.
When we still had steam rollers they resurfaced the roads as traffic passed.
Asthmatic kids were encouraged to breathe in the tarry fumes!
Were people even allowed to impede the highways?
August 27, 2024
Good morning.
Don’t worry everyone, all will be solved when the government brings in road price charging. Cameras have already been installed and, when we next get a Conservative government, rest assured they will sell it off like they did the utilities as our road networks will have been monetized.
You’ve been warned.
August 27, 2024
Yes. It’s only a matter of time. They’ll start with the motorways.
August 27, 2024
Cars are hugely over taxes circa 40% of motoring costs are taxes. Trains on the other hand pay very little taxes and about 50% of your fair is subsidy. Despite this hugely rigged market circa 9 times as many miles are made by road as by rail. If they stopped the rigging subsidies and trains paid 40% tax too you ÂŁ30 fair for circa 30 miles would rise to about ÂŁ84 how many would choose the train then? Nearly ÂŁ3 a mile for one by train circa 5p a miles for one in a full car? Freedom choice and un-rigged markets please. In transport, broadcasting, energy, education, healthcare, housingâŠ
August 27, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg says he âregretsâ bowing to COVID-19 censorship pressure.
It is likely this suppression of the truth has helped to kill many people by killing a fair debate. It also kills any real democracy. As does the state propaganda outfit the BBC.
Wrong on Covid, Vaccines, Covid Origins, Net Zero, Energy…
August 27, 2024
It’s getting boring being “a conspiracy theorist” when we’re constantly proved right and the conspirators are forced to apologise đ
August 27, 2024
Mark,
You might be correct, we need to know why? I think the govt. used covid as a forerunner for compliance of an authoritarian state.
Speed limits will quicken economic demise of the country. If trains were the future they would be like drones- driverless! If a drone can be flown across the world with precision or a satellite across the universe no need for train drivers or their unions.
We need clean coal like never before. We need to wean off Chinese goods ASAP. We need iron foundaries ASAP, we need to increase home grown food production. We need to scrap wind machines and solar panels they are a waste of food productive land and harm sea life.
August 27, 2024
The Docklands Light Railway is driverless, so there should be few barriers for this tech to be spread elsewhere. I mean, they are pushing driverless cars !
August 27, 2024
It is about time a large illuminated sign is hung at the entrance to H of C:
‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’.
Perhaps it has been needed since about 2010?
August 27, 2024
Yes, there is no doubt about this. How else will vehicle use be taxed for use when we no longer buy petrol or diesel. Cameras on EVERY road? Think about that, along with a means to stop your vehicle remotely by Big Brother AI.
Perhaps the Terminator movies have our future more correct than fear.
August 27, 2024
@Peter Wood – the whole point of smart meters was so that the electricity we used can be discriminatory i.e top up your car with a different payment method to home use. Similar with charging stations. So road-pricing is just surveillance by the State on citizens movements.
Road pricing to raise tax wont quite work, simply the cost of infrastructure and administration goes way beyond the taxes it could earn. So road-pricing is just for citizen surveillance
August 27, 2024
@Mark B – road pricing isn’t needed at any level when the story is to just replace lost taxes from fuel duty, it could simply and cheaply be done through Vehicle-taxation being revised. Under the cloak of road pricing the only motive can be to monitor further the movements of the UK Citizen, and at great expense, i.e. real money expense – a greater part of any money raised will be in paying for the installing and monitoring equipment. In pure cost to return in actual tax will be minimal considerably less than the alternatives.
We mustn’t forget under the previous management, the so-called Conservative Government they increased the surveillance of the UK Citizen to such an extent that the citizen monitoring database in the UK is now the biggest in the World, Bigger than China’s bigger than all the other ‘Free’ peoples lumped together. So the real motive for road-pricing is in increased control – the fear of the people, by an out of control State
August 27, 2024
I wrote to my Labour MP prior to the election asking about âpay-per-mileâ and that my voting would be conditional on his answer, he told me that Labour wouldnât bring in pay-per-mile during the first parliament âŠ..I voted Reforming knowing that Labour would backtrack under Miliband/Starmer; I fear the backdoor policies of a communist state (with the help of the tories)
August 27, 2024
Vote out councils who impose these restrictions. Unfortunately we can’t because all parties are the same when it comes to net zero zealotry.
August 27, 2024
Doing a journey at 20mph creates more CO2 than doing the same journey at 50mph. In my area the last serious road accident was due to a pedestrian being hit by a cyclist (the 20mph doesn’t apply to them apparently). The 20mph zones are simply money raising schemes. It will be interesting to see how Reform do in the local elections next year.
August 27, 2024
Drive through London Boroughs – Lewisham and Southwark as examples…cyclists overtake cars.
August 27, 2024
Its never been about reducing co2, its about the UN, revenue collection and control
August 28, 2024
+1
August 27, 2024
On a positive note, the more people that feel the pain the better.
Some cures for chronic illnesses are quite unpleasant, but they need to happen in order to be rid of the illness at its root.
The Uni-Party has been a malaise for a long time.
August 27, 2024
That minister, who is so unaware of how things work, should not have been appointed in the first place: Unless she specialises as The Minister for Incompetence; or spoof truth Minister without Pinocchio.
August 27, 2024
Two words Sir JR. CASH COW.
August 27, 2024
I wish Sir John would stop pretending that the Not-a-Conservative-Government didn’t encourage, support and implement the same transport policies which Labour is proposing.
Or perhaps he’s forgotten Grant Shapps’ tenure during the Covid Tyranny, when he authorised similar policies….with no mandate?
The policies come straight from the WEF.
https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-urban-mobility-transitions/
Reply I wish readers would grasp this is not a Conservative site and could remember I disagreed with a lot of what the last government did.
August 27, 2024
To reply what did the last government do (or indeed the last 14 years of Tories do) that you approved of? Very little that I can see. They got everything wrong on lockdowns, Covid, the net harm vaccines, QE, the economy, energy, net zero, climate alarmism, tax levels, red tape, dire public services, the war on Car Divers, Landlords and the Self Employed…
August 27, 2024
The Net Harm Covid Vaccines and Net Zero the most appalling two things.
August 27, 2024
This reader does grasp that …. but it is a trifle annoying when there is no acknowledgement that this Labour Government is simply continuing the policies which were implemented under the last, so-called Conservative, one.
August 27, 2024
@Donna & @Reply – we cant get away from the fact that Labour is only following the Conservative lead from the seeds they have sown. Unlike the previous Tories, Starmer announced before the election he would follow WEF before Parliment. It is the rot in the HoC that needs addressing
August 27, 2024
You do adopt a âlook how terrible this Labour government isâ position – with the implication that a Tory government was, and would be, better.
I think itâs fair to say all your correspondents on here regard the last Tory government as the same, or even worse, than the Labour government.
August 27, 2024
John we are fond of your humanity combined with good sense but you are essentially a true blue which doesnt mean that you always have to align with any political party.
August 27, 2024
As we get awareness of the new governments ministers it is striking how lightweight and dim many of them are.
I wonder indeed when we are going to see the first actual measure likely to produce growth. There have been none so far, but plenty of the opposite.
August 27, 2024
Ideologues, especially socialist ideologues whose lifeblood is taxation, bans, and regulation, do not understand the law of unintended consequences and indeed never will.
August 27, 2024
Severely reducing the use of traditionally powered vehicles that work properly / are fit for purpose, is an integral part of the overarching Net Zero policy – introduced and championed by the Conservative Party in Government. Not one of the Tory leadership candidates is committed to ending Net Zero.
August 27, 2024
Damage caused to car tyres, wheels, and suspension, by poor road maintenance and repairs, simply adds to the costs.
The discomfort and frustration factor of now driving on poor and congested road surfaces, and it certainly is not a pleasure to drive any more.
Our roads are now a disgraceful condition, but instead of completing proper repairs we still seem able to spend a fortune on additional signage, camera’s, white lines, yellow lines, red lines, and all sorts of coloured tarmac and obstruction systems.
August 27, 2024
My local garage which has served us so well for what must be 30 years, last year replaced a front offside shock absorber as a result of not being able to see a pothole at night on the A40. Now a mixture of noises, tapping, clonking etc when on an even slightly unlevel surface, the A329 east towards Wokingham being a test case, was found to be an anti-roll bar link rod. More costs I could do without.
August 27, 2024
âYet she belongs to a government which says it wants to boost the economic growth rate.â
Every policy they push (save relaxing planning) is hugely anti-growth. Net zero, road blocking, intermittent renewables, higher taxes, abolition of non doms, VAT on private school free, more employment red tape, more nationalisation, wars on landlords, motorists, fossil fuel providers, the endless duff degreesâŠ
August 27, 2024
How does building a load of houses create growth? Other than growth in consumption? It certainly doesnât cause growth per capita.
Why do we need so many houses?
August 27, 2024
These duff degrees are encouraged by universities to pay lecturers wages and those who spend their lives reading worn out views of the world and still continue ,after reading this stuff, to feel that this somehow elevates them and gives them the right to bring most others down. How can anyone trust these post grads with attitudes such as this?Many people I come into contact with basic maths and physics are far more advanced in their thought processes than Oxbridge grads.
August 27, 2024
and now for a breath of fresh air….
Canada says it will impose a 100% tariff on imports of China-made electric vehicles (EV) after similar announcements by the US and European Union. The country also plans to impose a 25% duty on Chinese steel and aluminium.
Canada and its Western allies accuse China of subsidising its EV industry, giving its car makers an unfair advantage. China has called the move “trade protectionism” which “violates World Trade Organization rules”.
“We are transforming Canada’s automotive sector to be a global leader in building the vehicles of tomorrow, but actors like China have chosen to give themselves an unfair advantage in the global marketplace”, said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canada’s duties on Chinese EVs are due to come into effect on 1 October, while those on steel and aluminium will be implemented from 15 October.
At last nations are waking up to the economy reliance by stealth.
August 27, 2024
Mickey Taking, it is probably more likely that ‘top people’ in North America and Europe who understand the subject are terrified of the scope for higher peak demand if tens of millions more electric cars and vans are imported. Higher peak demand could make it hard to keep the electricity network stable in some countries. The UK, for instance, does not have 10 gigawatts or more of spare gas-fired power station capacity standing by, just in case it is needed (at times that the wind does not blow).
Note: Historically, peak demand has not been much a problem with oil-fuelled vehicles. There is a lot of liquid fuel storage distributed throughout the system, including the diesel or petrol in the vehicle fuel tanks themselves. This is impossible with electricity, because it is so difficult and expensive to store large quantities of it.
August 27, 2024
David :
10 GW will only provide power for around 1.4 million slow 7 KW ev chargers. We currently have 41 vehicles in the UK so only 1 in 30 evs could be on charge. But more importantly the local grids do not have the capacity to handle more than 1 in 7 houses with evs even with slow 7 KW chargers and staggered charging.
August 27, 2024
Toll roads are usually regarded as a good thing in history books.
They do however point to the usual desperation of authority to cash in on anything it can.
Imagine your usual footpath/bridlepath ( shortcut) being suddenly out of bounds and a bothersome toll being levied on a shortish part of your journeyâŠ.
And the Mail Coach loudly elbowing its way through free of charge, splattering you with mud..
OhâŠwe soon wonât have to imagine.
August 27, 2024
Toll roads of the past were built by those putting their own money in, with a return via the tolls. Today’s trunk roads and motorways have already been paid for in full via fuel duty and vehicle excise duty, both of which continue to pay for their maintenance.
August 27, 2024
…and cyclists yelling at us pedestrians ‘get off the b…dy pavement’
August 27, 2024
The tolls were levied by private people who, adjacent to roads, had to maintain them! That is until a householder could not keep pace with maintaining his section of the Great North Road and a Judge ruled that it was not relational to expect him to do something that was impossible.
Then householders were relieved but some hills remained – indeed on the Severn Bridges until very recently.
August 27, 2024
The head of a big supermarket chain has voiced intense concern about the possible effects of recent employment law changes.
He thinks that all businesses will be badly hit by minimum wage etc.
He is no doubt right.
So whence our âweekly shopâ?
August 27, 2024
+1 itâs catastrophic!
August 27, 2024
Every indication (and this was under the Tories too) is that the establishment hates its people.
Fine. I’m giving up everything including work. What is the point ?
August 27, 2024
Why do our parliament and councils attract so many eco-loons? But more surprisingly why do voters put them in a position of power? I have two UK holidays a year. Iâve now crossed off Wales as a destination due to its unfriendliness to tourists. Letâs hope the Welsh people embrace Reform over the next few years to oust these zealots who do so much damage to their economy.
August 27, 2024
It appears that ignorance is an essential qualification for Ministers in the new Labour government. From the PM clamping down on the “far right,’ with not a thought that ordinary people might be fed up with 7 million immigrants in 23 years. To Rachel Reeves, who is robbing pensioners with more to come, lying about ÂŁ22 billion shortfall, and then Ed, Net Zero, Millebrand in blissful ignorance of the damage he is doing. It will be a disaster and already is, but the shambles of the last Conservative government and the utter stupidity of the July 4th GE are part of the reason why we face another five years of incompetent government!
August 27, 2024
âYet she [the Transport Minister] belongs to a government which says it wants to boost the economic growth rate.â
This is of course a big lie, other than to boost government employment, tax and spending and immigration. We have elected a Communist government intent, as all such governments are, to destroy the economy in order to hold onto power as demonstrated by Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and Maduro etc and evidenced by the ramping up of Net Zero.
The PM was Secretary to the Communist Haldane Society, supported Jeremy Corbyn in two GEâs, a man who wanted us to become like Venezuela. and was quite happy to appoint Emily Thornberry (aka Lady Nugee), who praises the Communist regime of Cuba, as Shadow Attorney General. And as leader of the Opposition he took the knee to a large Communist faction that demanded the de-funding of the police.
So the introduction of 20 mph throughout the UK is just the beginning.
August 27, 2024
Add Kamala Harris to the mix – the Telegraph says she absolutely MUST win!
Thatâs a slam dunk.
August 27, 2024
âDoesnât she know every extra traffic jamâŠâŠâŠ.adds to CO 2 as vehicles keep their engines running for longer to cope with delays and go slows in lower gears.â
The Chief Scientific Adviser at the DoT, as a professor of human factors in engineering, may not know that CO2 is not a pollutant and that doubling CO2, whether natural or anthropogenic, which will take 170 years at the current rate of increase, will lead to only a negligible increase in the GHG effect because of a phenomenon known as IR saturation. The IPCC themselves calculate just a 1.2 degrees C increase (IPCC WG1 p95 footnote) for a doubling of CO2. But the Chief Scientific Adviser at the DESNZ, a professor in Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth Observation Science, should know this and be providing advice accordingly.
So the DoT and its Minister will know that increasing CO2 is not a problem. Only the gullible members of the public who still think the BBC and the Met Office tell the truth about the climate believe that increasing CO2 will cause CAGW.
August 27, 2024
I hope you read this and I can persuade you on my argument.
The linguist John Searle had the theory of a âSpeech Actâ which is that when you speak you are persuading the listener to do something. Google it for an explanation
So if we apply this theory to a lie, or false information or omitting information (basically lying) it means that people are trying to persuade people to do something.
So when you look at the false information about EV cars, climate change, deaths from covid, benefits from lockdowns or covid vaccines, Biden not being mentally infirm etc which have all been proven false, then itâs not about the facts that are misrepresented. Itâs not about separate lies. Itâs about the end goals which are to impose flimsy and poorly thought though ideas for financial gain, political gain, or any other reason – but not for the benefit of the people based on reliable facts.
So the point Iâm trying to persuade you on is that EV cars, Biden not being senile, Trump being supported by Russia, vaccines working, mass migration is always good etc are ALL THE SAME LIE, because they all have the same intention to get other people to do what the authoritarian political parties want you to do.
Literally, they are all the same lie even though the words differ.
August 27, 2024
The easy thing to point out which you missed is that these âproposalsâ all come from the same liars. The people so frightened of the truth that they will jail anyone who dares to speak the truth.
August 27, 2024
It all started with the introduction of safety-belts in 1981, when government & politicians realised how easy it was to dupe the people into excepting social-engineering measures âŠmove on a couple of decades and we have restrictive MOTs, differential vehicles taxation, subsidies on electric vehicles & chargers, vat & levy on fuel & insurance for environment factors, paying to travel, payment to cross bridges & tunnels, paying for parkingâŠ
In the next decade, it will be pay-per-mile (electronic tag in car), 10mph zones, permit to travel outside 15min cities, ration cards for fuel, helmets âŠand only authorised & sanctioned vehicle allowed
All because we allowed our politicians removed our the first freedom of wearing seat-belts, our freedom of choice not to wear seat-belts, under the culture of social-engineering and they know best
August 27, 2024
Ridiculous comment.
August 27, 2024
You are right about seat belts. I use a seat belt because on balance I believe they are a potential help. However, I should not be dragooned into using them. The government has no business forcing us to protect ourselves.
August 28, 2024
You should wear a seat belt if for no other reason that you could be held contributory negligent if injured by anotherâs fault and your injury could have been reduced or prevented by wearing said seat belt, look it up Frome case.
August 28, 2024
Froom v Butcher 1976 case.
August 28, 2024
Maybe we should be forced to wear knee & elbow pads to prevent injury, as slips trips & falls are the major ER hospital emergency ….why not hard hats
August 27, 2024
You are right about seat belts. I use a seat belt because on balance I believe they are a potential help. However, I should not be dragooned into using them. The government has no business forcing us to protect ourselves.
August 27, 2024
Harassing the road users, with unrealistic punitive financial punishments and the LTNâs is just a cop-out for neglect of duty, management ability of the imposing authority.
What has been suggested as a problem with speeding turns out to be no more than an increase in traffic density â more traffic, it must be speeding. What is seen as traffic rat-runs in nothing more than an increase in traffic density due to the main thoroughfare’s being inadequate and blocked from the load imposed by population growth. Authorities have not been spending on infrastructure projects needed just to cope with Government enforced population growth. Money has been spent on WOKE virtue signalling, cycle lanes when there are no cyclists, DEI departments to enhance discrimination at every level of society, and so on, but not what is simply just needed for society to progress and prosper. Infrastructure as a proportion of spend to the real situation is none existence.
I am sure that in Wales with their communist government the people have been pleased to see the rise in the use of the overcrowded underground in London, as something to aim for – while they are told to ‘walk’.
Always missed is Metro London is but a small part of the UK, the fact that there, there are services that fulfil most of the A to B requirements just donât exist in the rest of the Country – doesn’t make the one size fits all diktats help move things forward for everyone equally. Simples if there was an infrastructure meeting the requirement of the greater majority they would use it. As it stands it is only the car that fulfils that objective, making that just too expensive for the Minions enhances the costs to industry, reduces the employment pool, increases the benefits pressure. That in essence means Government wants to punish a whole country because they haven’t moved to London.
I bet the Minister and those creating this bonkers Group Think Authoritarian State, do not Walk, do not use Public Transport for 100% of all their Journeys. Another do as I command – not as I do.
August 27, 2024
I agree with you, I don’t understand the thinking these days on so many things. I think some people wish to go back to the dark ages, not the modern times.
I look forward to meeting you and hearing from you on Friday.
August 27, 2024
Like King Charles they want all the pleb to go back to the stone ages but they can continue with private jets, huge and many heated palaces, helicopters and Aston Martins run off cheese and wine (allegedly). Plus they will live off organic food Chairman Mao starvation for the poor I assume. Do as I say not as I do just like Stasi Starmer. Will his donated clothing allowance of ÂŁ18,000 be taxed as a benefit in kind? It would me for most people with Tax and NI on it. It is not specialist industrial clothing after all.
August 27, 2024
Is that all ÂŁ18K get you?
August 27, 2024
Simply, because it can. – It has the power.
LTN’s all fit in with the plans to stop us using cars and get us used to the idea of 15 minute villages.
The authorities do not care how much of a burden they impose on us because they feel the social re-engineering they have embarked on gives them greater control over us and limits our reach. It also means they are doing their bit for planet Earth by following WEF guidelines.
We all know how irrational the plans associated with netzero are but that won’t matter to those zealots that would ruin our economy and our lives. They will continue on this course no matter what!
August 27, 2024
They are trying to destroy our economy. Itâs all part of the global control agenda. What other explanation is possible? I donât think that all the puppets realise how they are being used, but for some decades now schools have only taught children how to parrot the current zeitgeist, not to think for themselves, so when they grow up they are malleable and compliant.
August 27, 2024
Clown World Alert
A bicycle race in Wales was disrupted because the support vehicles were not allowed (due to the 20 mph rule) to keep up with the riders!!
The uniparty hate, and are determined to destroy this country.
August 27, 2024
Ed
Yes interesting that it was the car which was the problem for the speed limit, not those who were riding the bikes at more than 20mph, it would seem cyclists can do as they like, as we have all seen at red traffic lights and road junctions.
August 27, 2024
It won’t be long before London roads will become the Russian ‘Zil roads’ – only available for the elite.
August 27, 2024
Car ownership will soon be for party members only, the proletariat will have to use public transport which will only be available in 15 minute ghettos. Clearly the government has no fear of the ballot box because unless Reform can make significant progress, we only have a Uni-Party option.
We will need a smartphone, with a government app, to use everything so that we can be tracked.
Apparently the Prime Minister will announce today that things will get worse, we already know that!
August 27, 2024
Communism in our times
August 27, 2024
The Minister, “Doesnât she know”? LOL. Well she might know the time and the day of the week but when it comes to actual transport affairs across the country, she clearly, has no clue.
In this respect, she’s rather similar to one Gordon Brown, who, as Labour Chancellor, hiked up fuel tax but had no idea of the cost of a gallon of petrol and thus no idea of the extra burden laid upon the “working classes”, who had to drive to their jobs.
Seems the Labour ministers really are unfit for their jobs, so what are their qualifications to carry such an important position?
Just being friendly with the PM just isn’t good enough, is it? No wonder we’re in trouble already.
Reply I was the MP who asked him the price of petrol just after he raised it. Got good headlines.
August 27, 2024
reply to reply…another I seem to remember was’ how much does a bottle of milk cost?’
Of course it will vary enormously but the answer might entail some scratching of head?
August 29, 2024
MT
I remember well John Prescott Bus, Taxi, Motorbike Lane on the M4 from Heathrow to London.
It caused Chaos at the time, as all lanes were eventually merged into two for the overhead section.
Cabinet Ministers in their chauffeur driven limos, were of course exempt.
August 27, 2024
It would seem that everything that impacts our lives is in the grip of the slimy tentacles of the cult members of the WEF and NZ religions.
No common sense being applied or any thought to the consequences of their decisions and actions confident that as always it is the poorest in society will suffer the most despite all their benefit payments.
No wonder the better-off are calling it a day and seeking new pastures where their hard-earned savings will not be ripped from their grasp to pay for all these climbdowns. All these pay awards and not any thoughts and plans about addressing the waste within the Civil and Public Services
August 27, 2024
Apologies Sir JR, but Carnival has to be mentioned here today. 250 arrests, several police assaulted, eight stabbings.
Surely all these thugs and criminals will be fast tracked to court today and tomorrow and all imprisoned by the weekend.
Or will two tier Keir and the Met. carry on only imprisoning white criminals.
If there’s no room in the prisons, they could release those incarcerated for putting hurty words on X (Twitter)
August 27, 2024
Estonia is proposing to âlet jail cellsâ to other European countries.
I suggest we get first dibs on them all.
August 28, 2024
European Commission :Economic Forecast for Estonia,15/5/24:
“Estonia is expected to remain in recession in 2024 amid weak export prospects and falling investment”
Every little helps!
August 27, 2024
âWhy does the state as road provider treat overcharged drivers so badly?â
Communist regimes force compliance of unnecessary laws for no reason than to humiliate people. We saw this during the Lockdowns. Eventually the humiliation is so complete that they can make people repeat outright lies such as that XY = XX or that we have a climate crisis and control becomes easy.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, diversity is meritocracy, XY is XX, Net Zero is prosperity.
August 27, 2024
Labour are showing themselves to be idealist, socialists! In their pursuit of ‘fairness’ and because they seem to hate the working classes, and the middle classes, they don’t care about practical inconveniences!
New Labour, courtesy of Blair, damaged the constitution with all the quangos..and continue to do so… they are clearly not in power for the benefit of the British people!
August 27, 2024
âDriving people off the roadsâ is the Net Zero Strategy plan to reduce the traffic for those elite âZilâ beings who will be allowed a private vehicle. In 2021, the Uniparty Transport Minister (Conservative branch), Trudy Harrison, MP said :
âOwning a car is outdated â20th-century thinkingâ and we must move to âshared mobilityâ to cut carbon emissionsâ.
All the research work into SAFs (Sustainable Aviation Fuels) is be able to provide a fuel to keep the elites flying to their meetings and holidays. Of course it will be expensive to ensure the plebs stay in their 15 minute cities.
August 27, 2024
Sunak’s 40 million helicopter contract cancelled.
August 27, 2024
Iâd suggest that we currently have a two-tier nation âŠbut along various lines
Indigenous vs Immigrant
Pubic Sector vs Private Sector
Muslim vs Christian
Leave vs Remain
Woke vs Non-Woke
Net-Zero vs Non-Net-Zero
Command Govt vs Freedom Govt
Police for the many vs Police for the few
Pro UN/EU vs Con UN/EU
August 27, 2024
You would think that the prospect of ÂŁ7k EVs would be welcomed with open arms by the Green brigade. How can they reject these âplanet savingâ devices?
August 28, 2024
Why does the State as road provider treat overcharged drivers so badly?
The short answer is because the State can, and the driver has to put up with it or give up their car which is impossible as it has become an essential part of everyone’s everyday life.
The State in the form of the Highways Authorities can cause mayhem on our roads by closing off essential road networks, usually at weekends and bank holidays, for whatever reason they like, with no retribution from car drivers.The police can do the same in the event of an accident or breakdown, with no interest it would seem in keeping traffic moving to avoid long tail backs;It seems that road contractors employed by the Highways Agency are being mis-managed to the extent they can do what they like on our roads, and take as long as they like to do it.
In addition the driver pays the price and gets penalised at every possible opportunity from average speed cameras,ZEZ/ULEZ, parking fines, congestion charging, speeding fines etc.
All this and the current state of our roads for which we pay taxes to repair, are in many areas akin to a third world country.
It seems ironic that the State has such a dislike of vehicles and their owners under the guise of not contributing to the net zero target and they punish drivers and car owners at every opportunity, and yet they form a vital and important part of our economy employing 1000’s of jobs, raise vast amounts of taxation and revenues, and if you took all the vehicles off the road the UK would grind to a halt within days, if not hours.
August 30, 2024
Here we go again. Taking the money but not the responsibility. It is easy to pass over to councils but some advice should go with it. We will have this tin pot councils making our lives much worse by some of their ridiculous ideas. I have experience of two councils, one which has a lot of business experienced people as councillors and one which has care assistants and such like as councillors. Nothing wrong with the latter but there is no business acumen there and the town centre shows this badly. Nothing but vap shops, ‘phone sellers, cheap food outlets and tattoo parlours. I have just heard that the latter council is increasing the market sellers fees for setting up by enormous amounts. One lady who has a small stall and pays ÂŁ20 is being requested to pay ÂŁ46 in a couple of months. Of course, she is not going to so we are being deprived of her services. This is what you get when you pass over responsibility to those who are not qualified to deal with it. Just one example of looking at how councils work or don’t work for the benefit of the residents who pay their allowances.