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29 November - Fighting back

Fight backI will try to get to Dave Putson’s Cost of Living meeting tomorrow as we seem to share the view that Sunak’s government should be brought down as soon as possible. We may differ in our preferred methods but I would like to know what he and his colleagues have in mind. The problem is Sunak but the solution is not Starmer.

It is a little puzzling that his guest speaker is a Consultant Paediatrician and I do hope that children’s health is not going to be linked with ULEZ via Khan’s dubious statistics.

My expression of doubt that ULEZ is a health issue and that it is in fact a Trojan Horse for road pricing was widely supported and only the usual anonymous Labour activists slavishly pushed the Mayor’s crooked Agenda.

I asked how it was that I lived through the pea soup London smogs, was driven around as a child in a smokey 1930’s Austin and later drove a polluting old banger myself. I walked central London’s streets for more than 30 years when you could barely breath for bus fumes but still manage to run for a bus when necessary.

The anonymous responses were “I have lived in Bexley for most of my life and have asthma” and “I have a friend who lived in Catford and died of asthma” which doesn’t prove anything other than **** happens.

I had a school friend who lived in rural France all his adult life and he died of asthma too.

The ULEZ advocates don’t really have an argument, we may have needed it in the 20th century but not any more with cleaner engines rapidly being usurped by electric motors.

 

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