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News and Comment August 2023

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21 August - Facing both ways

O'NeillIn only one week’s time the despicable Sadiq Khan will begin to issue licenses priced at only £12·50 which will allow the poorest members of society to kill up to 4,000 Londoners a year and be free of any fear of prosecution. Worse still he is intent on inflicting as much economic damage as possible on our capital city.

Maybe the 4,000 figure is somewhat overblown because as yesterday’s Telegraph revealed, Khan paid Imperial College £46,000 to invent that figure (out of a total payment of £802,000) which was unfortunately not enough money to get their report peer reviewed.

When an ICL professor indicated that the number might be fiction a series of emails from the GLA to the college asked them to mitigate the damage the admission had done to the case for ULEZ. A sham interview with Labour’s resident idiot MP, David Lammy could be organised in order to obscure the truth with another false headline.

The Greater London Authority Act 1999 is another of Tony Blair’s abominations. Too many of today’s problems can be traced back to that man but he did at least have the foresight to include Section 143 into his Act. The Secretary of State can put a stop to any GLA transport policy that is detrimental to any area outside London.

The fact that Mark Harper has not stopped the extension of ULEZ must indicate that the Conservative Government is in favour of it.

GLA Act 1999
I can think of no better reason for never voting Conservative ever again. Hypocrites and liars. Why did Bexley Council allocate £100,000 to fighting Khan in the High Court when all that was needed was more effective lobbying of their own Transport Secretary?

 

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