23 February (Part 3) - Site additions
The NHS is doomed
As promised, herewith some
of the literature available at yesterday’s Cost of living Crisis meeting. It
reveals that the Head Honcho of NHS England advised Tony Blair in 2002 and
perhaps worst of all, is Vice-President of the USA’s largest health insurance
company. The alleged “lack of transparency and honesty” goes well beyond Bexley Council now.
If people such as my 40 year old friend has to pay for his own scans and was
said to be within two hours of death when getting himself to A&E there is a Cost
of Living impact on both him and the country. The ruling politicians are for the
most part either incompetent or corrupt. One must suspect both.
Thinking about ULEZ
@tonyofsidcup’s thesis on ULEZ which has appeared on Bonkers in four parts - so far - over the last couple of months has been
reconstituted as a single page - if
you have sufficient time to read it all in date order. It is identical to the
individual blogs as they and the combined page all access the same source data.
Meanwhile the following letter from a Labour supporter to his party leader
appears here thanks to a pointer from Bexley Cabinet Member Sue Gower. A Welsh
MP subsequently tried to belittle and discredit Sue as one might expect from a nobody MP from Wales.
Dear Mr Starmer,
I’m writing to express my extreme concern at the proposed ULEZ extension by Sadiq Khan & to request your personal
intervention to stop this. The extension of ULEZ to outer London Boroughs is
totally unnecessary. It is simply a ‘cash grab’ by the London Mayor to help
refinance TFL. It will have a negligible impact on air quality but a massive
impact on people’s quality of life.
Astonishing that this man represents the Labour Party, a party I’ve proudly voted for over the last 40 years. The Labour
Party has history in supporting the working man yet Khan seems determined to
deliberately cause hardship to the very people he should be helping simply
because they’re an easy target without the means to fight back. I would like to
you to investigate several points:
Firstly, why was there no mention of the proposed expansion of ULEZ in his
manifesto before the last mayoral election? This is surely, even ignoring the above, morally unacceptable?
Secondly, Mr Khan promised he would honour the result of the ‘consultation’ regarding ULEZ. The result of
this ‘consultation’ is distinctly suspect with many accusations of suspicious
voting behaviour & counting irregularities. If the ‘consultation’ didn’t even
get a result until the end quarter of 2022, how are cameras already being erected by TFL in Jan/Feb 23?
Surely they would need to be a discussion on what kind of cameras they will be
and a bidding process for the contract to supply and fit them? I suspect Khan
had no intention of letting the ‘voteְ’ go against him and pre-empted
the contract approval. This is clearly unacceptable.
Thirdly, if the mayor genuinely believes that the affected vehicles are killing
people, why is it OK to keep killing people as long as we pay him £12·50 per day to do it?
Fourthly, the ban of sales of petrol and diesel cars comes into force in just a few short years.
So there is absolutely no need for this policy as there will be a natural
reduction of internal combustion engine vehicles over time. There are many more
points I could list including lack of public transport in outer London areas,
safety of people travelling after dark.
Crime rates rising fast (on this mayor’s watch!); the effects on people already
suffering the biggest cost of living crisis in a generation etc. However one
last point, and a very important one for the Labour Party. As I said at the
start, I’ve been a Labour voter all my life but I will not stand by and watch
this attack on the working class by a party meant to support them. And I suspect
there are an awful lot of people like me.
Use your authority to reign in this tinpot dictator ruling London.
Yours faithfully
Probably it is naive to expect
one tinpot globalist to rein in another.