While waiting for a promised report in support of Sadiq Khan’s tax grab on
the poor (who may rely on their old car to get to work), my mind wandered to who
else might be in support of restrictions on motoring. Not MPs and former Bexley
Councillors Louie French and Gareth Bacon obviously but what
about Bexley’s Council Leader and Boris Johnson’s most admired politician in
London? (His words not mine.)
The
Baroness, recently rewarded by her close friend, was a supporter of emission zones back in 2011 when the two of them
celebrated the extension of the Low Emission
Zone such that it outlawed small traders’ vans.
The situation was a little different back then of course, I recall that you
could not walk along Oxford Street without risking premature death from dozens of mainly static TfL buses belching black smoke.
Progress has been made and it is now rare to be aware of exhaust fumes while
walking Bexley’s streets because people are gradually replacing old cars with new as they can afford them.
The democratic freedom of choice way of which Sadiq Khan does not approve.
Note: Revised title from a long term BiB reader.