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News and Comment January 2023

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2 January - Van d’Lies

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.)

Tess and BoJo Mayor JohnsonThe 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.

 

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