15 June (Part 2) - Sadiq Khan is a cheating bastard
Well
he is Labour; it goes with the territory and we shouldn’t expect anything better.
I pay all his punitive motoring taxes on Auto-pay and
it works well enough, certainly better than the system at Dartford which can
involve paying up front and then they confiscate your money if you don’t use the crossing often enough.
TfL simply tot up your usage and debit your bank account; easy except this time I have been short changed.
My car is eligible for the £10 a year concession on the Congestion Zone. Or at
least it was, the concession ends on 24th December. Khan’s Christmas present for
EV owners. My renewal was due on 11th June
and Khan has taken the full amount for what will be barely six months. No pro-rata
reduction. Hard luck if your renewal is due on 23rd December; you will get one day’s concession and not a year.
I sometimes play the fantasy game of choosing which individual one would
eliminate if some deity or other granted the power. There are some pretty
attractive targets out there but for me Khan always wins.