Sadiq Khan – the former stand-up comedian, discrimination solicitor as well as human rights advocate – is barely a home name across Britain. however he is the Mayor of an influential, densely populated urbanisation called London.
The labour guy is accountable for its nine million-plus residents, plus millions much more visitors as well as tens of millions of chauffeurs as well as public transfer individuals who commute into the capital. I’d suggest this simple Mayor is accountable for much more citizens as well as cars than the leaders of Scotland, northern Ireland as well as Wales put together. Scary, eh?
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What’s more, he’s the ringmaster of the £10billion-per-annum transfer for London (TfL) circus as well as its poor-performing buses, trains as well as bicycles. Khan detests the kind of motor vehicles 99 per cent of us drive. therefore the introduction, from October, of his additional £10-a-day ‘T-Charge’ which targets the most polluting vehicles as well as vans – primarily pre-2006 designs of which there are around 10,000 a day. add on the rip-off £11.50 ‘congestion’ tax that easily excludes his gross-polluting diesel buses, coaches or taxis as well as it’ll expense £21.50 a day to drive into London – around £5,000 a year. That’s legalised theft.
Khan is likewise dropping much more hints about banning diesels (but not his cherished buses) than any type of other leader. hope I’m wrong, however I suspect step one for Sadiq will be to scrap completely good diesels from London.
I reckon, even on his tod, Khan is the most significant as well as possibly only authentic risk to the ruling Tory Government. When the labour celebration hits rock bottom, who much better to sweep to the rescue? as well as might Khan then team up with the Tory-hating SNP, anti-car Lib Dems as well as environmentally friendly Greens, fronting a coalition that may just be electable?
And that’ll be his moment to ditch diesel vehicles nationwide. even now, Khan is requiring the government to pay motorists £3,500 to scrap their diesels. That’s a cheeky ‘demand’, however it’s sickeningly hypocritical, too.
How so? since numerous were purchased in great belief by motorists in the final months of the last labour Government, which motivated as well as subsidised consumers to junk existing petrol vehicles for high-MPG diesels. as well as assumption what? Khan was the labour transfer priest at the time. The London Mayor is now demonising as well as wanting to scrap diesel vehicles that he as well as his labour program assisted put on the road in the very first place.
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