The national media have reported that the Government may put back the date when new sales of oil/petrol cars are banned from 2030 to 2035. This is surely good news as it was never a rational policy and was potentially damaging to the motor vehicle production industry which is a significant contributor to UK GDP. But the motor industry is complaining about the lack of consistency which makes it difficult for them to plan ahead.
Meanwhile Sadiq Khan has complained that large sums of money have been spent on twitter campaigns against his ULEZ expansion. He provides no evidence of this which I suggest is extremely unlikely. The campaigns are a grass-roots movement by people affected by the extension and in some cases impoverished.
It also affects many people who live outside London and who are not eligible for the scrappage scheme but need to drive into London for work or other reasons such as visiting hospitals. There is now a new Parliamentary petition which you should sign and which reads: “Give everyone within the Home Counties a vote for the London Mayor”.
It is certainly the case that there is no justice when there is taxation with no representation which is what is effectively happening with the ULEZ as the Mayor penalises people who live outside the borders of his jurisdiction (the GLA area).
Do sign the petition here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/643187
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New Driver – Cull !
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Do you remember the excitement, exhilaration and relief when the driving test instructor said you had past your driving test? It was like a door being kicked open and suddenly you were confronted by a whole new world of anticipation, new found adventures, no longer pestering Mum & Dad or friends for ‘Lifts’, you was literally on the road to adulthood and freedom.
Soon all driving school new cars will be electric and once you have past the driving test, your first thoughts are to get your own affordable, easy to insure set of ‘Wheels’. So far so good, but passing your driving test in an electric vehicle (EV) only gives you the right to drive an ‘automatic’ vehicle, where-as the vehicle you can afford to purchase will be older ones with a manual gearbox!
So if you have pre-teen children or those in early teen years, then you better start saving the £25,000 plus, needed for a second hand EV or start to tell your children that this ‘Right-of-Passage’ of car ownership, is to be denied to them until well into adulthood!