 when it comes to the current ding-dong over whether cars are the work of Satan or a vital component of mobility, modernity and freedom , I'm in the latter camp. 3 Voters in Brighton have just kicked out the Green Party after becoming tired of the war on cars Credit: Alamy 3 The Sun's Give Us A Brake campaign speaks up for motorists against the unreasonable green lobby Credit: The Sun Like so much about ecology, the war against cars is intrinsically pleasure-hating. They'll be taking away the weekends next — after all, we didn't need them before industrialisation, when we were happily toiling for the lord of the manor seven days a week like good little serfs. Though ULEZ and LTN both sound like sexy new forms of electronic dance music , they are decidedly anti-fun — and very expensive. In a Sun poll in June, 85 per cent of us opined that the politicians setting these rules had no grasp of the financial pressures facing the general public. What we are witnessing now is not simply a war on cars — it's a war on the poor who dare to drive. The rich can easily pay to pollute, in the way the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages allowed the wealthy to pay for 'indulgences', a penalty which allegedly absolved the sheller-outer of sins. Just as wealthy Just Stop Oil protesters will continue to have Instagram feeds which make Around The World In Eighty Days look like a stroll in the park. The irony is that the wealthy don't need their vehicles while many working people do. Was there ever such a gap between those in power and those in financial peril as displayed in David Lammy's pronouncement earlier this year that tradespeople who carry a vast am){kind=link}
THE Sun’s Give Us A Brake campaign is a still small voice of common sense among the current cacophony of know-alls, nay-sayers and doom-mongers.
Though I’ve never bothered learning to drive (I’ve been married three times; why keep a dog and bark yourself?) when it comes to the current ding-dong over whether cars are the work of Satan or a vital component of mobility, modernity and freedom, I’m in the latter camp.
Like so much about ecology, the war against cars is intrinsically pleasure-hating.
They’ll be taking away the weekends next – after all, we didn’t need them before industrialisation, when we were happily toiling for the lord of the manor seven days a week like good little serfs.
Though ULEZ and LTN both sound like sexy new forms of electronic dance music, they are decidedly anti-fun – and very expensive.