Labour think tank: FUEL DUTY SHOULD BE DOUBLED And there we were thinking that the war against the car was over. All through the Blair years New Labour did its best to demonise the car. The era of Two Wheels Good, Four Wheels Bad. The Congestion Charge (remember how we very nearly had one in Manchester too), draconian parking regulations, carpeting the country with speed cameras, cancelling 100 major road building projects, attempts to charge 4x4s £25 to enter London, speed bumps everywhere, Ken Livingstone famously saying that if I had my way Id ban all cars, the John Prescott Memorial bus lane on the M4 and of course all Alistair Darlings raft of hated fuel duty escalators. Hopefully historians will represent this as a period of rabid anti-car sentiment from the Left. And hopefully theyll see that it wasnt just a hared of cars, but of middle-class people who drive shiny ones. Looking back, I wonder how we let so many left-wing politicians get away with so much thinly-veiled class hatred.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:41:31 +0000
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