By Jo Nova
Suddenly a lot of people in London are realizing what “Net Zero” really means
Nigel Farage at the Ulez protests in London
This week many Londoners are waking up to the impact of living in an Ultra Low Emission Zone as the £12.50 daily charge for unfashionable cars begins in the outer poorer suburbs.
Normally “climate change” costs are secretly buried in bills, hidden in rising costs and blamed on “old unreliable coal plants”, inflation or foreign wars. Your electricity bill does not have a category for “subsidies for your neighbors solar panels”. But the immense pain of NetZero can’t be disguised.
For a pensioner on £186 a week it could be as much as an £87 a week penalty for driving their car — or £4,500 a year. The Daily Mail is full of stories of livid and dismayed people who served in the Navy or worked fifty years, who can’t afford to look after older frail Aunts or shop in their usual stores now, or who will have to give up their cars. People are talking about the “end of Democracy”. The cameras are expected to bring in £2.5 million a day in ULEZ charges to City Hall. But shops inside the zone may also lose customers, and everyone, with and without cars will have to pay more for tradespeople and deliveries to cover the cost of their new car or Ulez fee.
Protests have reached a new level of anger and hooded vigilantes in masks carry long gardening clippers, or spray cans and lazers to disable cameras that record number plates for Ulez. In one photo the whole metal camera pole has been sheared by an electric saw of some sort. There chaos.
Interactive maps have sprung up to report where the cameras are, and help people “plan their trips”. The vigilante group called Blade Runners have vowed to remove or disable every ULEZ camera in London. Nearly nine out of ten cameras have been vandalized in South-east London.
The Transport for London website was overwhelmed with searches from people wondering if their car was compliant and they would have to pay just to drive on the roads their taxes and fees built. Some people have bought old historic cars to get around the fee, but apparently a lot of people hadn’t thought much about what was coming. Sadiq Khan probably didn’t mention this in his election campaign. Presumably there are others in London who will get a nasty surprise bill in the mail.
As Nigel Farage says: “I’ve never seen people so angry about this new tax on working people. “And people are not just furious at Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, they’re angry at the Prime Minister and the conservatives for not stopping the scheme.
Politicians all over the West should be watching London
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The shock win 6 weeks ago of an anti-Ulez candidate in Boris Johnson’s old seat rattled both sides of politics to the point where even Sir Keir Starmer the Labor Opposition leader has been pressuring Sadiq Khan to slow down. The Labor Party appeared to suddenly recognize that their green flank was exposed and vulnerable to any conservatives who spoke up for car owners, which, of course, might win them millions of votes.
The only way the unpopular green policies win elections is when the costs are hidden and the plans are described in vaporous motherware lines of clean air and fluffy koalas. But the Ulez fees are a full frontal attack on lifestyles, especially of the poor.
With a first-past-the -post voting system in the UK both sides of politics are very vulnerable to splinter factions that break away on key topics and fracture their vote. The only way unpopular green schemes win elections is when both sides of “the Uniparty” have the same policy.
People all over the West should be watching London, because if Sadiq Khan gets away with this, it will happen everywhere.
Katie Hopkins is appalled that people are vandalizing cameras with filling foam from ToolStation for £6.69:
One Tory MP — Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said he backs the “Blade Runners”. The former cabinet minister said today he was ‘happy’ for the residents of his Chingford and Woodford Green constituency to destroy cameras because they have been ‘lied to’.
Vandalism is of course a bad thing. The worst vandals are the ones who run for elections without telling the voters they plan to take their cars, their jobs, their lifestyle and toss them in the Thames. Those vandals ransack whole democracies with deceit.
It would be so much better wouldn’t it, if the PM held a referendum on Net Zero and let the people decide?
h/t David Maddison, and Topher. I’ll be talking about this on The Aussie Wire with Topher.
UPDATE: One scaffolder hit with £11,500 in similar penalties took City Hall to the court and won a legal verdict this week that the Lez signs (Low Emission Zone) are not lawful.
He said: “The Road Traffic Act states if there is a risk that motorists are going to be charged, you have to let them know. But the low emission zone signs just say ‘Lez’ or ‘Ulez Zone’. They don’t make it clear about charges.” He added of the signs: “Just saying you are in a zone is, by itself, meaningless.” “They need to tell you not just where you are but what happens, in other words a charge could be incurred.
— The Sun.
The legal win is not necessarily binding though, but is deemed “persuasive” in court.
Idiots are allowed to glue themselves to priceless paintings and others can hold up coal trains and loaders but when brought before court are told by the judge that their actions were wrong but quite understandable and therefore would receive no penalty. In similar vein these “vandals” that are spraying the cameras with paint bought from Toolstation for 6.69 pounds are providing a public service.
I think this ULEZ might be a step too far and will be used by smart politicians to send the parasites in the Conservative and Labour parties to their retirement. Hopefully this ridiculous law will be overturned and those responsible for it cast out. It may also be the catalyst for permanent change.
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and nobody ask the question: Is the judiciary fit for purpose….
who makes the Law
who MODIFIES the Law
SO what IS the law ?
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Interesting perspective to be examined.
Take it apart piece by piece and expose whoever is not standing up for the people.
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It could be a ‘Poll Tax’ event and generate similar heightened rage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4QQN2aqeKA
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Life for motorists in the UK is becoming intolerable as London Mayor Sadiq Khan brings in ULEZ restrictions and other councils around the country are enforcing travel restrictions and 20 mph speed limits. And of course there is the the push to ban all petrol cars by 2030.
Glad I don’t live there any more . .
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Geoffrey Williams says: Glad I don’t live there any more …
But Australia is only one step behind Britain. Why? Because we have few if any ‘conservative’ politicians speaking against the push to make private transport unaffordable, or any of the many other authoritarian measures that the ruling class have in mind for us — debanking, programmable digital currencies, a cashless economy, travel restrictions, ‘climate’ lockdowns, carbon dioxide quotas, social credit scores, penalties for ‘disinformation’ and for expressing views that depart from ‘approved’ narratives, forced use of public transport, GPS tracking for the few who can still afford cars, facial recognition surveillance in public spaces, and … what have I missed?
Regarding ULEZ, here are a couple of matters of note:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1794058/angela-rayner-ulez-labour-sadiq-khan
Ms Rayner told Sky News: “You have got to remember that this [ULEZ] is coming to towns and cities across the UK.”
And:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12456717/ULEZ-expansion-destroy-cameras-Sadiq-Khan.html
Husband and wife Tom and Carolyn Dare were among the crowd outside Downing Street on Tuesday to protest against Ulez. Ms Dare said she wanted Rishi Sunak to ‘overrule Sadiq Khan’.
‘He has got the power. They can get rid of a Prime Minister, anytime they like,’ she said, adding she felt the Conservatives were using the issue to fight Labour and to help them win the next election ‘but they are hurting a lot of people’.
And ULEZ seems to have pushed immigration issues off the front pages.
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DD
Albo completely lied about bringing down power bills by $275 per year. He repeated it endlessly, yet we all know he simply had no intention of getting any reductions to escalating bills, and has made no effort at all to actually deal with the cause of this robbery – useless subsidy payments and net zero stupidity.
But I see few in the press pushing this one. No, too interested in pushing another complete disaster, the Voice.
Unfortunately too many Australians have outsourced all their thinking to completely incompetent pollies and bureaucrats. It will all have to come crashing down before most Australians realise the evil madness they have allowed to happen.
This news from London is actually very good news, as it will shock many Londoners out of their complacency, and I hope they destroy every camera they can find, and besiege their councillors offices demanding these useless representatives actually start representing their constituents, or resign.
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Albo didnt lie, he did reduce the bills by $275, they would be that much higher than they are,
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Every move they make like wokeness,men competing against women in physical sports
,Global warming propaganda,gender mutilation of children,all the 2+2 is 5 propositions no matter how insane is geared to a dictatorship run by a hand full of Hitlers.
These people are sociopaths.
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These laws that hurt poor people the most are a disgrace and hopefully the vile Khan idiot will be voted out of office ASAP
And all of this comes at the greatest period of Human flourishing in our entire history and yet these Malthusian imbeciles are lying to the voters and supported by so called scientists, pollies and the clueless MSM etc.
Why can’t someone get the MSM to publish all of the honest data since 1950 and let the voters decide whether they think we are facing a crisis or their so called EXISTENTIAL THREAT?
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AGAIN here’s the OWI Data Human development index since 1870 and you can choose since 1900 or 1950 to easily prove they are lying to us.
The graph lines are active so you can easily see the Human FLOURISHING over the last 150 years. Note Aussies are at the top.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-development-index-escosura?country=GBR~USA~KOR~IND~CHN~BRA~CPV~AUS~ZAF
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Neville, you may know that South Korea has not only nuclear power stations but sells the technology (4 units in UAEs). They import coal from China, Australia and Indonesia. They were the second country in the world after Japan to reach cement consumption over 1tonne/capita (now acheived by Vietnam and China). Think of the cars such as Hyundai and Kia made there using steel from their own steel works. Think of electical manufactures like Samsung and Lucky Goldstar. South Korea does not have solar and wind farms. They have engineers who understand engineering principles such as heat transfer to produce goods (including planes and pharmaceuticals) for the benefit of mankind. That is why they are a leading country in your graph. Do not understand why Australia should be on the graph . The country wss on top around 1901 but is now about 20 below the top.
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I don’t believe the demographics and voting impropriety that got Khan elected in the first place will ever allow him to be voted out.
And of course, like all Leftists, Khan is strongly opposed to voter ID claiming it “will make it harder for minority groups to vote”.
But like all Leftists, he never explains why it supposedly makes it harder for them to vote.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/29/sadiq-khan-slams-disgraceful-plan-to-force-voters-to-show-photo-id-16363062/
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David you’re probably correct, but I wish everyone understood the Malthusian lies that are told to us over and over again.
The Human race has pulled off the greatest Mission Impossible in our history..
We’ve increased our population by 5.5 billion since 1950 and yet we’re rapidly improving our lives and indeed we’ve flourished over tha last 70 + years.
And the UN data projections also expect this to continue to 2100.
So where’s their so called EXISTENTIAL THREAT?
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It’s racist to suggest that minorities are less intelligent than privileged white voters. But it’s not racist to suggest that minorities are too stupid to obtain any form of ID. Go figure.
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The ENTIRE idea is to smash the most vulnerable and then start a campaign to “lead them to the light on the hill”; that hill being a mountain of corpses of the “non-compliant”.
Just watch.
Or do something else.
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A referendum? Not after Brexit, as they might not get the ‘right’ answer.
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A referendum? Elections? From afar, I wonder if Sadiq Khan has that much time.
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What’s unfolding here goes well beyond Ulez. This is the first big taste of green utopia and the social credit system at work. If you don’t comply, you get severely punished. If Ulez is allowed to persist, then this war is lost and the same punishment regime will extend to all walks of life, including our personal spending habits. I don’t support civil disobedience, but that’s now the only way left to preserve democracy and prevent the totalitarians from destroying our civilisation. The challenge that lies ahead is bigger than the last two world wars and cannot be understated.
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Some great nations only exist today due to ‘civil disobedience.’
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Yes, Revolution is the ultimate form if civil,disobedience.
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Civil Disobedience … when “fiery, but MOSTLY peaceful” … like as opposed to ‘Insurrection’, which is NOT when a single political party ‘colludes’ with intelligence agencies, media conglomerates, and Public Health Security organizations in creation of false or exaggerated threat narratives to remove a POTUS.
We here in the US, have a Super Ray Gun Viable Opposition Destroyer.
It will factionalize and turn to ash any mounting peasant grass roots organizing like a Maui wildfire …
our POTUS rolled it out again just recently …
white supremacists have replaced Jihadists as Americas “most lethal terrorist threat”.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-says-white-supremacists-replaced-020801683.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMsx0G6sS8YC53o6D6wGvMn9GE8lLlHqbSTdqyLVjMe-zZYAu5SjkWUuD1bW_GR_PRG7eJ6uJPKDOlrd0T12x7FW-xqf7PhS_zNcl_Ia_QpLGYUwe0qwD7yTWEGsk81Mf2KiwiNsA3bJuWLIL85IGoG72V6HbhFOen_kfe-c_tsF
I guess we can look forward to a twenty year inconclusive war on corn and dairy farmers in the Red states of America.
Carbon Pushers, they should be raising bugs.
Wonder which state they’ll liberate first?
David, aren’t you in WV?
Hold on, you’ll be rescued soon.
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Some really atrocious ones too for that matter…but then again, we are willing to sacrifice just about ANYTHING on the alter of looking fashionable…
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The rate and frequency of scares and scams is increasing . We are approaching “critical mass” when enough people are aware of the peril , but a lot of people have given up doing anything and see the situation as hopeless . The situation in the UK is Orwellian. Somethings going to give and it’s just getting started .
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My worry Old Goat, and I am not advocating it, is I can see it become very very violent.
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Time for the Blade Runners to shove the nozzle of filling foam available from Tool Station @ £6.99, up the ULEZ boss’s #@&.
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Just for reference:
https://www.toolstation.com/soudal-genius-gun-gap-filling-expanding-foam/p15361
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I have often wondered what it would take to wake up the English. Perhaps I am finding out.
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Way back in that unread history –
Rudyard Kipling “THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON”
http://www.europeanamericansunited.org/school1/Fiction/kipling/awakened.htm
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And
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_runnymede.htm
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When are Australians going to wake up?
This is happening now in Melbourne and Sydney with an ever increasing amount of bike lanes, less car parking, street closures and higher car park & parking metering fees.
Melbourne and Sydney are C40 Cities.
https://www.c40.org/cities/
C40 is a global network of mayors representing one-quarter of the global economy. It includes almost 100 cities plus 1,143 cities and local governments that have joined C40’s ‘Cities Race to Zero’.
The following industry’s; Food, Construction, Clothing, Vehicles, Aviation, Electronics, all need to be made aware of what members of the C40 organisation have planned for them.
Welcome to the New World Order, drive less, own less, consume less, fly less, build less, eat less.
https://www.c40.org/news/new-research-shows-how-urban-consumption-drives-global-emissions/
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Yes, and guess who is the chair of the C40 group. None other than Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London.
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Pretty soon you’ll need a permit and photo-ID to buy spray paint or expanding foam, or maybe it’ll be banned altogether.
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They’ll have digital money, and control who can use it on what.
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Unless you use cash, they can already track your purchases. And, note how many cachpoints and tills have CCTV.
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At least the Poms have realised they are being royally screwed unlike the netflix generation here, but it’s coming , be assured of that.
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Hmmmm….
I wonder if you could make a fake license plate for those cameras -with the tag number of your favorite (sic) Politician? The tootle around London going by as many cameras as possible. . .
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I wonder if you could make and sell them? By the thousands.
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I am told that in the UK you get a license plate printed / stamped for your trailer to match your car so as long as the person printing the plates can be persuaded to print the right number how the mental pohmie cops will react is another issue
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There are already stickers and faux plates with FCK ULEZ on them.
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One guy registered his vehicle in Khans name, then he gets the fines.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.- HL Mencken, A Few Pages of Notes, Jan 1915
Appears that Londoners who elected Kahn are about to get it good and hard. Sadly, a bunch of us in the US are on the same track. Good luck, guys. Cheers
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Once you see a sign they should also provide enough space or a route to turn around, which knowing the Medieval layout of London streets would not be so easy. It’s too bad the city fathers didn’t adopt the street plan for the rebuilding of London devised by when Sir Christopher Wren and John Evelyn after the Great Fire.
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David
A john Evelyn fan? You will enjoy this on 17th Century Climate change
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/30/in-1660-self-denial-was-all-the-rage-to-stop-extreme-weather-sounds-familiar/
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Could this be the first visible sign that “the men”are nearing the limit???? The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.” – Author Unkown
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An elegant description of revolution, Destroyer.
“Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
They just wanted to be left alone to farm.
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The only question left to answer.?? How far away is the end of their rope?
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This insanity will just motivate Australian politicians and public serpents to do the same in Australian cities.
They are already signed up to 15/20 min cities/neighbourhoods.
E.g. here is an official government link:
But then we are told it’s not true, it’s a “conspiracy theory”.
Cities are also signed up to the C40 climate action plan, e.g. Sydney and Melbourne and in New Zimbabwe, Auckland.
Conservative view of 15 min cities:
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The idea of 15-minute cities can be elaborated into 1-hour counties. These counties will take at most an hour to drive through. There will be strict border controls at county lines. This arrangement should finally boost the acceptance of electric vehicles.
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“Fifteen-Minute City”?
NewSpeak for “Medieval Village”.
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Yep. And we are the serfs.
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Check out the Soros funded C40 group. [https://www.c40.org]
It impacts you (Oz, NZ, USA, UK, etc)
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AGAIN here’s the OWI Data deaths from all Natural disasters since 1900. And NOTE deaths from extreme weather events have also shown a huge decline as well and particularly droughts and floods.
And note the huge decline in deaths over the last 100 years while our Human population has increased by 5.5 billion since 1950.
IOW our Climate has been very benign over that period of time when we should have been more vulnerable.
So where’s their DANGEROUS Climate change and Human EXISTENTIAL THREAT?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/decadal-average-death-rates-from-natural-disasters
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This seems appropriate here, thank you Mr Kipling. “It wakes the stubborn Englishry”
At Runnymede, at Runnymede
What say the reeds at Runnymede?
The lissom reeds that give and take,
That bend so far, but never break,
They keep the sleepy Thames awake
With tales of John at Runnymede.
At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Oh, hear the reeds at Runnymede:–
“You mustn’t sell, delay, deny,
A freeman’s right or liberty.
It wakes the stubborn Englishry,
We saw ’em roused at Runnymede!
“When through our ranks the Barons came,
With little thought of praise or blame,
But resolute to play the game,
They lumbered up to Runnymede;
And there they launched in solid time
The first attack on Right Divine–
The curt, uncompromising ‘Sign!’
That settled John at Runnymede.
“At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Your rights were won at Runnymede!
No freeman shall be fined or bound,
Or dispossessed of freehold ground,
Except by lawful judgment found
And passed upon him by his peers.
Forget not, after all these years,
The Charter Signed at Runnymede.”
And still when Mob or Monarch lays
Too rude a hand on English ways,
The whisper wakes, the shudder plays,
Across the reeds at Runnymede.
And Thames, that knows the moods of kings,
And crowds and priests and suchlike things,
Rolls deep and dreadful as he brings
Their warning down from Runnymede!
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Kipling also wrote this:
“My son,” said the Norman Baron, “I am dying, and you will be heir
To all the broad acres in England that William gave me for share
When he conquered the Saxon at Hastings, and a nice little handful it is.
But before you go over to rule it I want you to understand this:–
“The Saxon is not like us Normans. His manners are not so polite.
But he never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right.
When he stands like an ox in the furrow – with his sullen set eyes on your own,
And grumbles, ‘This isn’t fair dealing,’ my son, leave the Saxon alone.
“You can horsewhip your Gascony archers, or torture your Picardy spears;
But don’t try that game on the Saxon; you’ll have the whole brood round your ears.
From the richest old Thane in the county to the poorest chained serf in the field,
They’ll be at you and on you like hornets, and, if you are wise, you will yield.
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The Green Paint Commandos are back. This time for enemy ULEZ cameras. The story goes that in WW2 these heroes patrolled for U-boats in British sea lanes. Their only weapon was a can of green paint. When a U-boat periscope was sighted these intrepid commandos would paddle over to the periscope blind side and slosh sticky green paint over the lens at the front. The hapless U-boat kapitan, sensing only green water and no ships would order the crew to rise the boat to the surface. But because of the green paint it seemed that the boat was still submerged so das boot kept rising. When it was high enough in the air it was shot down with anti-aircraft fire.
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Absolutely, remove the Zone, and while we are at it make it mandatory to use coal for heating, like in the good old days.
Obviously Boris, when he proposed it in 2015 (to be law in 2020, so a bit of slippage), this was on some green ideology about clean air or something.
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Coal heating wasn’t good because of delivery logistics, mess and pollution of old style coal heaters.
It’s better to burn the coal at a remote location with appropriate sulphur scrubbers and other emissions controls, turn it into electricity and then use that to heat at the desired place.
Or better yet, use natural gas, piped directly to the consumer.
You’re on the right track though, Peter. Well done.
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Speaking of delivery logistics – it wasn’t a problem when I was a strip of a lad greeting the coal man at the back gate as he hoisted the giant hessian sacks full of coal on his shoulders and carried them cheerfully down the lane behind the terraces and dumped them, one after the other in the victorian coal bunkers at the rear of all the houses. Yes, men were men, then.
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The master of stupid extremes. How rational.
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The only thing worse than a standing army is a sitting bureaucracy, , ,
– Red Edwards
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Forget the historic cars to beat ULEZ. Go back to horse drawn vehicles – before motor cars the streets of London were polluted with horse emissions. When the Tower Bridge was raised for Thames shipping there were rivers of #iss and manure flowing off the ramparts!
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Yes Stanley, a report in the SMH in 1884, declared that the amount of horse manure in the streets of Sydney by 1924 would outweigh the capacity of the populace to remove it.
So they invented the ICE combustion engine powered vehicles. The Urban elites have a lot to thank the ICE and the fossil fuel industry for. If not for that the whole of Sydney would smell like a stable and 6” stilettos would not keep you above street level.
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Again, that is filling foam from Tool Station for 6.99 pounds.
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Some pertinent thoughts:
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington.
A government, which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – Bernard Shaw
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed 1886.
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. – Robert Heinlein
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis
“Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit.” – P. J. O’Rourke
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire.
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The road sign is there for your information and it must be important information for you to know or it would not be there. Right?
So it is beholden on you to stop, read carefully and consider the contents of the sign. Any reference to statute will need to be searched there and then for you to understand any implications of the sign.
This may inconvenience those behind you but they will need to also stop to read the sign carefully.
If you cannot follow or agree to the sign’s instructions you are obliged to go no further.
Turn around and go back whence you came!
This may cause further inconvenience to other road users but c’est la vie.
You must, of course do this for every sign every time you encounter one. How do you know it is unchanged unless you do stop and read it every time.
Happy motoring.
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Signs with no details are like laws that only mean something if you pay a lawyer $500 an hour to explain them.
They are all the enemy of free people.
It should be against the law to put up signage distracting drivers, forcing them to slow down or stop and “use the internet” to understand the sign.
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Why are these mythical pensioners driving into the city centre every day?
ULEZ is about reducing air pollution and congestion, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is merely a side-effect.
The whole point is to encourage public transport, which exists and is capable of economies of scale.
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These mythical pensioners are not going near the city centre — they’re just popping in to the Chemist 15 minutes from home and paying $25 AU for the 10km round trip. What part of “outer London” doesn’t make sense to you?
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The ‘pensioner’ pays £12.50 per day only if their car doesn’t meet EURO4 standard. That is not a difficult standard to meet, post vehicles from 2006 onward comply. The money raised from the ULEZ is invested in the transport network and other measures to reduce air pollution in London.
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Ah yes, the ‘most vehicles post 2006’ chestnut. Please explain why one of my workforce’s 2010 VW Passat (same engine in the very, very popular Golf) does not comply? A 13-year old car is in the right age group for lower-paid workers in the capital, if you think they have the savings to just go out and change it you are in cloud-cuckoo land.
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Because in countries where Euro standards don’t apply, the car companies install cheaper dirtier engines. Ausralia and NZ are dumping grounds for non compliant cars and trucks.
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You mean people won’t willingly buy the eqpt? It has to be mandated?
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Simon, air quality in London is not poor, but the citizens will be.
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Notice how we quickly tacked away from the city centre statement and went to vehicle compliance?
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Jo was not clear whether she was talking about the congestion charges or the emissions standards. They are different, congestion charges only apply to the CBD.
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If communism works for you, try North Korea. We don’t need your vote!
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Simon
Its clear you have never been in a situation where you just don’t have the money to get a new car. I have been there when we had kids and we were slowly going backwards, despite everything we could do. We were saved as my wife managed to get a part time job. But many pensioners literally have nothing when they have paid their bills, and are not in a position to get a job.
Expecting such people to magically get thousands of pounds to purchase a newer vehicle shows you (and most on the Left) have no idea how many people live.
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And, new and second hand ICE cars now cost a lot more because of the green nonsense. EVs are unaffordable for ‘normal’ people plus thare are no charging points – see how it works ?
The ULEZ C40 group don’t give a toss about pollution, they just want to reduce cars for the public and make our lives miserable.
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But, but, various reports (the ones not surpressed by Khan) have shown that ULEZ has had minimal to no impact whatsoever.
ULEZ is about making money, full stop. Where the ‘stolen’ money is invested is anyones guess …
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Did you get your license back Simon or is your husband still driving you around.
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Our cities have never had cleaner air in all their history.
From their foundation to the coming of sewers in the 19th century they stank of excrement. Then there were terrible smogs due to the burning of uncoked coal for domestic heating, which were done away with by coke and gas-fired central heating and higher factory standards. Then there was lead in petrol, a worse baddie than you might think
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/
but now done away with. Then there were particulates from diesels and turbo-powered petrol cars (yes, smaller engines to reduce carbon dioxide, with the power made up by turbocharging, worsened the particulate problem); but particulates have been greatly reduced by catalytic convertors and the problem is now negligible:
https://junkscience.com/2023/03/pm2-5-mass-killer-or-mass-fraud/
I exhort all to read this last link and see that the claims on which ULEZ is based are nonsense.
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We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet,
Yet is there no man speaketh as we speak in the street.
It may be we shall rise the last as Frenchmen rose the first,
Our wrath come after Russia’s wrath and our wrath be the worst.
It may be we are meant to mark with our riot and our rest
God’s scorn for all men governing. It may be beer is best.
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
– G.K. Chesterton
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With Father’s Day coming up, cordless tools, glues and foam fillers are ideal gifts for those jobs that need to done before long…
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Sorry, J.C., it was June the sixteenth in the United Kingdom.
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The entrance to the car park for Hampton Court Palace is outside the ULEZ zone but the exit is inside it.
Time to open a new exit by the entrance…
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No worries, soon they’ll expand the ULEZ zone and that car park will be fully included. Then they’ll expand it again and again until the entire city is a ULEZ zone. With the Left, it’s about power and control.
It’s the Left, it’s always the Left.
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Perhaps they could put the exit to the car park on the Right?
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People have been disengaged for decades thinking it’s someone else’s problem or responsibility. Some think that if they comply and keep their head down they will get by somehow.
Well it doesn’t work that way. The longer you do nothing and don’t fight against this the higher the price you pay later when you have to fight for your life.
This is going to get ugly!
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if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. – Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol.1: The Gathering Storm, ch. XIX.
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Just read this article, it expands on where Khan’s lunatic ideas come from, the C40 group.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/31/the-green-globalists-behind-ulez-and-what-they-have-planned-next/
Another example of the lunacy that runs through the C40 group is the aim to control what you eat, meat in particular.
“a “progressive” target for 2030 was set of a daily per person allowance of 44g of meat (enough for two small meatballs), a daily limit of 2,500 calories, (less than the ration in the Second World War)”
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/31/sadiq-khans-green-globalist-gang-suggests-daily-44g-meat-allowance-and-rations-lower-than-second-world-war/
Khan is the current chairman of C40, a global network of city mayors (eg. Sydney, Melborne) backed by numerous hard-Left billionaire foundations (eg. Soros).
You have been warned.
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There is no link between CO2 and global temperatures or climate. These are computer models written by activists which ALWAYS predict a 2 degree rise [at least].
NEVER FORGET THAT THESE PEOPLE PREDICT A TWO DEGREE RISE BY 2030. All previous predictions have not come about, and neither will this one.
This is becoming really serious. In the UK it is used to justify ULEZ; 15 minute cities; closing cheap reliable coal-fired power stations, electric cars [there are not enough resources to build them, or electricity to power them]; and crazy ‘green’ schemes. Bear in mind that the UK Labour say ‘fighting climate change’ is their top priority. I have no idea what kind of hell-hole the UK will be when they have finished.
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If, after all these “measures” have taken their horrendous toll, will the planet behave itself, or, do something weird, like snap into a “mini Ice Age” for a century or three. There are precedents.
And if an errant rock of suitable proportions whacks our planet at 40+thousand Km per hour, you can say goodbye to well over half of the planet’s population in short order. This would greatly please the Death Cultists, but what happens next would cheer the dead hearts of the mongrels. Burn and blast, are just the “warm-up” but following that will be Mega-Tsunamies and city-leveling earthquakes as the wounded planet wobbles in its orbit and the general geology is rearranged. Then; STARVATION and COLD. Lots of upper atmosphere dust and ice crystals blotting out warming sunlight for a decade or so. No crops, no grazing, frozen seaways, NO fuel, short-haul pedestrian transport only.
“Disasters”? This planet has seen a few. Ice Ages are deadly, DRY times. Only a terminal psycho would wish one on the planet.
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So do the the greedy billionaires, elites, pollies or MSM etc give a stuff about the child or SLAVE labor that’s required to supply the rare earth materials for their new so called clean ( ??????) energy economy?
This is a rotten, vile TOXIC economy and yet some of the wealthiest people on the planet are making their fortunes by their vile exploitation of some of the poorest people and children in Africa and parts of China.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/21/carnage-of-child-labor-and-ecological-destruction-elsewhere-acceptable-to-wealthy-countries/
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A number of new studies have found little evidence of warming on the Greenland ice sheet over the last 20 years.
Certainly no evidence of their global boiling BS and FRAUD.
And that’s after decades of the WARM phase of the Atlantic Multi- decadal Oscillation.
So what will happen when the COOL phase of the AMO starts and probably by 2030? Have a guess?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/31/greenlands-2022-23-ice-coverage-well-above-1981-2010-average-despite-global-boiling-rhetoric/
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BTW here’s the graph of the AMO from 1880 to 2018 and note that the last full warm phase lasted from about 1928 to about 1958.
Also note that the former warm phase was warmer than the current warm phase of the AMO. And when the next cold phase starts it will probably last to 2050 and even 2060. Who knows?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_multidecadal_oscillation#/media/File:Atlantic_Multidecadal_Oscillation.svg
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Also note that the cool phase of the AMO from about 1897 to 1928 wasn’t as cool or as strong as the last cool phase from about 1959 to about 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_multidecadal_oscillation#/media/File:Atlantic_Multidecadal_Oscillation.svg
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Thanks Neville.
The cooling phase is something I am telling any who will hear about. The suns cycles are very well known and understood, unlike CO2 based warming which is an utter lie. And just as we are getting colder weather will be when Dan and all the other total idiots who are in charge will have turned off reliable cheap coal plants. Maybe it will be like a “cold shower” to wake people up to the utter con they are falling for…
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This is where Khan is heading…
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/31/sadiq-khans-green-globalist-gang-suggests-daily-44g-meat-allowance-and-rations-lower-than-second-world-war/
“London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ulez punch-down on cars and vans owned by the less affluent is just one example of the attacks planned against town dwellers living in modern industrial societies. Khan is the current chairman of C40, a global network of city mayors backed by numerous hard-Left billionaire foundations. Removing cars from cities is just one of its aims. In a Headline Report published by the group in 2019 and re-emphasised earlier this year, a “progressive” target for 2030 was set of a daily per person allowance of 44g of meat (enough for two small meatballs), a daily limit of 2,500 calories, (less than the ration in the Second World War), one short haul flight every three years, eight new clothing items a year and private cars available for only one in five people. This “pioneering piece of thought leadership” was said to seek a “radical, and rapid, shift in consumption patterns”.”
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