The ban on buying new petrol cars after 2030 will not be enough to meet green targets because polluting vehicles bought today are 'very likely' to still be in use, the RAC Foundation has said.
Well, of course they will! And why? Because we're making better cars:
Vehicles have become less prone to corrosion and serious mechanical failure, while the cost-of-living crisis has made buying a car less affordable, even preowned.
What does the RAC suggest? Scrapping the ridiculous green targets, perhaps?
That would be sensible, wouldn't it? That would be what your members surely want, wouldn't it?
The RAC Foundation has urged the government to encourage new car buyers to go electric, or at least choose a vehicle with low emissions.
Oh. 'More of the same'. So much for representing your members interests...
Electric cars can cost less to run and most experts agree that they are better for the planet.
And where do they find these 'experts'..?
Guest post by Ripper:
Everything is linked to the same cause if you look hard enough. I've said before that:
a) the human race are no more than apes with smartphones. If you think that we are civilised think again, we all retain those primitive instincts of survival.
b) we never grow up, we remain as children our whole lives regardless of IQ. That particular penny dropped here a long time ago, when Peter Gabriel made this track. He was also of the idea that politicians and world leaders are just like kids in the school playground.
Once he cries uncle his mates no longer feel that they can take you on. Should you be the victim of a pile-on and lose, then you get them one by one, at a time when they're on their own. Everything is political, even in the school yard.
In order to be a school bully, first you must gaslight your potential supporters into believing that you are all powerful. You brag and boast without actually doing anything to back it up.
You choose the easiest targets, or push other kids around while your little gang is there, thinking that you will protect them against anything, when in fact its them protecting you.
Slowly, you come to rule the whole school, until one kid sees through your veil of lies. The tiny dot principle.
I've posted this before, but the lyrics are bang on the money. The cabal, the coof, the Ukraine, Antifa, BLM, Climate Change, all in one.
Four councils are responsible for bringing more than half of the prosecutions in England for people abusing the use of disabled parking badges.So, does it only happen in these four, which are Lambeth, Birmingham, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Bromley? Or are the other councils not doing their job?
The AA has raised concerns that councils do not take enforcement seriously, after the data also showed that more than two-thirds of councils, 110 out of England’s 140 local authorities, had not prosecuted anyone at all for misusing them.
Ah. Like I figured.
In an exercise in stating the bleeding obvious, there is a crisis of confidence and trust going on during these times. For example, there is this:
The discovery was made in the first deep sequencing of the mRNA products, carried out by Dr. Kevin McKernan of Medicinal Genomics and his team. The researchers found that the vaccines were contaminated with significant quantities of biological agents known as plasmids.
Dr. Anthony Brookes, Professor of Genomics and Health Data Science at the University of Leicester, told the Daily Sceptic: “This is a solid piece of research by a very knowledgeable team.”
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then perhaps coming to the Baftas looking for diversity is an exercise in madness.Well, yes, Laila, since it's just a luvvie's award show. If you want diversity, trip down your local enriched high street (if the cops haven't sealed off the road for another machete attack) instead and marvel...
...awards are fundamentally subjective exercises. Trying to get film fans to unanimously agree that Cate Blanchett was more convincing as a lecherous conductor than Deadwyler as the bereaved mother of a lynched child, or vice versa, is a fool’s errand.
And yet here you are, a fool...
Some of our best filmmakers, such as Terence Davies and Joanna Hogg, are studiously ignored by Bafta voters, and Black British directors Menelik Shabazz, Horace Ové and Ngozi Onwurah innovated without the support of many of the bodies that purport to champion British film.
Excellent! They can be scrapped then. Since they are obviously not required. Eh, Laila..?
Awards are only as prestigious as the public perception of them, and by the time the Bafta inclusivity targets are met in 2025 it may be too late to claw back any cultural relevancy.
Guess the public have spoken.
The Government is introducing new legislation aimed at protecting employees from harassment in the workplace.
But critics fear the change will have far-reaching consequences for free speech and will lead to employers having a “legitimate legal interest in policing what members of the public say”.
An amendment to the Equality Act, backed by ministers, will make employers liable for third-party harassment – meaning from members of the public, as well as from their fellow staff members.
Under clause one of the Bill, employers will be required to take “all reasonable steps” to protect their employees from harassment of any kind, and failure to do so will leave them vulnerable to being sued by their employees in the Employment Tribunal.
The ratchet lock is never released in a statist society, it's only ever paused, pending a more conducive time to give it another wind.
It'd explain their failure to find them, wouldn't it?
It has emerged that senior officers believe there are still “many” firearms in the hands of people who should not have them, despite the former home secretary Priti Patel ordering them to look again at cases where they returned firearms to people after confiscation.
If I disobeyed my boss I'd expect to have a very uncomfortable conversation. Why is that never the case for failing police farces?
Alarm bells have also been rung because the number of shotgun certificate applications Devon and Cornwall are rejecting has doubled since the Plymouth shootings but the rate in the rest of England and Wales has remained at just 3%, suggesting some forces may still be looking too leniently on applications.
Maybe. Or maybe Devon & Cornwell, realising they had not just dropped the ball but then drop-kicked it into their own goal, were overzealous?
The new chief constable of Devon and Cornwall, Will Kerr, who came into the post the year after Davison’s attacks, is among those calling for fundamental change.
He said the firearms legislation, introduced in 1968, was “no longer suitable”, arguing that the emphasis was on “permitting rather than preventing gun ownership”.
As indeed it should be. In a modern capitalist democracy, that should always be the default, shouldn't it? Whether we are talking about cars, second homes or guns...
