Which are what, in your opinion?
I honestly believe in years to come the current batch of electric cars will be viewed in the same light as diesels now, due to the harmful processes needed to get the materials for the batteries and how short a lifespan they will have due to the amount of mileage a lot of people do as so need recharging so often.
I haven’t read that book and it may well be in there, but looking at the leave vote distribution I imagine that post-industrial towns in Wales, Midlands and Northern England that were totally abandoned by the government of the day will be part of it.
In the case of the north of England generally, an ever declining standard of living which was brought about by neoliberalism of which the EU is a big part (but not the only part).
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Won't be getting any future classics if they're all scrapped...Not many people are running historic vehicles as everyday runabouts. Plenty of people of relatively limited means, but who won't hit the in-benefit criteria, are running old bangers that aren't ULEZ compliant. If the numbers were genuinely tiny, then paying them to take them off the road wouldn't be an issue.
Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, is taking a different approach to ULEZ. This looks like a better way to get buy in, to me...
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I find this hard to disagree with. I also suspect that battery powered cars are just a stop gap until hydrogen powered cars become more viable. I also don’t understand why the government also isn’t heavily investing in green hydrogen production right now as that in my mind is very obviously the future.
I think that’s almost inevitable simply because of the throw away mentality we now have as consumers. They’ll be survivors but on the fraction of the scale we’ve seen in the past.
We’re seeing the same with 15 minute cities. The right love jumping on this with huge conspiracy theories about mind control and lost rights. If you see a protest it’s typically bused in protester’s. Where it is happening it tends to be far more popular than unpopular amongst actual local residents and businesses. It’s just right wing snowflakes pretending that they’re a silent majority when in reality they’re a noisy minority.
Yeah once it is implemented in the outer boroughs and most people see it has no effect on them and that it actually improves their lives then the issue will pass.
Very strange for the Labour leadership to play into the idea that it lost the election then.
Tories and champagne socialists mainly. Same people happy that LTNs are directing the traffic out of their pleasant neighbourhood.
I got interested in the idea of 15 minutes cities a few years ago and I really can't see what is in it that has seen it become a right wing conspiracy.
20 points ahead yet terrified of their own shadow.
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it did lose the election but as we have already discussed it is the weaponised version of it rather than the reality of the ULEZ. The tory campaign was able to paint a picture where everyone was going to have to pay 1000s more a year and that scares people,.
The odd thing with that is if the Tories are putting your policies surely the point is it’s because they can’t talk of their own policies or their own record.20 points ahead yet terrified of their own shadow.
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