Ross Clark has written the cover story for this week’s Spectator about the ongoing war on motorists. Here’s an extract:
The phrase ‘war on motorists’ has often been overused, not least by drivers who feel aggrieved after being caught speeding. But hostilities have reached a level at which it is hard for ordinary drivers not to wonder whether there is a systematic campaign to ease them out of their vehicles – or else to milk them for revenue.
It is not just London and Ulez: low emission zones, low traffic neighbourhoods and parking, bus lane and box junction fines are proliferating across the country. Birmingham has had a low emission zone since 2021, Bristol since November. Glasgow began enforcing its zone last month. Cambridge is planning a £5 a day congestion fee, while Oxford and Canterbury will soon limit motorists from driving between one area of their city and another.
Ostensibly, Ulez, like all these schemes, is about air quality. Khan’s office claims, as justification for the extension, that central London has seen since 2019 a reduction of 46% in nitrogen oxides and a 41% reduction in PM 2.5 pollution (particulates which are less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter). You don’t have to sniff too hard, however, to smell a rat. The mayor’s study arrived at these figures by comparing actual roadside measurements with what it guesses pollution levels would have been had there been no Ulez for cars. Yet the graph showing the predicted path of emissions in 2020 and 2021 without Ulez looks remarkably flat – in spite of a collapse in traffic due to the pandemic. According to the mayor’s modelling, emissions would have fallen by 10% in 2020, the year of two lockdowns.
Department for Transport data shows that traffic in central London decreased by much more than this in 2020 – by 22% in Westminster, for example, and 19% in Camden. Pollution might also have been expected to fall thanks to a suspension of construction work.
A more independent source is an Imperial College study which looked at pollution in central London for 12 weeks before and 12 weeks after the original Ulez was introduced in 2019. It found that overall nitrogen oxide levels fell by just 3% and there was no significant reduction in PM 2.5 pollution. In some sites, pollution actually worsened. One of the authors concluded: “Our research suggests that a Ulez on its own is not an effective strategy to improve air quality.”
In fact, air pollution has been on a long downward trend for more than 50 years, beginning long before Ulez. Nationwide, emissions of nitrogen oxides have fallen by 77% and PM 2.5s by 85% since 1970 – a result of less coal-burning, cleaner vehicles and many other factors. Cars have become steadily cleaner over that period, though not to the extent that would justify charging a new car nothing.
This is what has offended so many people about Ulez: its highly regressive nature. While the owners of old cars are hammered, the £12.50 daily charge does not fall on the owners of supercars who turn up every summer to speed around the streets of Kensington. Nor does it fall on the owners of electric cars, even though the vast bulk of particulate pollution emitted by vehicles comes from brakes and tyres, not engines.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Architectural critic Tim Abrahams has written an interesting essay in UnHerd about how ‘traffic calming’ measures are carving up our cities – and not in a good way.
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The stabbinations caused the illness, the deaths and the injuries as given in this article. Every post stab cycle saw deaths spiked, and using fake tests and hand waving, attributed to Rona as were the Midazolam murders (some 30.000). The Stab carnage was obvious to many of us before they rolled out this poisoned junk in Dec 2020 (which meant the stabs were prepared before the scamdemic, given they take years to make); with the promise, 1 stab for the wrinklies and done (many of us predicted a never ending stab-fest).
And this by the author is utter BS:
There is nothing objectionable in principle to harnessing revolutionary new mRNA technology to improve public health. Major medical advances in the past have been made possible by technological breakthroughs
Oh sod off. mRNA is gene therapy. And what breakthroughs? Pray tell? Jenner murdering his son? 1920s Chemotherapy still in use? Machines like x-rays cannot be conflated with drugs like aspirin which existed in the middle ages from willow bark.
Billions for cancer ‘research’ and what? Nothing. Billions in charity for various neurological problems and what? Nothing. It all disappears. But it is even worse. All these drugs peddled to the peasants have caused autism, cancers, encephaly, neurological issues, and destroyed various organs.
And now to ‘cure’ cancer, they will introduce their mRNA death shot etc etc. and scream ‘science’. And the author will claim his bona fides and smile saying nothing wrong with mRNA boys and girls.
Enough already with the mantra about ‘science’ and ‘health’. Most of it is utter horse manure, follow the money.
The man behind mRNA intended it to be used to correct faulty genes, not for vaccination. I think there is promise in the former but unfortunately the entire technology is now so tainted by association that it will be a great shame if the possibilities are not realised due to corporate greed and regulatory blindness.
Reflecting on the evidence and for the sake of decency, logic, basic common sense and humanity the whole mRNA industry needs chucking in the bin.
Correcting faulty genes sounds suspiciously like eugenics.
“Billions for cancer ‘research’ and what? Nothing.”
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/our-accounts-
Income in 2017 / 18 £634 million.
And this level of funding has been going on for years yet still we are to believe a cure has not been found.
Absolute bollox.
Charity funding? Taxation with a feel good element.
Don’t do it.
I’ve slowly come around to the scam of modern medicine.
Older kids got Gardasil, younger two did not after I read about adverse effects.
Decided against chemo ever, after seeing mother enduring, extending life by only weeks.
Decided against colonoscopy after doing a risk/benefit analysis.
Taking an experimental drug for a sickness I’m at a low risk for dying, hell no.
The moral vacuum at the heart of our elected self-important minions is staggering. Sadly it pervades our society as well.
Gibraltar was a very good (and early) indicator that all was not well with these jabs. As of spring 2021 they had about 15 deaths attributed to the virus (with + from) but then in the months following their vaccination drive this shot up to something like 70+. I don’t have the exact figures but I remember how startling they where at the time and should have triggered an immediate pause and investigation. The authorities cannot claim they where not warned.
..yes, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone explaining clearly why many countries, like Gibraltar….as well as Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea, and others, for instance all of whom managed to go through the ‘original Covid’ (with the higher IFR)……yet post deaths in very low numbers…at a time when no one was vaccinated…but who now, in 2023 have deaths in the thousands….?
I think NZ particularly was only something like 25 deaths by spring 2021….now after vaccination they have over 2000? Still low overall I know, but a lot higher than 25..
Australia is similar, at the end of 2020 just over 900 deaths, now it’s over 17.000…..and Japan is having its worst figures ever!
I could have missed something, but is it because it just plainly speaks to the ineffectiveness of the vaccines, or their toxicity? Or both?
Am I not involving enough ‘confounders’ and making it too simple?
Great work as always Ramesh.
In my practice I am now seeing frequent Covid cases, all quite unwell for long periods, and all multiple jabbed.
I am yet to see an unjabbed patient with severe disease (though there is no doubt it occurs) and the only hospitalized patients I have seen are multiple jabbed.
I have not seen an unjabbed patient with Covid for the last year
Empirical data I know, though reflected by good statistical data.
That’s interesting, data straight from the horse’s mouth as it were. Of course, if horses really were involved you could be prescribing ivermectin
Do you keep track of this yourself in some way? I mean, just noting how many people show up in a week/month with cov symptoms, their age, jab status?
Are these people who are primarily of a particular age group, do they have co-morbidities? Are you seeing people who are (or were) otherwise fit and healthy showing up with these problems?
Have you discussed with other doctors the number of people you see with cov, do they see the same? I think you said you were in Aus (not certain about that), if so, are you seeing a lot of people now, in what is your summer time?
Lots of questions, I know, but I find your type of data more worthwhile than pure statistics, as those can be twisted any which way. I would much rather hear what people like yourself are seeing.
Unfortunately I haven’t kept a tally on the demographics of those patients.
I can say that the severity of Covid disease in my patients seems unrelated to age/ comorbidities, and seems more related to number of jabs.
I recall 2 obese but unjabbed patients having a particularly mild illness, and 2 highly jabbed but otherwise young and healthy patients being admitted to hospital.
Regarding season, I am seeing more cases now than I have ever seen, though no one admitted to hospital recently.
Prof Thakur’s statistics on hospital admissions (no unjabbed being admitted) tell the story very effectively.
If there is a reason for this, other than multiple jabs cause immunodeficiency, I’d like to hear it.
Thanks for taking the time to answer.
Your observations are very interesting, particularly with regard to highly jabbed but young and healthy – and the fact that you’re seeing lots of cases in the middle of summer (you don’t know how jealous I am as I type that, it is so grey and miserable here at the moment).
It’s a pleasure Jane.
And yes, it’s God’s own country here in rural NSW at present.
Plenty of rain to keep everything green and warm but not too hot!
And yes, I’m in Australia.
Negligence suggests it was an accident.
An accident it certainly was not.
There is so much evidence of things being wrong, I think it will be impossible to get the anticipated justice as the guilt is so distributed. Hard to accept but it hasn’t happened so far and not sure what will tip it over the edge.
Criminal? Almost certainly.
Negligent? Nope – deliberate.
Absolutely tof. Negligence has F A to do with this exercise.
Brewed to a recipe with the aim of maiming and killing.
The biggest government/corporate experiment since the final solution??
Indeed.
Excellent, comprehensive article that lays out the evidence in no uncertain terms. Kudos to the author for producing this very shareworthy piece of work.
Japanese researchers have been tasked with investigating their government’s democide. Our Prof Fukushima is not backwards in coming forwards about his feelings on the situation;
“People are already doing research all over the world,” Fukushima told health ministers during a conference earlier this month. “Japan’s prestige is at stake. You have vaccinated so many people. And yet, only 10% of the members of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, who are leading members of the vaccine campaign have been vaccinated. Is this a fucking joke?”
https://newspunch.com/japan-launches-official-investigation-into-millions-of-covid-vaccine-deaths/
Wow! Professor Fukushima doesn’t half let rip. Good man.
Did you see the videos too yet? All very interesting. There’s not a rug big enough to sweep all of this evidence under anymore.
Yes, I saw the videos Mogs. Wonderful stuff.
When a senior medical specialist hilights that virtually none of those pushing the injections have actually taken them and then puts the question – “Is this a fucking joke?” you just note that cat’s out of the bag and it ain’t going back in.
Great post. Thank you.
Ordinary people are slowly come around to the evidence, but we’ll have to see how much power ordinary people have. It’s been hard to have conversations with friends and family when they’ve all been jabbed–we just don’t even mention it, Yet, a friend–whose pregnant daughter insisted on her getting the jab to access the baby–texted that the collapse of the American football player is being blamed on the jab. My sister–bullied into the jab by her unwell husband and lefty daughters–was horrified to find out that her pregnant daughter got a second or third booster recently.
“and a second hypothesis is that the vaccine may actually be driving infections, serious illness and deaths by some mysterious mechanism not yet identified by scientists”
PLEASE SEE
Kurt Van den Bosch.
Mike Yeadon
Ryan Cole. https://rumble.com/vkopys-a-pathologist-summary-of-what-these-jabs-do-to-the-brain-and-other-organs.html
Sherry Tenpenny https://rense.com/general96/20-mechanisms-of-injury.php
There are countless more.
Exactly. Little doubt really is there? And I agree with Berensen on the idiotic remarks of the authors. Pure desperation and insulting to people’s intelligence. The whole reason we’re experiencing non-stop versions of this virus all throughout the year is because of the bloody jabs! They know this full well of course but are trying to save their skins and defend these death shots. It’s nauseatingly transparent. Meanwhile it seems the jabbed population’s risk of dying or getting sick from anything is way higher than the never-jabbed unofficial control group. This is the massive elephant that’s outgrown the room.
Just a reminder of what happens in countries with low vaccination rates. In SA about 35% population vaccinated, 5% boosted. Covid deaths fell off the cliff beginning of March, slight blip in May. Continued to drop during winter and into summer, although many patients had colds (nobody bothers to get tested now). 95% of the population, including 90% of the vaccinated, had been infected by March/April, after Omicron had worked it’s magic.A few sad people are still wearing masks, often tourists. Chinese visitors still welcome. Hopefully someone with influence will take note of good news from SA. Good luck to you all.
Good luck to you as well. I would be interested in your views regarding the ‘catastrophic contagion’ that appears to be scheduled for 2025 originating in Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_41PQ9_Y9Q
Yep. Billy has had his table top for ‘catastrophic contagion,’ so I expect he is good to go. That means we have less than two years to stop the evil bastard.
We await with interest. Officialdom is held in such low regard here that I hope nothing will get off the ground. Even my initially pro vaccine acquaintances have become very cynical, regarding covid as a sham. Plus the general attitude of the population has always been sceptical of anything emanating from the west.
Thank you. Some grounds for optimism.
If the judicial system wasn’t nobbled like the “government” and the MSM there is no doubt whatsoever that there is sufficient evidence available (and it’s been there for a long time) for arrests to be made with a view to prosecuting individuals in the MHRA, the JCVI and the NHS with Involuntary Manslaughter and assault.
The rationale is that the individuals in those bodies knew (includes wilful negligence) or should have known (given their apparent level of expertise) the dangers of the vaccines balanced against the perceived threat of the “disease” and the absence, lol, of therapeutics.
The bar becomes much lower as regards the recommendations for children – and, this is important, as the clock ticks ie the dangers become more and more and apparent.
So, if I were a senior member of any of those bodies, shudder, maybe I’d be getting a little bit worried.
The dam wall is beginning to crack.
Spot on Sforzesca.
Nail. Hat.
”Elliot Middleton calculates that in 2020, Covid deaths (meaning not all were from Covid) accounted for 42% of all excess deaths in the U.S.” should read: Lockdowns Deaths in 2020 Were 42% of Excess Deaths
Are people finally waking up?
If today’s Australian government statistics are to be believed…
19,786,871 of the population aged 16+ are eligible for a third Covid jab.
But only 14,322,324 of the eligible number have had three jabs.
This means 5,464,547 have rejected the third dose so far.
This is significant in a population of people aged 16+ in which 96.0% had two jabs.
Now only 72.4% of people aged 16+ have had three jabs.
The decline is likely to continue going forwards, re fourth, fifth jabs etc.
The main issue now is to get rid of all mandates…and to demand an investigation into how jab mandates were set in the first place.