In the Sun this week, long-time defender of road users and the Reform Party’s former candidate for London Mayor, Howard Cox, finds “proof that the war on drivers has been revved up”. In 2023, 18 million penalty charge notices (PCNs) were given to motorists for various infractions. As Cox relates, many believe the rules these drivers have broken are designed, not to regulate the efficient and proper use of the road, but to rinse money from hapless drivers. One hatched yellow box (road markings into which vehicles are not permitted to stop) in Hammersmith raised £2.7 million for the the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. But this war on motorists, and against the car, does not begin and end here.
Cars are, of course, public enemy #1 as far as extreme green-leaning local authorities under the control of all legacy parties are concerned. Over recent years, we’ve seen the increasing, and arguably often unnecessary regulation of speed, the closure of roads to create Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), congestion charges, Clean Air Zones (CAZs), Moving Traffic Violations (MTVs), and lethal Smart Motorways, all of which create new, and often confusing conditions for road use. And of course, these new regulatory interventions are enforced by financial penalties, which fall disproportionately on those who are less able to pay, but who drive out of economic necessity. Failing to pay within a certain time limit typically results in the doubling of the fine. And failing to pay that can soon result in visits from poorly regulated and aggressive bailiffs.
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And yet ‘he’ wanted another 4 years … or rather the Biden whisperers did.
Now that’s disinformation.
But why, exactly, do America’s real rulers want creatures like the Biden-dolt or the Harris-halfwit to be president of the United States? What’s the gain they’re hoping for?
But the puppeteer gets all of the control without appearing in public.
They’re just brainwashed, and have totally swallowed the relentless “Orange Man Bad” propaganda.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that the media lies like a cheap watch some people still switch on and watch it, and believe it.
As (Twain?) said, “It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled.”
Now Orange Man is pretty far from perfect, but given the alternative he positively shines in comparison. And I don’t recall the division there is now under POTUS 45.
As an aside, if anyone fancies some mild entertainment, check out The Dor Brothers on YouTube. It’s absolutely stunning, and not a little unnerving.
Or Dark Brandon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ3r_qu7TWc
Lots of money obviously.
Because it’s a good legitimate cover for their behind the scenes looting spree
Poor old sod thought he was President of the USA.
I don’t think he even thought that!
So, and we have people… and listen, there are people who…. so. Ah shucks… And America, Medicare has foreign… Coming through the door of this great… Huh. Syria, Russia, Guatemala, Germany, Chile, the President has, er… It’s vital that the planet air y’see. Children need er… OK that’s me done here. God Bless! They’re telling me…. er…. now where was it… IT’S NOT RIGHT! KEEP … ER … Ok folks…
What worries me is just what the Biden administration is doing in its last days to compromise the Trump presidency.
We have the same mental incapacity problem here, but at the other end of the age scale. Our ‘leaders’ are immature adolescents who only have one skill, which is to shout out loudly everthing that their superiors have told them to…
And a total inability to practise critical thinking.
Peter Mandelson to be the next ambassador to the U.S;
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peter-mandelson-uk-ambassador-us-donald-trump-b2667479.html
The whispering snake, as portrayed on Spitting Image.
“The extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s contact with former UK cabinet minister Lord Peter Mandelson is laid bare in a newly released report that describes repeated meetings between the disgraced financier and the politician he knew as “Petie”. The internal JPMorgan report from 2019, filed to a New York court on Tuesday, found that “Jeffrey Epstein appears to maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the British government”.
https://www.ft.com/content/07238b43-48e6-4e7b-96d2-d50a4ada4646
Excellent that this has been published, just at the right moment.
The Dark Lord rises again.
Not just the White House. Almost all of the media also covered up his dementia.
It’s hard to decide where the biggest crooks and liars reside: politics, or the MS media?
They hid it during the 2020 Presidential campaign. He was already suffering from dementia when he was nominated, which is why they kept him locked in the basement until the votes were counted.
Votes counted and then the required additional votes printed and counted.
Nope they didn’t hide it. —-We could all see it.
Yes, “we” could all see it, but there are so many grifters and useful idiots in the USA and in the world who found it in their interest to ignore and go along with the lie.
Communists want power. It doesn’t matter to them if the power is competent. They are evil minded simpletons.
Given that Belgium prospered for many years with no government at all, it is possible to argue that cabbages, lettuces, octopii and other seers might make the best governors of all; benevolent despots that at least offer decent nutrition as expiation for policy blunders?
Dementia does not appear overnight and is progressive. It is certain his wife and family members and close associates knew this before he stood for election.
Anyone observing and paying attention – public, media – seeing the obvious signs during his Presidency would work backwards and realise this. The White House doctor would certainly have been aware from day one of the Presidency of his condition.
The cover-up started before the Primaries electing him as candidate.