Locals are up in arms after a Labour-led London council raked in close to £12 million in fines from motorists passing through a controversial Clean Air Neighbourhood, branding it a “cynical greenwashing scheme”. The Mail has more.
The traffic calming scheme, which works in a similar fashion to controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTN), was made permanent by Hammersmith and Fulham Council in December 2021.
It has caused a furious reaction from residents who blasted it as nothing more than a cash-grab by the council that simply diverts traffic onto other roads.
One resident told the Telegraph: “It is blindingly obvious that the infrastructure supporting this naked money-making scheme is not fit for purpose.
“This is a cynical greenwashing scheme which diverts traffic elsewhere, does nothing to save the planet and benefits the richer residents of South Fulham living inside the leafy green streets, at the expense of those residents living along the main roads.” …
Others have raised concerns about the safety of women after Uber drivers refused to drive into the zone to drop women at their front doors over fears of being charged.
While residents within the borough are allowed to move freely amongst the streets, alongside black cab drivers, carers and businesses’ visitors, out-of-borough drivers will be fined.
The CAN, which takes aim at ‘rat-running’, covers New Kings Road, Wandsworth Bridge and the River Thame and took in £11.8 million from fining drivers last year.
The western scheme collected £7.8 million in fines in 2023 while the eastern scheme took in around £4 million in fines, according to the council’s data.
Further to this the council spent £20,000 on road markings and signage with a further £10,000 used for promotion letters and leaflets when it was first introduced. …
The traffic calming scheme works by using planters or barriers to stop traffic being able to drive along a certain route in hope that it will make roads more pedestrian-friendly and reduce air pollution.
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As John Lennon once sang, “If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow”. Or in the lingua franca of 2023: “Go woke, go broke”.
Woke = sleepwalking into tyranny
I don’t see the woke wave abating.
A few people raising their voices and more people suddenly waking up to what’s going on around them is all good. But at best it’s a start.
Until all these people, basically the 21st century’s communists, are moved away from all the levers of power they’ve got their hands on; the universities, the media, the entertainment companies, the state bureaucracies and plenty others, we’ll continue to be fed a steady diet of lunacy in their efforts to demolish our society and reconstruct it in their dystopian vision
It’s the original communist playbook tweaked for the 21st century.
Agree, but I also believe that the emasculation of society is playing a key role. Until men stand up and be counted in the war against masculinity – ignoring the pathetic insults (male tears, fragility, insecurity, etc) used to close down conversation – then we’ll have a problem. Society needs masculinity to ensure a natural balance, and we must push back, stop their march, and start reversing the feminisation of the West.
Toxic femininity.
True feminists had historical struggles and had to push hard, rightly so to my mind. However in the West we’ve had equal rights in law for decades, so the grandstanding today is virtue signalling, mostly for irrelevant nonsense or imaginary boogieman. Yet female-dominated social media (thats everything except youtube) really got the bit between its teeth after #MeToo went mainstream and the 2016 Trump/Brexit disaster happened; a stark wake up call for power elites that required all hands to their various levers of power and control, and, clearly, very drastic counter measures.
Power elites must of thought we had all these people, deplorable people, voting for a tv character who says he grabs women by the pussy? Let me say for the record I like pussy as much as the next guy, probably more than the next guy in this day and age, but I’d never even conceived of the notion to grab a woman by the pussy? There just isn’t the purchase, in old fashioned women that is. Yet they adored him and flocked to his roadshows. We needed something big and galvanising, shock and awe, a modern day witch hunt, or wizard hunt to counter this toxic masculinity: The Hollywood wizard trials. A puritanical struggle session across the Anglosphere to recast man. And we’ll need some sacrificial totems, people like us but too brazen to defend or any one whos fallen out of favour…
The irony is most of the woke are women, who are naturally kinder and more compassionate, thinking the social justice perscribed is geuniely beneficial. But quite a few appear to embrace the extreme, the modern day hippy cult vibe (I won’t go so far as Charles Mansonesque ‘Family’ cult vibe but it sounds like its getting there) with dyed hair, unconcerned by appearance, consider themself anti-establishment (despite all their wants already law and echoed by billionaires and the establishment), and where hardened members have formed cult communes like Portland, Oregon’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone there were murders, violence, lots of free love and instances of rape and sexual abuse, all within a few blocks and 2 months, exactly what they purportedly rail against?
As Bill says you can’t cast out human nature, lots of humans will remain being selfish, covetous, stupid, greedy, violent, lazy etc. It even turns out some women still like getting grabbed, whether they admit it or not.
For those who like baseless theories it feels like the whole woke/social justice movement we have is predicated on such risible baloney it could only be a modern hybrid warfare operation from Academia. Academia’s contribution to the power elite designs for a Chinese style totalitarian control if you like, helping to break society down and atomise us (perhaps as an MK-Ultra candidate would have been, in order to reset their mind, morals and judgement), by churning out an army of pointless but time consuming cultural distractions, societal red herrings and puppets armed with laughably absurdist cynical theories. Presaging a great reset of Westerners social and cultural expectations, the role of the state and a reintroduction of neofeudalism based on digital…
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“The irony is most of the woke are women, who are naturally kinder and more compassionate…”. This is what men want to believe – that women are nicer, better in some way, than men; that women can balance a part of you by giving you a reason to be better, nicer. I believe that nature intended this as part of its Yin and Yang. But the last couple of decades appears to have shown this assumption is a fallacy. Who’s more likely to stick their finger up to you in a car? More likely to push in at the bar? More likely to throw insults at you? Women. Without a shadow of a doubt. And when pulled up, they excuse themselves by shouting misogyny and shoving their victim card in your face.
So I’m not sure about that anymore. I still want to believe it, want to believe that their hyper-aggressive tendencies are born from the distortion of natural character by decades of ugly feminism. But I’m really not sure. To quote Abraham Lincoln “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”. Recent history appears to show that women fail this test in far greater numbers then men.
So… more people are beginning to see that Woke = Socialism, which not politics or ideology, but possession by evil.
Perhaps, as someone once said, we are approaching the end of the beginning…
Would have been share-able, had it not been for the ‘climate change’ quip at the end.
Excellent content otherwise.
’Socialism is resentment disguised as compassion, enforced by tyranny disguised as tolerance’.
Far from being thought of as a liberal leftie, Bill Maher is usually considered a snide rightie as his mis-characterization of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
The Little Red Book, for example, taught 400,000,000 illiterate peasants to read, write, argue, and vote.
It was well worth watching