Living in a green dictatorship

The election leaflets landed on our doormats. The usual platitudes from the usual party suspects.

From virtue-signalling support for the impossible to achieve net zero target by the Alliance party, to a NIMBY attack on the commercial heartbeat of our economy and supply, road haulage, by the Conservative.

For the first time in 48 years, I decided that I would abstain from voting but the Reform UK Party leaflet is the only mini local manifesto that focusses on common sense: Rebuild local economy and cut wasteful council spending.

The Tory candidate’s antilorry focus is emotive and is ill-informed; 97% of everything in our homes, workplaces and schools was delivered by a fossil fuelled truck. Selective haulage management is not the answer.

What’s needed is a national long term road transport plan, that’s fair and safe to all road users and pedestrians. That benefits the economic, environment and community cohesion. Emotive statements like ‘getting lorries out of our lives’ is not true traditional blue Conservative ethos and reflects how out of touch mainstream local politicos have become.

As a one nation Conservative and founder of FairFuelUK I wrote articles in the national press for drivers to vote Tory in the 2019 general election, as they are the time-honoured motorist’s friend.

How wrong I’ve since been proved. With the unexpected 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel sales and the complete lack of preparation, financially and practically, to convert 37m UK drivers to electric cars, it seems we are now in a green agenda dictatorship.

Undemocratic decisions have been forced upon us without consultation and were not in any party manifesto.

Howard Cox