Still using the old NHS dentist in Forest Hill. No NHS places available in Orpington. This appointment was arranged weeks ago such is the pressure on NHS dentists, so I’m lucky.
Smithfield and Billngsgate Market closing - heartbreaking news. Loved Smithfield as a kid watching the porters work. 900 years of history gone. Such a shame
It’s all part of the growing trend in London. English heritage & way of life being gradually destroyed.
As is our car industry, by this insane drive towards making EV's that nobody wants. Let's just pay the Chinese to import their dodgy crap, and make all our skilled workers redundant. Will the last person out of Luton please remember to turn off the lights.
Without getting too political, this was always the glaring flaw in the “Green Agenda”. It’s going to result in thousands of working class people losing their jobs, so middle class people can wallow in self satisfaction and drive expensive electric cars. I will never drive an electric car. Luton is just the start ….
...or a clean car You have still not paid for my dry cleaning bill from last time I was in your rust bucket.
I’ve bought a BMW 5 series since then although as i told you when we last met, was a victim of car crime
I bought an electric car three years ago. I am really happy with it. I have a charging point at home and have only used a public charging point once. I also have a self charging hybrid which I am also very happy about. My Wife uses it. I have a petrol car which I pay for and my daughter uses. I am going to upgrade my electric car next year to one that does over 300 miles per charge. I am paying a fraction of what I used to spend on petrol on electricity. Get used to it hybrid and electric cars are the future.
It’s nice that folk like you and I can afford to run three cars, but millions can’t, and tens of thousands still work in the traditional car industry, and they should be protected thru the market offering choice. I’d question that you are saving much between electric / petrol. My street has two electric charging points in it. I often stand nearby having a smoke & antagonising our local Gestapo-like Council Enforcement Officers. I have lost count of the number of often heated arguments I have witnessed between drivers waiting to use the charging points - assuming you can understand the language they are speaking in of course. There isn’t the infrastructure available to support the woke Green fanatics agenda, which is another reason why it should be delayed. If there is one person left in London by 2035 driving a petrol car, it will be me.
I know a bit about this subject, and many electric car owners are currently extremely restricted in terms of their journeys, due to the lack of charging points. Apps have been developed that actively warn motorists NOT to take certain journeys, as they will run out of charge. Not unexpectedly, the Green Agenda negatively impacts on poorer, rural communities, who have no charging points & no choice but to use their older petrol cars. The consequence of this policy, once again, is one of unintended by widely known consequences - the “deserving poor” suffer, the smug middle class get to feel good about themselves. Meanwhile, this Government flies 539 officials to the last COP summit to talk bollox that are irrelevant anyway, as China just ignores everything. Rather like when that truly odious little individual Khan extended ULEZ to the outer Boroughs, and the residents of Biggin Hill had to pay £13 a day to use their older cars so that the residents of Islington & Notting Hill could swan around in their electric cars to feel virtuous. I wonder how 1,100 working class people in Luton are feeling today, as Dale Vince & Ed Miliband enjoy a Guacamole latte at lunch ?
I've got a small electric car, and a charging point at home. I set it up to charge between 2 and 5am when I get cheap electricity from Octopus. I preferred my petrol car to drive, but want my kids and hopefully grandchildren to know that at least we tried, when the worst effects of climate change reach these shores. Some might call this virtue-signalling, but that's not my problem. I don't use it for long journeys, and hire a petrol car when we go on holiday. The situation, like many others, is far more nuanced than just taking the pro or anti stance, which is much simpler.
