Fork in road
WELL done to the Prime Minister for declaring an end to the war on drivers.
For years motorists have been relentlessly squeezed by soaring fuel costs, extra barriers to where they can drive and endless new ruses to fleece them.
Congestion charges, low-traffic neighbourhoods, Ulez, bus lanes, cycle lanes and blanket 20mph restrictions have all been forced on them.
Usually they come with dubious environmental or safety justifications when, in truth, they are just a cash-grab.
Rishi Sunak’s sensible new stance — a victory for The Sun’s Give Us A Brake campaign — will be met with howls of protest by middle-class eco-zealots with expensive electric cars, and by those on the Left who ludicrously believe only the “wealthy” drive.
In fact, it’s the way most ordinary people get to work, take the kids to school or do their shopping.
The utter contempt for motorists shown by city councils up and down the country, by the Labour government in Wales and by car-hating London mayor Sadiq Khan — who sees drivers on a par with far-right extremists and Covid- deniers — gives motorists a clue to what could be coming down the road under Keir Starmer.
By grabbing the steering wheel on this issue, Rishi signals a welcome change of direction.
BBC’s bad news
ONCE again the Remainiacs and doom-mongers have been proved wrong.
Those who continually talk down our country — usually while pretending everything would be better inside the EU — have been left dumbfounded by revised figures that show that the UK has recovered well from the pandemic.
Far from us still lagging behind pre-Covid GDP, as the analysts previously said, our economy has added an extra £10billion in output since the end of 2019.
Our recovery has been better than France’s and far better than Germany’s.
The UK economy also grew faster than predicted in the first three months of this year.
Not that you would know it from the BBC news homepage, where the story was buried near the bottom.
They just hate good news about the UK. And this is very good news.
1-way picket
TODAY’S politically motivated train strike, targeted directly at the Conservative Party conference, will also cause chaos for thousands of football fans and other travellers.
Union dinosaurs don’t give a stuff.
Aslef boss Mick Whelan refuses to rule out industrial action hitting the Christmas period too.
He says he “can’t write anything off”.
Well, he’s doing his best to write off the industry that feeds his members.