2023-11-27
The answer to this question is of course "not whilst there is a single MP left in Parliament who believes he knows better than his constituents ... ".
To which observation we should add " ... and controls the education system that so clearly brainwashes our children to believe the authorities rather than training them to learn to think for themselves".
Harsh words? Well, Net Zero Watch helpfully publish "The War on the Car" by James Rupert, a paper that reviews the history of personal motoring and the government's incessant (and usually misguided) meddling with it.
The motorist was indeed originally cemented as a product of the government's own intervention in transport policy in the 1960s, when Dr Beeching was brought in to put an end to local railways, and motorways were constructed (at vast government expense that could have been used to modernise the railways) so that the private motor car could compete with even the main lines for intercity transport.
Well, all that is water under the bridge as they say, but since then the meddling has continued non-stop as governments, in the teeth of all the evidence, continue to believe that they alone have the power to improve our lives, by any means that may come into their uncritical heads.
