Got a spare £200k to drop on a motor? Keir Starmer is your mate
Keir Starmer has today confirmed that the government will proceed with a ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 onward, forcing people to buy electric vehicles despite ongoing concerns about safety and the risk of batteries bursting into flames.
However, he has also confirmed that supercars – like £200,000+ McLarens, Bentleys, Aston Martins and others, which incidentally pollute twice as much or more as an ordinary car – are exempted from the ban, supposedly because fewer of those are sold because of the astronomical price tag.
So while the rest of the country is forced to buy electric cars that might have safety issues, to hunt around for charging points or bargain with a neighbour if they don’t have a driveway to charge overnight, and to live with the far more limited range and long refill times of electric vehicles, the ultra-wealthy will be laughing as they shoot past the poor saps reliant on batteries.
All thanks to Sir Kid Starver and his billionaire-friendly government.
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I’d never thought about charging for people who lack a drive, me for example. My terrace house doesn’t, or people who live in flats, typically the poor. As usual the poor get the worst deal.
My crossover diesel gets up to 80.5 mpg. Far better then most hybrids. Not as damaging to roads as EVs. Too much generalisation in the dash for EVs. London EVs would be OK if only Londoners produced their own bloody energy!
‘crossover diesel’, wish I knew what that is…
Well thanks to the massive £1.40 per week bump in my carer’s allowance, I’ll most likely be getting shut of my car soon.
Even though it’s ‘only’ £35 p.a. tax the insurance has never gone down in the six years since I reapplied for my licence.
But at least they’ll ‘allow’ me to earn more money before they take the allowance off me.
Not that it matters because my circumstances mean I can’t work.
I got shafted for the cost of living during covid because I wasnt on UC. Prices didn’t go up for me, apparently.
But they’ve ever so kindly given me an extra one-pounds-fucking-forty for my 35+hours.
That’s what I’m worth…Not even FOUR fucking pence per hour.
You’re welcome. tugs forelock*
The greens have pushed and pushed for this but the cars they making are great polluters has the carbon to make them plus’s after it’s short life it’s another poisonous vehicles to rid us of at the moment I’m still with the petrol diesel cars the greens have pushed but sadly there’s more of us and these clowns have had their way
For me this headline reads, “Starmer confirms he will lose 2029 election”. Electric cars are not viable for a whole lotta people.
me too, he’s confirming that his job is to save capitalism at any cost. The thing is, Major automakers project EVs will constitute onlt c 40% of global car sales by 2030, yet the EU California have mandated 100% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035. Starmer’s statement is showing him to be a prize-prat, a PR functionary – not a leader.
He’s part of problems, never part of solutions.