Khan’s ULEZ is a tax on the poorest and will be coming to anywhere Labour or Lib Dems wield power
Khan’s city haul
HAVE a fantastic Bank Holiday and, if you’re in outer London, enjoy your last days of freedom before Carmageddon.
Next Tuesday, grasping Labour mayor Sadiq Khan’s new tax on the poorest is finally imposed: £12.50 a day for using an older car or van not complying with his Ulez emissions standards.
It’ll hammer owners merely popping to the shops, going to hospital or doing the school run.
They can scrap their vehicle, of course.
Khan offers a derisory £2,000 compensation, even if it’s worth five times that.
His justification is 4,000 supposed pollution deaths a year — a statistical trick wildly extrapolated from researchers’ guesswork.
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Sorry, “modelling”.
In fact London’s air hasn’t been cleaner in generations.
Don’t think this tax won’t trouble you because you never drive there.
Expect similar now anywhere in the country Labour or the Lib Dems wield power.
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They will use climate or “clean air” panic to justify any new hardship.
Help them, PM
GIVEN the terrifying heights energy costs hit after Russia’s invasion it is easy to think we are out of the woods.
Especially when Ofgem says the price cap will fall to its lowest in 18 months.
But without new Government help, the poorest and most vulnerable will be worse off this winter than last.
Downing Street cannot allow that.
It IS vital to wean Britain off the damaging notion that the State will always shield us from any economic emergency — a mindset entrenched by the Covid bailouts.
The vast majority of us must stand on our own two feet.
But the hardest-up will need help until energy prices revert to more normal levels, if indeed they do.
Rishi Sunak must devise such a scheme for millions in that bracket.
No one should have to turn off their heat to survive the extra costs of winter.
Bung for MPs
IT is bad enough that golden handshakes are to double for MPs voted out at election time.
But this generosity with taxpayers’ money is also being extended to those who choose to stand down.
More than 70 MPs — on £86,584 plus pensions, perks and expenses — have announced they won’t contest the election next year.
Why do they deserve four months’ salary after that?
A skint public considers politicians well-heeled enough.
Most will use their position, connections and experience to land even more lucrative jobs.
The MPs, in fairness, didn’t demand this for themselves.
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It’s a ruling by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which oversees their expenses.
That won’t make it easier for voters to swallow.