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So basically ULEZ collects no money then. I guess Londoners are just whinging for nothing then. Although this article says there were £218 million in unpaid fines. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ulez-fines-london-drivers-tfl-ultra-low-emission-zone-b1159131.html

That really is amateur.

They can often make EVs more expensive for a journey than an ICE, especially diesel.

The problem is that, given the cost of EVs, it will probably be the average working man who will be paying through the nose to drive those more polluting, noisier cars. Just as is happening with your mate Khan’s ULEZ. The tiffs can afford compliant cars, the worse off can’t,

And extremely expensive.

The PFI costs at UHCW are pretty enormous and the operating company very inflexible when trying to change things. The last annual report shows £27m in mainly PFI interest and nearly £7m in mainly PFI capital charges. The doctor you mention was understating the PFI cost enormously. Still, we can...

Well, they usually have something to say about increasing public borrowing and national debt.

Will the OBR need to publish an opinion on that?

That’s a really interesting article. It seems that the Tories did recognise that PFI wasn’t a great idea, and fairly early on. But Blair and Brown promoted it and legislated to facilitate it, keeping investment off the public books. IIRC accountancy rule changes actually brought PFI back into...

Well that’s a step in the right direction.

Mine have been added, purchased 20 May, points added 5 June.

Trouble is, like parking, there are lots of apps. What really pisses me off is when you need to use an app and there is either no mobile signal or crap mobile data speeds which is often the case on the Hampshire/ Dorset coast. At least with petrol you can use a credit card.

EV infrastructure - crap.

I’m not sure that demand for council houses depleted by the same amount. There were always young people coming into the market, waiting lists and the like. To be blunt, when a tenant died, the house was available to rent, when a RTB owner died the house wasn’t available to rent. I would imagine...

I have also wondered what the carbon footprint of all this e tech is. I wonder if you can Google it.

I did check my facts, I was quoting total emissions not per capita. Given China’s population is 21 times that of the UK and their per capita emissions are 1.4 times that of the UK, China produces about 30 times as much CO2 as the Uk. Their emissions are increasing to an extent which would...

I was looking at it as not being great from the point of view of affordable rental housing stock being taken out of the market. Not from the point of view of making a huge capital gain like some people did.

It will be interesting to see how sales go as the deadline is approached. The irony is that there will probably be a lot of relatively cheap Chinese EVs bought, all produced in the top CO2 producing country in the world at 30 times UK.

FFS there are multiple posts with this information on this thread.

I.E. they don’t want to be honest. If they were up front and still won the election, at least they could legitimately say they had a mandate for whatever tax shenanigans they have up their sleeves- presumably most of what they are refusing to rule out.