Good, in my opinion, to see the Government fail in the Courts on the issue of air pollution and public health.
Ministers have been told to provide details of a strategy to combat air pollution [strategy, ha!!] in the very near future.
bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39737981
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The Torys still have the electoral fraud prosecutions hanging over them with 14 forces still investigating
They exhale more frequently than an Anglo Saxon.
The problem is the government have been incredibly bad at communicating this, whilst headline writers think "Diesels to be banned" is a far catchier headline than "Some diesels over a certain age that don't meet the latest standards may get banned from certain places".
Can the government persuade the haulage industry to scrap hundreds of thousands of trucks, lorries and vans and use clean electric or cleaner petrol as fuel for new fleets ? .. little chance methinks without huge subsidies and the associated upheaval and economic impact.
It seems that nowadays 'the government' is to be blamed for everything and never a thought for how the habits and behaviour of the 'general public' are to blame for problems like pollution and many other problems which 'the government should do something about'.
As with rifles and guns in America, one of the slogans of the NRA is 'I'll give up mine when you give up yours' .. the same can be said for vehicle owners in the UK
It's slightly unfair to blame Brown/Blair by themselves for the diesel fiasco, as this has been common policy across the EU. Nobody else has adopted diesel like the EU; the US, Japan and China have a fraction of the number of diesel cars.
And what's with judges being 'left-wing apologists'? They are one of the most middle-class (at least), right-wing groups around.