The battle to stop ULEZ has failed in London, but the fight still continues up North in Manchester.
The Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham put the implementation of a huge ULEZ zone covering Greater Manchester on hold last year. The reason being that it would but an unfair burden on familes at a time of financial crisis.
Note the lack of the word cancelled. It's just on hold, a temporary hiatus.
The thing with the Manchester scheme is it's immense size and the huge number of people affected. But do we really need a ULEZ that encompasses the moors of the Pennines, or the vast tracts of open farming land between Manchester and Liverpool?
No, is the answer. Burnham was called out for trying to implement a clean air zone where they is already clean air.
But of course there are those that want to press ahead with ULEZ despite it impoverishing a whole county.
Various pressure groups are trying to get Burnham to press ahead with the Manchester ULEZ scheme, seemingly unaware that they are in a miniscule minority and without a sense of self-awareness.
Just why should the majority be penalised for the problems of the minority?
Just why should the majority of those affected have to buy new cars to comply with ULEZ? Why can't the minority affected by air quality just move to the country? Both are equally punitive measures, but at least the second affects a teeny minority and allows the rest of the county to continue as normal?
Of course the clean air zealots will say they can't afford to move. Well, join the fucking club you bunch of muppets.
I have still to work out how the thousands of MINORITY INTEREST pressure groups have so much sway over national and local government. Even worse it's highly likely that taxpayer money is being funnelled into these pressure groups so they can lord it over the majority.
We have to stop pandering to minorities. We have to stop funding minority interest groups that use their power and influence to overturn majority interests.
It has to stop.
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