This is the day I start the call the far left loonies an new name: Left-Leaning fascists. Because if it quacks like a Fascist, walks like a Fascist, then it is most likely to be an actual fascist.
Allow me to introduce the 15 minute city concept and the people who have just started in the last couple of weeks to deny it's a thing in order to criticise the Conservative Government's announcement that it will set up legislation to oppose it.
The 15-minute city is another supra-national concept that is being promoted by governments across the world. Initially as a concept is sounds benign: at it's most basic it's about ensuring that all goods and services are available within a 15 minute walk from your house. Sounds wonderful , doesn't it?
Your doctor, your shops, your hospital and all essential services will be by design only 15 minutes away. Then you can ditch your car and cycle everywhere.
Except, amongst the goods and services provided will be jobs. You'll never need to leave your 15 minute area because you will work, play, sleep, shop, live and die all within that 15 minute area. There will be no need to leave your 15 minute area, ever.
Now, on it's own it sounds like utopia. Finally city councils across the country and indeed the world will be working to provide all we need in our local neighbourhood.
Until that is, you look at the bigger picture and how (if you don't comply with the 15 minute neighbourhood idea) they will Enforce your stay within your zone.
Take Oxford. The city council there proposes splitting the city up into zones. You can travel within your zone as much as you want, but travel directly between zones will be limited to 100 trips per year.
Of course you will still be free to travel between zones, but you will have to pay a fine for each additional trip over the 100. So if you Live in Zone A and work in Zone C, you will eventually be forced to stop using your car for the journey.
Of course the supporters of this idea promote the good: cleaner air, shorter journeys done by non-polluting means, you know by now the usual cheery rhetoric used by the authoritarians.
What they don't promote that well is the enforcement. Fines, bigger fines if you transgress more, smaller zones and more draconian terms inflicted later once the initial steps are accepted and the enforcement infrastructure is in place.
Of course this is all decried as a conspiracy theory by the Fascist Left. They say that the 15 minute city proposals are nice cuddly neighbourhoods where you have everything at your fingertips.
It's merely a coincidence they say, that Oxford council have around the same time come up with proposals to split the city into separate zones (coincidentally very similar to the 15 minute zones) and to limit the number of times you can travel between these zones by enforcement cameras.
Yeah, and I'm THAT gullible.
This article by the United Nations paints a wonderfully rosy picture of the 15 minute city: The 15 Minute City | UNFCCC but it is the ENFORCEMENT aspect of climate control in cities along with these plans that those of us that can join the dots and see how the two will eventually work hand-in-glove.
The creepy thing is that JOBS will be included in the 15 minute city proposals. So who provides the jobs? How do they stop you driving a car out of your 15 minute area to a job in another part of the city or another city altogether? Of course the answer is enforcement.
They will limit your travel by introducing the local enforcement cameras and by eventually introducing pay-per-mile. I'm sure the enforcement cameras will be used to charge you more per mile if you leave your zone. The temptation will be too great to keep you in your zone under the auspices of reducing pollution.
So, is it really a conspiracy theory that 15 minute cities are not the benign things that the ideologues on the left promote.
I certainly think there is more to the 15 minute city that the Fascist Left are letting on. If you don't realise that, you are a mug.
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