Crushing The Poor – Chapter 1,659

Today London becomes the first of over 20 cities to be introducing a ‘Toxicity Charge’ for diesel cars over 11 years old. These are the same diesel cars various governments, and especially Gordon Brown’s,  told buyers were less polluting and better for the environment than petrol vehicles so ‘buy, buy, buy’. Older diesel cars are disproportionately owned by poorer people who will now be stung for £21 per day for bringing their killer boxes of poison into the capital city. Large businesses, building contractors who use juggernauts and diggers, city firms using air conditioning and  diesel black cab drivers on the streets for 8 hours per day will not be paying. The argument for reducing air pollution in urban areas is sound – in the last ten years there have been over 100,000 pollution related deaths for every terrorist created death – but there is…