My Cold, Dead Hands

February 20, 2021 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Political, Transport 12

You can take my car keys from my cold, dead hands. Because I am not, under any circumstances, whatsoever, giving them up without a fight.

Motorists are to be given up to £3,000 to replace their cars with greener forms of transport.

Drivers in built-up areas with the most polluting cars will receive public money to abandon their vehicle for ‘credits’.

These will be used on alternative modes of transport such as bicycles and electric scooters but will also work on congestion-easing forms like public transport, car clubs and taxis.

Once again, I am reminded of that scene in Dr Zhivago where the family house is given out by the state according to its assessment of need, having been taken from the original owners. This is different in many ways, but the underlying drive is the same. Collectivism in all its gory misanthropy.

The personal car is liberty and the people behind this despise personal liberty. And, which is more, they intend to use our own money to bribe us.

12 Comments

  2. This line of thinking goes back a long way. I can remember when John Prescott was constantly on the radio blathering on about how the Government were going to get people out of their cars and onto public transport. Having visited London, I can see why people living there would be happy to give up their cars because it is so gridlocked that almost any other form of transport is quicker. The rest of the country isn’t like that though, is it?

  3. Since I got my licence at 17, my car has given me the freedom to go where I want, when I want and with whom I want. The greenies and their crazy notion of using electric vehicles to restrict our movement have pushed me into using older cars with large petrol engines (and no electronics). Our police state has been increasingly restricting our freedom for some years and this lockdown has taken it completely, so if the morons who think they control us expect to take my vehicle away….. words fail me, actions won’t

  4. Stonyground got it exactly – their Londoncentric thinking stinks. It’s not the centre of the universe and conditions there are totally irrelevant to 95% of the country. I regard it as the nation’s armpit for msny reasons . . .

  5. It also needs saying that electric vehicles are really not green. The batteries are a serious environmental issue and the energy that they use comes mostly from fossil fuels. The claim of zero emmissions is simply a lie. One line of thinking is that my nine year old diesel car may well outlive me, so I won’t ever have to replace it. However, I’m sure the government will be think of other devious ways of forcing me to change it.

  6. Yup, once you get out of the large urban areas, the transport options thin out. I also love the freedom that car and motorcycle ownership gives me.

  7. This story has been covered at “Not a lot of people know that”. In the comments there was one guy fantasizing about the wonderful paradise, the golden age of public transport that apparently existed when he was a kid. I remember this golden age too. How did people manage without cars? Easy, they just didn’t go anywhere. We had a tiny village shop. A lot of stuff was bought from Vans that did the rounds of the villages. Butcher van, bread van, fishmonger van, household products van. Hands up anyone who thinks that these would be cheaper than a supermarket. The methodist church used to organise an annual coach trip to Bridlington. The fact that this event was referred to as “Trip” tells you all you need to know, there was no need to ask which trip was being referred to, there was only one “Trip”. Wouldn’t it be great to have a one way time tunnel so that all those who hate the modern world could be sent back in time to the golden age of their choosing. Once rid of them the rest of us can get on with improving the present. If that fails we could pick a golden age of our own.

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