The kind of people who like freedom of movement via the EU, are the very people who are going to deny it to you and I. So far it is Canterbury and Oxford, but expect this vile idea to spread like a cancer, all in the name of Gaia.
A ‘draconian’ plan to stop people driving between neighbourhoods has come under fire for banning ‘free movement’ as it is approved for consultation.
Canterbury City Council is proposing to divide the city into five different districts, with drivers unable to cross between zones without being fined.
Instead, the council is asking residents to drive along a new bypass, which along with other A roads, would create a ring-road style approach.
To do so, they would have to leave their current neighbourhood and re-enter their chosen location via specific, newly permitted routes.
Anyone breaking the new driving rule would be hit with a fine when their movement is captured on number-plate recognition cameras, under the proposals.
Welcome to the new dystopia. No one voted for this. The jumped-up town clerks are stepping outside their remit of emptying the bins and keeping the streetlamps lit and corralling the people they are supposed to serve.
To anyone with a remotely functional moral compass, this idea is pure evil. It is not up to these puffed-up busybodies to spy on people and fine them for daring to move around in their own city, yet here we are. The frog finally got cooked.
While I am all for hanging these creatures, this idea can be crushed if people have a mind to do so, as with the clean air zones. In Birmingham, for example, there’s been a pushback.
More than 45,000 fines issued to drivers since the launch of Birmingham’s controversial Clean Air Zone have been written off by the city council, meaning it has given up on chasing the cash. The local authority has lost out on at least £2.7 million through fines it has been unable to collect.
This is the moment to use the eco-loonies’ weapon of choice against them: mass civil disobedience. If everyone in Oxford and Canterbury simply refused to cooperate, then, like the scum in Birmingham, the monsters behind these lockdowns will have no choice but to give up. It needs the ordinary people of this country to just simply refuse to go along with it. We are many, they are few, and it is time they were reminded of this. They are supposed to serve us, not the other way around. Otherwise, we are doomed.
That said, in Oxford, the good people are already fighting back.
Footage showing bollards used in a controversial scheme being removed, set alight and driven over has been released.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) were introduced in the Divinity Road, St Clement’s and St Mary’s areas of Oxford in May as part of a six-month trial.
Two Oxford-based residents’ groups, which support the scheme, said the footage was recorded in the summer.
When the lawmakers are the criminals, then criminality becomes the norm. When the democratic process results in dictators taking power, then democracy has failed. If there is no peaceful way to ensure liberty, then the old maxim about the tree of liberty being watered with the blood of martyrs becomes true. Although, to be fair, I prefer that it is watered with the blood of tyrants. And be under no illusion here, the people who proposed these schemes are tyrants.
Yeah, back to my original plan. Hang them. Hang them all.
Even leaving aside the freedom aspect, how in the name of Holy Gaia is this meant to work?
How is forcing people to drive a more circuitous route meant to save Gaia?
We are governed by morons.
Canterbury City Council is Conservative Party controlled. Clearly these people don’t have a conservative bone in their body.
So in effect you’ll need an internal passport to travel a few miles within your own neighbourhood to buy bread?
They intend turning Oxford and Canterbury into ghettos 1 to 6 or whatever and enforcing with an Orwellian network of spy cameras and an automated curtain twitcher/sheet sniffer to send out fines?
I’m just trying to imagine how dead inside anybody would need to be to enthuse about something so totally antithetical to any sort of normal, human activity and interaction as this.
Of course, as for the sheer havoc it will cause to business.
I don’t know about the banality of evil, but as for it’s sheer unfathomable stupidity!
Ghengis won’t be able to resist this.
*Every* resident hurt by these schemes should claim for a reduction in Council Tax as they are no longer able to use the entire council district fully. And the appeal the decision. Every year. And then vote for any council election candidate who promises to remove the scheme.
I prefer the Birmingham method. A mass refusal to participate. That really drives the message home.
So, not from the commune then your access is denied, Comrade.
Won’t take many cans of spray paint to render the cameras useless.
You forgot to mention that they are going to introduce a “a maximum of 100 such crossings into another zone per year”.
So if you live in one zone and work in another, you are screwed.
Per household as well, so yeah, stuffed.
I’m reminded of the images of the Nazi leaders being hanged after World War Two and I do think, sadly that it is going to come to that. Allister Heath in the Telegraph today pointed out people are reasonably happy to go along with this in principle until it starts to hit them personally. The protests seen in Birmingham you point out will be on steroids In the event of a meat tax being implemented (for example). And I think in fairness a few good hangings will concentrate some minds. Indeed I’d quite happily acquit anyone who publicly lynched an Oxford or Canterbury councillor who voted for the implementation of this..
Dear Mr Longrider
What is the difference between government and organised crime?
One is illegal.
But both are unlawful.
DP
You can trust most gangsters to stick to a deal and keep their word. Bad for business not to.
Not so the government.