Air Pollution Tax (or, the Ultra Low Emissions Zone Charge) is a CUNT !

New emissions zone to hit drivers with £12.50 a day ‘pollution tax’

“City Hall” estimates that up to 60,000 road users a day will be hit by the Ulez fee in its first stage, and that number will rise to 138,000 when the zone is extended to the North and South Circular ring roads. All diesel cars built before 2015 are subject to the charge, along with pre-2005 petrol cars.

I have several reasons to CUNT this….

1. There was a tv programme on air pollution last year.
A trial was carried out on a german city. Air pollution measuring equipment was installed at set points. Half the city banned diesel vehicles from driving through. The other half carried on as normal.
Difference in pollution levels ? Less than 1%. Conclusion : Environmental bollocks.

2. diesel cars pre 2015 / petrol cars pre-2005 affected :-
These are roughly, 31.6 million cars on uk roads. 12.5 M diesel, 18.7 M petrol, 400k electric/alternative fuels (only 15,400 new electric cars were sold in the uk in 2018, and that is a new ‘high’ of 6% ; in 2013, electric car sales were less than 1%). Lets be generous & assume only 40% of petrol cars are pre 2005. Based on new diesel car sales since 2015, approx 95% of diesel cars are pre 2015. The UK government recommended people buy diesel cars as they produce less CO than petrol engines. CUNTS
If this sort of ‘pollution’ tax was rolled out to all UK cities, approx 20 Million motorists would be affected.

3. “We want to encourage people to update their cars to modern less polluting ones” :-
Typical ‘Joe Public’ used car – 2009 Vauxhall Astra diesel hatchback ; cost to buy today = £1,100
Air polution ‘tax exempt’ car – 2018 VW Golf ‘electric’ hatchback £24,495
Cost to upgrade your car = £23,395

For someone driving into the zone twice a month; 24 x £12.50 = £300/year ; you’ll keep your old ‘polluting’ car.
For people doing the drive daily, it will completely price them out of the area, resulting in more lost jobs & income. (If you could afford that kind of money for a newer car – you’d already have upgraded.This clean air tax is another excuse to pick peoples pockets. Working people reliant on driving into London for their jobs will be priced out.

CUNTS who introduce these taxes, are driven around in new cars; tax, mot, insurance, fuel, driver, etc, all funded by the taxpayers.

I’m all for limiting air pollution, but in a long term planned way. The UK government never plans long term – they lurch from one issue to another. They are always ‘shocked’ at reports/studies highlighting problems, despite the fact that they comissioned most of them, and have ignored the reports published previously, hoping that ‘the next’ government will tackle that, or hoping that the issues will just ‘go away’.
When problems are highlighted (newspapers, mainstream news or ‘action’ groups), they either throw money at it (which ‘magically’ appears), or more often than not, introduce a tax (to force change for the better) as is the case here.
It won’t force change. ‘Joe Public’ doesn’t have a spare £20grand down the side of the sofa.
The taxes will increase. The poorest will pay. The ‘Cunt Elite’ will be unaffected.

Nominated by Lord of the Rings

This tired and unwatchable piece of shit that won’t flush is still limping along well into its 6th decade; still features that loud Uber-cunt showoff Matt Fuckson. Every year the guests are either thick as shit ex-pros already on the extensive BBC Sport payroll or are sportspersons ‘known only to their own bathroom mirror’. These typically represent some obscure wimminz one-armed shove h’appeny type ‘sport’ that AlBeebistan deems it necessary to shove down our throats (see also Women’s Football watched by nobody).

I wonder what that Lucinda posh tits Showjumper does these days.

Nominated by Isaac Hunt

Australia is set to introduce new laws that could imprison social media executives if they allow violence to be streamed on their platforms, following the New Zealand terror attack. The bills have been proposed in response to the 15 March mosque attacks in Christchurch, which were live streamed on Facebook.

Abhorrent violent material is defined as acts of terrorism, murder, attempted murder, torture, rape and kidnapping.

Oh good. How thoughtful of the Australian government. Except such legislation is about 10 years too late. Type “beheading” into Google and click on “Videos” and you’ll see all the delightful postings of Islamic fundamentalists, still there several years after being posted. But that stuff didn’t happen on the antipodean doorstep did it? No snowflakes were traumatised until the attack on the New Zealand mosque, so it is only now that legislation is required.

The attack on the mosque was a tragedy. The hypocrisy stinks nonetheless.

Nominated by Sgt Maj Cunt

A nomination for Virgin Atlantic airlines for the following lunacy:
Virgin Atlantic is to replace its traditional emblem with a diverse range of men and women “representing modern Britain”.
Among the people wearing a red leotard in the updated artwork – to be put on its new A350-1000 fleet – will be a black man and black woman, and a gay man.

Nikki Humphrey, senior vice president of people at Virgin Atlantic, said: “The saying goes ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’ and that has never been truer than the aviation industry’s glamorous image in the past.
“By introducing our new flying icons I hope it encourages people from all backgrounds to feel at home flying with us, but also working with us.”

Ok, so to represent modern Britain, what about featuring a barbarian brandishing a knife, a vacuous millenial with a phone glued to his/her/its head, a shrieking blue haired feminista etc…

What this country has only become…….

Nominated by Mystic Maven

I reckon that Sky News deserves a cunting.

Today (13 April 2019) it put out a story concerning the tragic death of a ten-year-old at a caravan park in Looe, Cornwall. The boy could not be saved by emergency services after being attacked by ‘a bulldog-type breed’ of dog. The report then stated that a woman had been charged on suspicion of manslaughter and having a dog dangerously out of control.

So far, so sad, I’m sure you’ll all agree. But then, what do the geniuses at Sky do by way of concluding their report? Why, they only give what amounts to a crass and tasteless plug for the park in question.

‘Tencreek Holiday Park’, the report informs us, ‘hires out static caravans to holiday makers, and also has pitches for tents and motor homes. Facilities include an indoor swimming pool, sports pitch, kids’ club and restaurant’.

Well thanks for that, Sky. You make it sound like the perfect destination to head for next time I’m thinking of getting one of the grandkids savaged by an out of control dog.
Your cringeworthy attention to detail on the subject of the park’s excellent facilities will no doubt also be of great comfort to the bereaved family.

Thoughtless twats.

Nominated by Ron Knee