‘The best way for travellers to avoid COVID spread is to use private cars’

Don’t expect me to apologise for driving to and from the place I was born – London – because I won’t. Why drive there? For work purposes, social or family gatherings, medical facility appointments, shopping and the like. but for the past decade it’s been my (unpaid) part-time job as a volunteer/charity worker that’s seen me drive into the capital whatsoever hours. 
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I don’t do it for fun, I do it when it needs to be done in suitable vehicles. So my carbon footprint ain’t heavy, and my conscience is clear. as for some hypocritical, limo-using London politicians – I don’t know how they sleep at night. They are, after all, the ‘leaders’ who insist on hitting chauffeurs like me with their Congestion and Ultra low emission zone penalties – even when I deliver gifts and kit worth thousands of pounds to clients in cancer wards, as I did last week in the Marcus Rutherford Foundation/Young adult cancer count on battle bus/mobile clinic. 

London’s ULEZ expansion could fundamentally alter UK’s used-car market

It was during that out-of-hours run into London just before Christmas when it dawned on me that it’s time for us all to press our respective reset buttons. Those car-hating local and national politicians have to stop fleecing motorists and start recognising that without the circa £60billion we pay in annual motoring-related taxes, the UK economy will collapse. Honest.