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Good luck to his replacement trying to reverse a culture of wokedom.

Question is do you know if you're dead ?

Director General and News Chief Executive have just resigned.
Excellent. 

Bet they don't report it though

Apparently Little Genghis Khan is also going to charge EV,s the congestion charge from next year too.
Blows apart the lie that it is there to reduce pollution rather than a money making scheme.
Wont affect him though. He is Chauffeur driven around London in an armour plated Range Rover which is said to weigh over three tons.
He says he needs this for his own security.
Boris the Buffoon used to ride around London on his bike when he was Mayor. 

Personally Im all for them having to pay VED. They tend to be much heavier than ICE cars so cause more wear & tear on the roads, so if anything should pay more.
It was obvious it would happen at some point. When almost all vehicles are electric, the Govt. (of any colour) were never  going to just let the £ billions from VED just disappear.

Director General and News Chief Executive have just resigned.
Excellent. 

There is an element of Deja vu with this. We were all told diesels were the way forward. Now we are taxed and in some cities banned from using them.

I am so glad not to have gone EV. Maybe RR could negotiate a rebate from EU countries for miles completed abroad!

I applaud this policy, and I know how to disconnect the odometer on all my cars :-)

The Govt currently raises £25bn per year from petrol and diesel taxes. If (say) 50% of cars are electric or plug in hybrid by 2030 then that's a loss of £12Bn to the treasury. By 2040 it'll be closer to the full £25Bn since the only ones still using dinosaur juice will be those of us still driving classic cars. Something has to be done to plug that gap in funding. We may or may not like whatever they propose, but at least they have realised there is a looming issue, and are thinking about how to deal with it.

An interesting point has been raised on the skiing forums. Dover to the Alps and back is (roughly) 1200 miles, depending on destination. At 3p/mile thats £36. All those miles will show on your odometer, none of them are in the UK, but are you still going to get charged by HMRC?     

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b68c0106c7fa7283

Borrowed time after that. 

Ruined

Enjoy your next 30 years then. 

Will do.