I see Ken Livingstone is at it again. He is going to charge the owners of Chelsea Tractors £25 a day for taking their gas guzzlers into “town”.
If respiratory physicians at the Brompton Hospital wanted to spend taxpayers’ money on a healthcare initiative to improve the environment for asthma and bronchitis sufferers they would have to produce a strong evidence base to justify the expenditure. Let us reduce pollution by all means, but will charging stockbrokers’ wives another £25 a day for doing the school run in central London have any impact?
Foul emissions? It's just another stealth tax
