Source: spiked
by Austin Williams
“Nudging people out of driving has become a guiding principle of the modern Labour Party. It views cars as nothing but a menace to society – a threat to pedestrians and cyclists, and bad for the environment. Keir Starmer’s recently announced ‘Road Safety Strategy’ – a raft of measures designed to make life even more difficult for drivers – seemed, if anything, long overdue. As I found out recently, motoring is a slow, expensive business anywhere where Labour has been in power for a long time. Over the Christmas holidays, I drove from north to south Wales and back. Laden with presents, I assumed it would be cheaper and easier than taking the train. The incompetence of Transport for Wales, which has a regular supply of excuses for cancellations, initially reinforced this decision. It turned out, however, that the freedom of the open road wasn’t what it once was.” (01/23/26)