MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Our tolerance is being tested to the limit

Daily Mail​

3 days ago

When they drew up the list of human rights 80 years ago, they forgot a very important one: the right of the people not to be insulted by their own governments.
Did anyone in that era even dream that tax money, squeezed from those who actually work, could be used to buy pizza and pay for circus trips for illegal immigrants? Of course not.
In those days socialists were serious people who did not fool with public cash, and knew where it came from.
But they have gone, replaced with a new generation of radical liberals who use the old labels but who seem to despise the respectable, the thrifty and the hardworking, who have repeatedly voted for them.
Well, now the joke is over. Seeing that their leaders openly despise them, voters are turning elsewhere.
The revelations unearthed by Nigel Farage 's new efficiency audit, in local authorities recently captured by Reform UK, are teeth-grindingly, wall-punchingly, shout-out-loud infuriating.
Very few of us worked those long hours, went on the long commute, sacrificed precious hours with children, to pay for local authorities to feast illegal migrants (often posing as children when they aren't) in Nando's, or fork out for them to order in from Domino's at their free accommodation – which we also paid for.
These details are enough to make a maiden aunt curse out loud.
Not merely do our leaders utterly fail to control our own borders. They indulge, with little luxuries, those who have broken the law to come here.
Now that this is in the open, will it stop? For the sake of our future as a tolerant nation, a way must very soon be found to end it.
Sadiq and a spiteful war on hard workers
Motorists have become the easiest target for politicians on the make, and in need of money.
Any attack on those who use cars and vans to get to work will be applauded by anti-car Green pressure groups.
And, as it is virtually impossible to live a normal life without minor speeding infractions or parking fines, these charges have become, in effect, a tax on work and life.
In city after city, various schemes dressed up as environmental progress make this problem worse.
Now London's Mayor, Labour's Sir Sadiq Khan, is accused of orchestrating a new war against motorists, painting more double yellow lines, cutting parking spaces, increasing the price of permits and expanding controlled parking zones where such permits are needed.
The scheme, revealed unintentionally, does not seem that different from many policies already being pursued.
These measures are more or less spiteful, simultaneously making life harder for drivers and milking them of more and more cash. They will not make life pleasanter. Sir Sadiq and
his fellow local government mandarins have done little to curb the growing menace of lawless electric bikes and scooters, an urgent problem.
The main effect of these plans will be to damage small business and make it harder for people to work at all.
If Sir Sadiq wants fewer cars on the road, he needs to provide better, cheaper, cleaner and safer public transport, as all the truly great cities of the world do.