A point that I forgot to mention in my post about the Tories and the environment yesterday. Boris Johnson is quoted as saying:
I associate road humps with the Liberal Democrats. I blame the Lib Dems for speed humps, which necessitate the need for 4x4s.
It is an interesting causal link. The flaw in this statement though should be apparent to anyone who has ever visited the London Borough of Barnet. Here, the Tory administration drained its highways budget for years ripping out traffic calming measures. I don’t know of any near where I live. Yet, if you throw a stone anywhere in the borough, it is likely to hit a 4×4.
I know it’s just good old Boris saying outrageous things in that posh, bumbling manner of his, but does anyone know when the man has anything that actually worth listening to?
Indeed.
That and the fact that the vast majority of car drivers do encounter speed humps but don’t drive 4x4s.
I suspect that Boris’ answer to that is that they would if they could.