Mayor Khan's journey mirrors ex-Mayor Johnson's.
Vapid poseurs, they have had nothing to offer but to depart from representing their publics, to instead champion the green cause, which the voter expressed no interest in.
Vapid poseurs, they have had nothing to offer but to depart from representing their publics, to instead champion the green cause, which the voter expressed no interest in.
https://twitter.com/clim8resistance/status/1441121213951188995
Air pollution is to local government what climate change is to national government. These issues excuse administrators from the duties they were appointed to execute, but are not equal to. So they preoccupy themselves with higher goals: stopping traffic, rather than enabling it.
In the case of Khan, the opportunity to champion air quality was given to him by billionaire Chris Hohn, who spent £millions turning climate change into a local issue -- air quality -- thus enabling the Mayor to have something to say.
Some of the story of how that happened is really quite dark indeed. Really very sinister.
But this is a cliff hanger.
But this is a cliff hanger.
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