Anyone wandering Labour Conference this year can’t have missed the enormous Motability Scheme stand plonked in the middle of the Exhibition Hall. Front and centre, a gleaming ‘Evita car’ on display. It wasn’t there last year…
This despite the ongoing fury over thousands pocketing taxpayer-funded luxury cars for bogus ailments like ‘tennis elbow’, ‘frozen shoulder’, and ‘generalised anxiety’. Guido’s checked last year’s conference map – no sign of them. Hardly surprising, seeing as Labour confirmed they’ve no intention whatsoever of touching the scheme…
The nominal reason they are there is to promote the need for wheelchair accessible electric vehicles. Labour have already committed to a petrol and diesel car phase out by 2030, plus an additional£700 million of taxpayer-funded subsidies to get people buy EVs. Motability letting the good times roll…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”