On 11/05/2019 14:03, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:

JNugent wrote:

To what are you referring when you use the phrase "diesel disaster"?

The obvious disaster is the losses incurred by those who followed
government advice and incentives by buying diesel cars rather than
petrol and are now being penalised for it?

It must be that.

Exactly. Because government sponsored social engineering always works out so
well.

Does that mean that the government* is always right, even when it holds
serial contrary views?

Or does it mean that the victims were silly for believing Brown and co?

[* "Government" here meaning the regime under Blair and Brown who
rejigged the car taxation system so as to incentivise the purchase of
diesel cars and latterly, Khan in London, who effectively has swingeing
taxation powers over people who are not allowed to vote for or
(especially) against him.]