On 6 Nov, 14:17, Neill wrote:

The sun is shining and you can't see any of those nasty leftwing
troublemakers who'll be sacked now. The picture is pretty accurate,
'cos bike and expensive taxi will be the only way to get around when
all the strikes those job cuts will spawn come along. Unless you have
a 4x4 of course, as they don't cause congestion according to Boris.

It is a fact that a 4x4 causes no more of a traffic jam than a
normally-sized car. A Land Rover Defender SWB, for instance, is as I
recall shorter and narrower then a Vauxhall Corsa.

There is an argument for a pollution charge to be made against such
vehicles (and also against large-engined sports cars, whatever their
physical size), but it is then not a *Congestion* Charge, it is a
*Pollution* charge. These are two different things, and I think Boris
is being quite honest in making this clear.

Neil