Government has failed to act on air pollution, says Labour

Tommy Monk wrote:

Labour has accused the government of failing to act on air pollution, which it says is a "public health emergency".

The party said millions of people in the UK were living in areas with illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and called air pollution levels a "national scandal".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39678321


More Labour hypocrisy... as it was labour who encouraged people to buy diesel engine cars for years while in government...


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11368568/Labour-made-wrong-decision-over-diesel-car-tax-admits-shadow-minister.html

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:

Labour has accused the government of failing to act on air pollution, which it says is a "public health emergency".

The party said millions of people in the UK were living in areas with illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and called air pollution levels a "national scandal".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39678321


More Labour hypocrisy... as it was labour who encouraged people to buy diesel engine cars for years while in government...


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11368568/Labour-made-wrong-decision-over-diesel-car-tax-admits-shadow-minister.html

I believe it is known as selective amnesia.

To be fair, the proven fuel economy of diesels together with the then perceived "cleanliness" so far as emissions were concerned, lower possibility of fire in an accident and sturdier, longer lasting engines did make sense at the time.

The organisation for which I worked replaced its entire 200 car fleet over a period of a couple of years or so and that's when I was issued with my first diesel, a Peugeot. I've driven diesel ever since and now have a two litre BMW with, supposedly, one of the cleanest of diesel engines; my road tax costs only thirty quid a year.

Frankly, if we went back to ponies and traps, whichever government was in power would come up with a range of excuses for taxing them.