According to The Daily Mail, the Prime Minister is hoping to gain support from drivers by announcing a ‘Plan for Motorists‘ at the Tory conference early next week. 

Today’s Daily Express headline reads: Tories declare war against drivers is over!

Pro-motorist measures might include limiting council powers to impose 20mph zones and levy fines from traffic cameras and ensuring motorists get access to bus lanes for a minimum period.

Not only do we all need to reduce our dependency on cars but this policy would represent increased central “Whitehall” control over what should be devolved issues for decision making.

Neighbourhoods and communities have rights as well as car owners. Who has declared war?

Owl has often speculated that this obsession with motor cars may have resulted from Tories overdosing on, or being force fed, “Wind in the Willows” in their sensitive years. Resulting in an association with the entitled Mr. Toad, owner of Toad Hall who possessed large amounts of money but not much brain. Toad became mesmerised by automobiles, belching smoke, sound and fury, when his horse-drawn gypsy caravan was forced off the road. – Poop Poop. 

It didn’t end well for him.

Or perhaps car ownership in Britain is seen as a manifestation of “freedom” in the way that the right to bear arms is in the US.

PS Unlike “Winnie the Pooh”, the “Wind in the willows” doesn’t feature an Owl!