Leftist Doubethink. Trees bad and cars also bad.

Can someone explain this to me.

On the one hand we have councils cutting down trees -on health & safety grounds -these are the same trees which as we are continually told help to protect the environment, absorb lots of carbon as well as making for a greener landscape for urban dwellers. Article in The Times Online on urban trees being felled.

Then they decide to up the charges on 4X4 cars claiming that they are damaging the now tree free environments. Article from Times Online on 4X4 taxs being charged upto 25 pounds a day. Were I a resident in London or one of the other - now largely tree free - cities I would be a lot more concerned about the lunatics who think that urban tree removal is a good policy.

Of course cars are an easy target, maybe they need to look at how much damage is being done to the environment - the environment that their electors live in by the way - by their removal of urban trees.

That said logical joined up thinking is not one we have come to expect from either local or national government.

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