As you may have noticed, we’ve seen rather more wokery than greenery from the Green party since Zack Polanski took the helm. If you’re wondering why, a party policy document on transport, revealed by the Mail, might give you a clue. The party wants to reduce motorway and dual carriageway speed limits to 55 mph, impose Welsh-style 20 mph limits in towns and (according to some sources) slap on a default 40 mph elsewhere. The party would hike fuel taxes, make parking more difficult even outside one’s own home, and bring in a more demanding driving test including such things as knowledge of how a car works, and impose it on drivers every five years. Driving would explicitly be made a privilege and not a right.

The Greens may be proudly libertarian in matters like drugs and borders, but they have a nasty authoritarian streak

The Greens may be proudly libertarian in matters like drugs and borders, but they have a nasty authoritarian streak

We can start with the easiest point: these are terrible ideas. The Greens may be proudly libertarian in matters like drugs and borders, but there is a nasty authoritarian streak in their talk of rights and privileges, as if UK drivers needed to be........

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