🔌🚗💥Kemi Badenoch has called it: the Tories plan to scrap the ban on petrol cars, because apparently realism is still clinging to life support in British politics. Meanwhile, Labour’s net-zero dream is stalling at the first service station, demanding we all plug in like it’s the Matrix — without the cables, the grid, or the money.
⚡ When Your Green Revolution Requires Wizardry and a Miracle Extension Lead
So let’s break it down: Labour’s plan to scrap petrol cars sounds great — if you live inside a futuristic tech ad narrated by David Attenborough and powered by unicorn tears. But in the real world?
🚗 How many chargers would we need? About one for every driveway, lamp post, chip shop, and possibly livestock.
⚡ How’s the electrical grid doing? Like a Victorian chimney sweep forced to power a Tesla — overworked, underfunded, and about to explode.
💸 What about fuel duty? It currently nets the Treasury over £25 billion. Kill petrol, and where’s that money coming from? Don’t say “billionaire tax.” That piano’s been played.
Labour is offering a blueprint for transformation that skips the whole infrastructure bit. You can’t electrify 30 million cars with vibes and bullet points. The grid isn’t a magical abyss. It has limits.
Until you’ve wired the nation like a cyberpunk dystopia and sorted out who’s paying for all this, banning petrol is just cosplay with policy paper.
🧯 You Can’t Fight Physics With Political Will
It’s not just about being green. It’s about being remotely functional.
The country’s barely got enough chargers for people who already own electric cars — let alone for Auntie Jean’s 2009 Micra.
This isn’t progress. It’s theatre. It’s standing in front of a burning haystack and announcing a ban on matches.
Until the grid can handle it, until the charging network makes sense, and until the Treasury figures out how to replace that delicious fuel duty cash — Labour’s plan is basically a PowerPoint slide in search of a power supply.
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Think we’re wrong? Think we’re right? Either way, the national grid isn’t ready, and neither is your driveway.
Tell us: What do you think comes first — chargers or bans? Grid upgrades or political grandstanding?
Hit the comments on the blog, not just Facebook. We want the real opinions, the real rants, the real you. 💬⚡
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