Imagine if I told you that people being able to walk and bike to most of the things they need to do day-to-day was an Orwellian left-wing plot to take away people’s freedom and rights. Imagine if I told you that this was believed at the highest level of the UK government, where it’s considered a Stalinist plot, and attacks on it were included in official Transport Ministry documents? What would you say?
Well, start saying it, because this is where we are in 2023. Attacking livable cities and the people who want to enable them is now the official party line of the UK government. What was once just another loony right-wing conspiracy theory has become mainstream. If it weren’t for the past 15 years of dealing with conspiracy ideation in climate change denial, anti-renewables nonsense,…
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