https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65736601
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 42174.html
So let’s all understand this. If you as an individual go off into London to earn a crust then if you drive you’ll (typically) have to pay congestion charges out of your own pocket. However MP’s, and perhaps others too, can reclaim the charge as a business expense!? Surely such a facility is not equitable and fails to both discourage the use of polluting vehicles and to improve air quality.
The spokesman added that the congestion charge can be claimed by MPs from outside London who drive into central London for work.
Is this yet another example of do as I say rather than do as I do? One rule for some and another for others …Clean air groups have written to parliament’s expenses watchdog asking it to stop MPs avoiding the anti-pollution charges, which are supposed to deter people from driving into central London and adding to its illegal levels of air pollution .