Mayor of Anti-Car London Council Boasts of Taxpayer-Funded Limo
The Mayor of the anti-car Labour-run London council of Lambeth – the first UK local authority to declare a climate emergency in 2019 – has boasted of being driven around in a taxpayer-funded limousine. The Telegraph has more.
John-Paul Ennis, the 27-year-old Lambeth Mayor, discussed the perks of the job – including transport in a “nice car”, which he described as a “vibe” – on TikTok.
Mr Ennis told DJ AG, an influencer, that the title was “mad” and “sick”, and said it was “pretty nice” to wear the ceremonial chain that came with it.
In 2019, Lambeth imposed higher parking fees after becoming the first local authority to declare a climate emergency. It is the most expensive borough in London in which to park per hour at £13.23, according to the Times.
In the social media clip, Mr Ennis is asked by DJ AG if he could get a free permit because of the prices in the south London borough. The Mayor suggests that he parks at Tesco for a few hours and then “move the car around”.
Since its climate emergency declaration, the council has dramatically expanded the use of controlled parking zones in areas where parking was previously free.
It has also spent £3.4 million on controversial low traffic neighbourhoods in the past five years, despite a financial strategy report last year predicting a budget deficit of nearly £70 million over the next four years.
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Government of the people by the twerp for the twerps.
Someone please send for Madame Guillotine.
To think of all the greats that this country has produced over the past 500 years – and we end up with this pig-ignorant nonentity.
A majority of the Lambeth electorate need their heads seeing to, and then their name removed from the electoral roll.
He seems to have the mentality of a teenager. Let’s hope he grows up sooner rather than later.
He has the mentality of a juvenile. That won’t change.
If that’s what most of the people of Lambeth want then they can have it. Too late to complain now.
True, but I still feel sorry for the people who voted for a grownup.
My forecast (based on previous examples) is that everything will go swimmingly until ne accidentally steps out of the Labour line or offends one of the Labour Big Wigs, and then he will be rapidly removed. He might not even know why.
Well, this guy is the classic political carrierist.
By the way, this was a fundamental problem of communism too. Although they tried to recruit the nomenclature from the proletariat, as soon as someone was lifted out of the ordinary ranks of proletariat to even a slightly privileged level, they stopped being part of the proletariat.
For this reason alone, any socialist/communist system is inherently corrupt.
Looks like the amiable gormless type. I suppose he got a plum job. Being driven around in a limo, surrounded perhaps by high class prossies and served by a twisted kneeling dwarf with a bowl of cocaine on his head. In terms of his language I guess you have to consider that he was talking to DJ AG. It has been like this for decades with every little sub epoch containing the seeds of decadence for the further deterioration and you could see them clearly if you cared about such things but they just slid further and further on.
Some might even contest the 9 years bit.
A good advert for raising the voting age to something like 50.
These are the sorts of people who will assume power if no one else will.