Not Quite Fully Plugged In

Given that a proper public transport network would place us on the road to low-emission serfdom, it was only to be expected that Her Majesty's Government would be reluctant to subsidise electric cars. Despite the Brexit bonanza and the money saved through not having to match nurses' pay with inflation, the Treasury has voiced concern about costs. Since interference with the free market in fossil fuels is against the national religion, the grant has been cut for the second time in twelve months, reducing it to half of what it was a year ago. Even so, the leftist metropolitan élites in charge of car manufacture have demanded larger incentives for buyers and even a "strategic, longer-term approach," by which, hilariously enough, they seem to mean some sort of planning beyond the next press conference.