He's built it up piece by piece, so we didn't get the whole picture at once (also it may be a bit like boiling a frog, he's eased people into it) but it does feel like something out of the Trump playbook and really quite a desperate move.
That frog thing has been debunked, as soon as the water gets too hot they try to leave.
Can't even rely on the frogs these days.
When I look at the people who think LTNs and 15-minute cities are an evil scheme to deny people their freedom… I think that the fear is real, but is mis-attributed to the schemes that would make their lives better, rather than placed on the shoulders of the increasingly fascist Tory government where it should be. Real fear, but afraid of the wrong thing. So of course the Tories benefit from making sure nobody realises who their real enemy is.
