"End the War on Motorists" - a response from more enlightened times

More on Philip Hammond's promise to "end the war on motorists", which we mentioned briefly the other day.

It has been drawn to our attention that the late, great Beachcomber had robust opinions on motorists:

O fractious monster, is it not enough that whole villages are being demolished and towns replanned to please you? For you the countryside is littered with hideous garages, and the cities become car-parks. Yours is the freedom to drench the air with the stink from your machine, and to harry the pedestrian with impunity. For you are the abominable lamp-standards erected, with their ghoulish light. For your gratification landscapes are reshaped, hedges torn out, quiet valleys desecrated, woods cut down, winding lanes straightened and broadened. What more do you want, arch-fool of the world, and pest of every common man?

Will Caroline Lucas be similarly forthright? We can only hope so.