In 1967 Britain had more electric vehicles on its roads than every other country on earth put together, and they were all delivering milk.
There were tens of thousands of them. The milk float: open sided, battery under the floor, top speed of about 15 miles an hour, and a whine you could pick out in your sleep. It was charged overnight at the depot and was back there by lunchtime.
It carried glass bottles. Each one was collected from your step the next morning, washed and refilled. A bottle went round like that 20 or 30 times before it broke. The foil cap went for scrap. There was no other packaging.
The milk had come from farms within a few miles, through a local dairy, and was on the step before 7.
So here is what the country had. A zero-emission delivery fleet. Reusable containers with a return rate any modern scheme would kill for. No plastic. A supply chain you could cycle the length of. A man who noticed if an old lady's bottles were piling up, and knocked.
It was dismantled in about 15 years, because a supermarket could sell milk a few pence cheaper in a plastic jug as a way of getting you through the door.
Every piece of that system is now the subject of a government target for 2040.
It was running in 1967, silently, in the dark, and nobody thought it was worth a mention.
So action can be impressively speedy!
What about the harm and abuse from scam adverts? The 100,000s who've lost money and had mental health damaged, many of whom were already vulnerable. Why nothing for them, its been TEN YEARS! Please, it has to stop.
🚨BREAKING: A petition demanding the officers involved in arresting Henry Nowak are prosecuted has just hit 130,000
It's gaining thousands every hour.
All of Britain demands JUSTICE! 🇬🇧
This is utterly disgusting.
While Restore MP @RupertLowe10 read harrowing testimonies from grooming gang survivors, girls raped by dogs, violated with glass bottles that shattered inside them, and passed around by gangs of men, Whom I believe to be Dame Antonia Romeo sat there repeatedly checking her watch like she had somewhere better to be.
No shame. No empathy. Just bureaucratic indifference.
This is the senior civil servant (now even higher) supposedly running key parts of the Home Office and civil service. If this is the attitude at the top clock-watching while British girls' suffering is laid bare no wonder the country is broken.
Priorities completely inverted.
The establishment doesn't care. Time to drain the swamp.
🚨WOMAN GOES ON EPIC RANT AT KEIR STARMER
This is AMAZING 👏
"ARE YOU LISTENING KEIR STARMER?"
- He's a man who doesn't love Britain
- He ERASED our National Identity
- He has betrayed the British people
Listen to this
She speaks for MILLIONS 🔥
This is fantastic.
Croydon decided to implement Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, blocking cars from accessing various roads and fining people £160 per infraction.
They ran the scheme for two years.
Now the High Court has ruled them unlawful as they were implemented for profit and not to reduce traffic at all.
Millions of pounds must be returned to people who were fined. If you were fined during that time you have to request a refund.
Diet Angela Rayner and the Green reatards, have just lowered the draw brigade as Christopher Hitchens predicted years ago!
The Barbarians are now at the gates.
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5 years 💔
The message remains the same - check in on loved ones. Lets keep pushing for real change and true support for players. For Jez 🤍
#SuicideAwareness#JeremyWisten 🕊️
I have agonised over making this public as I didn’t wanted to embarrass the party but after two emails with no response I feel I have to share my concerns at what seems to be a freedom of speech issue.
I have done no media this year or interviewed anyone.
🚨An elected Councillor in Burnley has said 'good riddance' to Charlie Kirk and encouraged violence against another, presumably Donald Trump.
Make her famous.
She must resign.
MATCHDAY 🟣🔵
An important night as we travel to the midlands looking to bring home the three points
🗓️ Friday 29th August
🆚 Athlone Town
🏆 LOI 1st Division
🏟️ Athlone Town Stadium
⏰ Kick-off 7.45pm
📺 Live on LOITV https://t.co/wuVCy7JIi6
Come on the RAMS!! 🟣🔵
#crfc
🚨 BREAKING: The New Owners Of Chelsea Football Club Are Evicting Veterans Living In 80 Flats In The Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions To Make Way For Illegal Migrants After Owners Enter In To Discussions With Hammersmith And Fulham Council 😡
These Veterans Fought For Me And You, It's Time We Fight For Them
This Cannot Be Allowed To Happen!