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So it's Monday morning, the UK government announces that petrol and diesel cars are no longer. They make clear that this is permanent.

A ton of people now have vehicles that are basically scrap metal, they've lost tens of thousands overnight. There are physically not enough EVs, or charging infrastructure, or maybe even the grid capacity in order for people to switch.

By 10am, immigration lawyers' phones around the world are off the hook.

If you phase it, then you're just describing what is already happening, this is what coordinated action looks like.



By 1pm current PM and MPs would meet the destiny of King Charles I. by hand of its own voters.


God Save the King.




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