C-ing red

Veteran anti-traffic lights campaigner Martini Cassini lays into the Congestion Charge in The Grauniad.

They neutered a few bits, e.g. [the] original ending:

With wealth distribution regressing beyond 1937 levels, the charge increases living costs, damages city life and commerce. It is an invasive, punitive, parasitic, time-consuming burden which, despite the improperganda, has failed to ease congestion. Livingstone certainly pulled off some spoon-bending, but look closely, and you'll see it's a con(juring) trick with nothing to commend it, not even entertainment value.