Labour Council Installs ‘Socialist Speed Bumps’
10th January 2026
A Labour council has been accused of building “socialist speed bumps” that scrape high-performance and luxury family cars.
Residents on an affluent street in Lewisham, south-east London, say the local authority has installed sleeping policemen that are prone to damaging the undercarriages of expensive private vehicles.
Motorists in Blackheath have even produced their own engineering report, which claims that 12 out of a sample of 15 new speed bumps breach Lewisham council’s recommended height limit. The council, however, insists they all meet national guidelines.
An excellent metaphor for how socialism deals with life generally. Socialism clings to ‘equality’, and since it is impossible to make low-quality people high-quality, the only method available is to make high-quality people in effect low-quality.
Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” is even more apropos to modern life than Orwell’s “1984”.