Hundreds of protesters gathered in London this afternoon to protest against the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) expansion scheme. MailOnline has more.
The protesters gathered at Trafalgar Square, London, in high-visibility jackets with ‘Free our Streets’ placards and mock registration plates reading ‘No to Ulez’.
Demonstrators could also be seen with placards that read “Get Khan Out” and “Take Back Democracy”.
It comes after a High Court judgment permitted four London councils to proceed with a legal challenge against London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plans to expand the Ulez to the whole of Greater London.
But Mr Khan has said he will continue with plans to extend the Ulez, which he has argued is needed to tackle toxic air that is responsible for thousands of premature deaths a year.
The Ulez, which is aimed at reducing air pollution by charging drivers of older vehicles, covers the area inside the North and South Circular roads.
But Mr Khan intends to expand it across all of Greater London on August 29th of this year.
Drivers of older, polluting cars will have to pay £12.50 a day to use their vehicle across Greater London.
A £110 million scrappage scheme will also be introduced, intended to help eligible Londoners scrap their highest-polluting vehicles to prepare for the Ulez expansion.
Mr Khan announced the plans last summer when it was welcomed by green groups, clean air campaigners and some businesses but opposed by Conservatives and some of the public who claim outer boroughs don’t want it.
Four Conservative London borough councils – Hillingdon, Bexley, Bromley, Harrow – and Surrey county council have since got permission to challenge the policy in court.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Alan Miller, the co-founder of the Together Association which helped organise today’s protest, has written a good piece in the Telegraph arguing that so-called traffic-calming measures have been imposed on cities and towns across the country without adequate consultation and will restrict our freedom of movement.
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ULEZ is just one small part of the “behaviour change” they want impose upon us. Well done to those protesters.
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidturver/p/net-zero-behaviour-change-mind-games?utm_source=direct&r=nhgn1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
“Behaviour change”
That is a short-handed euphemism. What is really meant is the changes that will necessarily arise once ghettoisation is enforced – unless we stop this.
Everything that is being rolled out has at its heart a place in their reset. Fifteen minute cities will become ghettos and bang – the gates are locked.
I’ve been seeing various heartening pictures online of people conveying their feelings about all the cameras being put up in their neighbourhoods. On a spectrum of vandalism there was black bags taped round them, silly string squirted to cover them, black paint covering them, then at the extreme end I watched a guy cut a pole with a chainsaw and topple it like felling a tree!🤣 Loving the sentiment and the ingenuity of the good people 😎…though I do wonder if Mr Chainsaw ever got apprehended..🤔
Thanks Mogs. A fightback has to start somewhere. Perhaps, hopefully at some point the plebs will realise that we are in a battle for our very survival.
We are at war.
As the wonderful Katie Hopkins is saying on YouTube – cans of expanding foam are only £6.69 at ToolStation.
Was there. The best bit was the crowds lining the road past Trafalgar Square and the hooting in support of the demo.
Good for you sir.
I note that the BBC does not think this protest was worth reporting.
‘Trusted News Initiative’.
The BBC did cover this but included far right references and conspiracy types in the protester descriptions
Interesting. I still can’t find it on the BBC news web site. Was it broadcast only? If I missed it on the site can anyone provide a link? Ta.
‘Trusted News Initiative’ = Pravda
some of the broadcast on Twitter. https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1647347599664398338?s=20
How surprising? Who would have thought that such a “free fair and impartial” broadcaster would stoop so low?
This is just industrial sized tyranny
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If you have any doubt this creature is anything BUT an evil Mendacious, conniving snake, have a look at him (not) answering one or two probing questions, here…
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It’s an islamist it can NEVER be trusted.
This ULEZ is really nothing but a London road usage tax for poorer people (who might own second-hand cars). These are to pay for the privilege to be allowed to drive around in London. That’s certainly not being done because Khan wants the money and doesn’t particularly like poorer people.
Khan doesn’t make these decisions, he merely implements them
The islamist cnut, Khan, is merely carrying out his orders.
More govt control over people.