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Meet the London Mayoral Candidate Pledging to Scrap ULEZ and 20mph Zones

by Will Jones
10 May 2023 9:00 AM

A seasoned anti-fuel tax campaigner has been picked as Reform U.K.’s candidate to be London Mayor and will vow to scrap all of the capital’s Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZ) and other hated anti-car policies. The Telegraph has the story.

Howard Cox’s attempt to enter the political frontline follows years of success as a campaigner when he has repeatedly helped convince the Treasury not to increase fuel duty.

Mr. Cox will promise not just to stop proposals by the current London Mayor, Labour’s Sadiq Khan, to expand the current ULEZ program but get rid of it all together.

Other policies will include ending the so-called Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme and scaling back the number of 20 mile-an-hour limits in London, according to a Reform source. 

Reform faces an uphill struggle in the race. A nationwide poll on the Politico website has the party on 5%, behind the Liberal Democrats on 11%, the Tories on 29% and Labour on 44%.

But by putting helping drivers in London at the heart of its campaign Reform could influence the debate in the contest, including bouncing the Conservatives into a tougher position.

Mr. Khan is running for a third term. The Conservatives are yet to announce a formal candidate, with a decision expected to be made in the summer.

Howard Cox said: “Anyone who lives or travels in and out of London under Mr Khan’s regime can see the vast social and economic damage he has done to our brilliant capital.

“Today, millions struggle to get a doctor’s appointment, have seen their communities infested with rising crime and violence and can’t afford to drive into their city.

“We’ve seen low-income families, workers, sole traders, and businesses fleeced by this Mayor’s anti-growth agenda.

“It’s time someone stood up for millions of ordinary Londoners who are the heartbeat of our capital. They don’t need another elitist politician only interested in self-promotion through baseless virtue signalling.

“Now is the time to tackle the issues that really matter. As mayor I will listen to Londoners and guarantee to act on their behalf. London deserves better.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Green AgendaLondonLondon Mayoral ElectionLTNsReformSadiq KhanULEZ

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AEC
AEC
1 year ago

Good for him. Reform’s problem is Tice. The electorate suspects he’s a globalist in sheep’s clothing, and that manifested in the local elections.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  AEC

Tice’s night time “olympian” partner Isabel Oakshott seriously dented any pretence of Reform’s anti-establishment stance when she wrote Handicock’s diaries.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  AEC

Standing down 317 candidates in 2019 also added deeply to this suspicion.
Tice does indeed to pee or get off the pot.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  AEC

With respect that seems to me like wishful thinking.
People who are naturally on the political right keep voting Tory in huge numbers. They have to stop for another political force to emerge on the right. They have had many chances and if the penny hasn’t dropped by now, I can’t see it happening in my lifetime. We probably need a disastrous societal collapse for people to wake up.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

“We probably need a disastrous societal collapse for people to wake up.”

Oh, I think such a collapse is absolutely inevitable tof.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Looks that way

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

This has been going on for so long that there’s even a German word for it: Politikverdrossenheit (Fed-up-with-politics-ness). People are generally convinced that they keep getting shafted by corrupt/ otherwise non-desirable career politicians and have mentally disengaged themselves from political public life, yet, enough of them keep making the same crosses on the same boxes of ballot papers and then hope that this will somehow magically fix things (which it never does).

This is mirrored on the side of the actual political actors: By the time some group of people with a positive vision regarding what they want society to become and how to achieve that has percolated through the parliamentary system to positions of actual power, it’ll have turned into yet another group of short-termist establishment politicians playing to the tune of the machinery they believe to have conquered while it has really conquered them.

The system is f***ed and making more crosses on pieces of paper so that someone else will hopefully do something about it is not going to help.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Yep the system is indeed f…ed. ————-But as Churchill said “Democracy is the worst form of government…apart from all the rest”. ———We have to somehow operate within that f…ked system or become anarchists instead.

Last edited 1 year ago by varmint
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Jane G
Jane G
1 year ago
Reply to  AEC

I’m not sure the electorate at large know what a globalist is.
Our area didn’t even have a candidate from Reform – I might have held my nose and voted for them, despite revising my opinion of them fundamentally.

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Dr G
Dr G
1 year ago

I was born in London.
At age 1 I moved to Australia with my parents as a “10 pound Pom”.
I had a holiday there when I was 8, and another when I was 52, 9 years ago.
How times change!
As with San Francisco, Melbourne, New York and Seattle, Lefties certainly know how to destroy a decent city.
The fact that Khan looks set for another term says it all.
No desire to live there again.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  Dr G

if only those of the small government centre Right had one third of the commitment, energy and activism of those on the Left we may be in a better place.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Smudger

We’re too busy working

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I fully acknowledge that small c conservatives are busy but they are effective, practical hardworking people and that is why I considered that one third of the commitment, time and energy spent by the Left would be enough to turn the ship around.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Smudger

Good point!

We also don’t like telling other people what to do or how to think.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago

Well done Howard Cox!

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago
Reply to  Smudger

Just waiting for the Fake News to call him Hitler, anti-semitic, far right and an anti-vaxx science denier who wants to kill Gaia. They can dust off their 10 year old copies and regurgitate.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

Too many people, too many cars, too many trains, too many planes, too many beggars, too many criminals, too many drugs, too many knives, too many guns, too many of almost everything you can think of…………..How can a total clutter like that be sorted out? Especially when boat loads of more clutter arrive in their thousands each week.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
1 year ago

Time for a change. Sadiq has shown his incompetence and is destroying a once great city. Vote for the new guy or forever be ruled by the WEF.

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