Hundreds of millions in Ulez fines are going unpaid as drivers revolt over the controversial charge, casting doubt over its expansion. The Telegraph has the story.
Penalty charge notices relating Sadiq Khan’s Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) worth £255m were outstanding at the end of last year, the Telegraph can reveal.
The Mayor of London’s flagship Net Zero scheme was owed more money from drivers in unpaid fines than it made during the financial year from 2022 to 2023, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showed.
It comes as the Mayor is accused of using an “unintelligible” and “contradictory” consultation to expand the Ulez to all London boroughs next month by lawyers representing a coalition of five Conservative-run councils that is seeking to block the move at the High Court.
Motorists did not pay PCNs worth £255,545,388 in the last financial year and £120,123,660 between 2021 and 2022, in what has been described as a “revolt” against the controversial scheme.
The figures show the total value of outstanding PCNs last year surpassed the scheme’s 2022 revenues worth £224,633,003, of which £73.3m was paid through penalties, according to figures from Transport for London (TfL). …
The planned Ulez extension, which is set to cover all London boroughs from August 29th, will impact neighbouring areas and could see traffic in commuter towns increase as drivers park outside London and catch the train to avoid charges.
Last week, Mr. Khan received a public dressing down from Office for Statistics Regulation chairman Robert Chote after he failed to provide data to support a claim that nine out of 10 cars driving in outer London met Ulez standards.
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Oh dear, what a shame, never mind…..
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/ulez-cameras-being-destroyed-london-124709942.html
I think we should be pleased at just how quickly people are kenning this agenda. A few years ago barely anyone would mention it. It is so obviously pernicious and self-contradictory that the simplest of minds can see it. They will continue to push but do not be disheartened because the only power they have is tacit support or acquiescence. Once that falls below a certain level they will be unveiled. If you look at deposed dictators on the way to execution you will see just how hollow and sunken they appear once stripped of office.
This is the way to start a fightback. As the old adage had it:
“Just say no.”
If enough people continue to ignore the fines and let them rack up what is Khant going to do?
Courts will clog up in no time. Add some Screwfix £6.25 a can vandalism and Khan khant.
The fines are issued by a corporation with which one has no contract until one engages with that corporation. They know this, which is why the unpaid fines cannot be chased. More & more folk are learning about the unlawful situation & refusing to engage.
I doubt that is true. The political class don’t let their prey go free that easily.
It’s a mixed bag. People love convenience and one of their tricks is to sell everything as a convenience up to the point where it becomes a necessity and then mandatory. I think that there is a growing awareness of the hollowness of a life of convenience, which is essentially painlessness. I think that peak tech was reached in 2016 and I sense a deep lassitude in regard to it. As to where things will go that should never be the question. If you long for a return to normal or even a life governed by the pleasure principle then you will be ill-equipped for the next few decades. Our time is the anvil of the heart. The next movement in human consciousness necessitates this passage through the crucible.
Similarly, there are plans afoot to “disable” speed cameras here in Wales after the 30mph -> 20mph transition that Drakeford wants to implement. A stepping stone, no doubt…
Yep!, and with major roads being limited to 50 mph, double and treble council tax on second homes, the promised tourist taxes, and house council tax band re evaluations, there won’t be a lot to attract people to Wales or encourage them to stay. With the intended increase in Senedd members to 96, and the 22 regional and county councils, 1250, local councils and the rest of the public sector, and national parks; I am sure to some, life will be perfect.
I suspect the increasing imposition of 20mph is because they know that far heavier EVs which are involved in a personal injury accident are far more likely to kill at 30mph or above, than ICE vehicles.
The first motorway pile up involving dozens of cars which includes a high percentage of EVs is going to be “interesting.” Unless you’re involved in it ….. or clearing it up. Then it will be terrifying.
I phone video from a friend in the USA of two EVs in an accident, resulting in a fire and multiple explosions, I would have liked to copy it here but I cannot seem to be able to do so, which is a shame. Needless to say, but such an accident in a built up area would be quite devastating for any buildings but also for the environment in CO2 emissions.
It is a jump in consciousness or behaviour. Once you accept that the experts aren’t really the experts then you are faced with a predicament. It doesn’t matter honestly. This isn’t 915 in the morning it is more like 2325. That whole establishment which claimed to rule us is itself utterly bankrupt and moribund. We do have to start again from scratch. We do have enough left in this country to start from scratch. Look at how these islands kept alive the Christ impulse during periods of crisis. It is here and it infuses everything if only you will look at it.
Just don’t become a passive spectator hoping for the best. This is the worst state and what they want. The only way to a future is the abandonment of risk assessment. Meet me down the pub those who are prepared to die. There will be plenty of younguns because they keep alive what it is to be human.
Well it’s the first time I’ve heard of this, not living anywhere near Rotterdam, thankfully. Due to the ongoing housing crisis, as well as the relentless influx of immigrants, you can see why the government are so keen to grab the farmers’ land.
”The Dutch government has chartered another cruise ship to accommodate up to 1,500 refugees in the port of Rotterdam as the country struggles to cope with the housing demand following a high number of new arrivals.
The MS Silja Europa, a German-built vessel that is the tenth-largest cruise liner in the world, will dock in the Dutch city and house refugees while the local government constructs 1,125 flexible homes and converts office buildings into another 375 homes for the migrants, paid for by the Dutch taxpayer.
The accommodation is reserved for status holders. These are refugees with a temporary asylum residence permit who are entitled to housing in the country. They are allocated a municipality that is obligated to provide adequate housing, and the offer of accommodation must be accepted by the status holder as per the conditions of their residence permit.
Last year, when the Dutch government resorted to using temporary accommodation including hotels and cruise ships to house migrants, officials pledged to resolve the matter expediently and keep the costs to the Dutch taxpayer to a minimum.
Eighteen months later, however, it appears to be pursuing the same policy as it struggles with a record backlog of asylum applications and an influx of new arrivals all expecting housing.
“About 60,000 permanent places for asylum seekers are needed in the Netherlands, but structural shelter has not yet been arranged. It is, therefore, clear that emergency shelter is still unavoidable,” Dutch Security Council Chairman Hubert Bruls warned back in March.”
https://rmx.news/migrant-crisis/dutch-taxpayers-charged-for-another-chartered-cruise-ship-to-house-1500-migrants-in-rotterdam/
I see that Jayne Donegan has been struck off the medical register (daily mail report), seem like undercover reporters attended some her talks and dobbed her in for spreading “disinformation” about vaccines. She might need the FSU….
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/have-any-scottish-parliamentarians-msps-taken-a-covid-vaccine
Oh look, MSP’s have NOT been taking their “vaccines.” I didn’t see that coming.
So, those of us with settled addresses and legal number plates will be pursued through the courts, ultimately to bankruptcy, whereas those Khan has encouraged to come to London won’t.
their car numbers can’t be traced, they have no fixed a bite or they have no money. Works well for his chosen electorate?
https://youtu.be/bDcjDc288S4
Paul Joseph Watson’s ‘,Anything Goes’ YouTube channel references us ie The Daily Skeptic, particularly Chris Morrisons piece on the Met Office and the 41 degrees at RAF Conningsby (?) and the jet fighters.
With over 300k subscribers this can do us no harm
https://youtu.be/wADMuGoLgjA
Andrew Bridgen’s speech in the EU Parliament 4th July.
It’s terrific.
WHO – under the International Health Regulations (revised) which this government is going to sign up to, the WHO would have the right to declare a fake Health crisis ar any time. That’s:
Public Health Emergency of International Concern
P H E I C…….pronounced Fake. The Davos Deviants love their little puns. Apologies to those who have already spotted this and thanks to Andrew Bridgen.
It’s most kind of Khan to give people a foretaste of what life will be under Starmer and co
Looks like another Poll Tax moment. ————–The people have more power than they realise. I am surprised they don’t kick up the same stink about all the other ideologies being foisted on us like eg putting all our kids in the same toilet.