Five Tory-led councils’ High Court challenge against London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion plan has been rejected, giving the green light for the scheme’s extension. The legal setback adds fuel to the already raging civil war within the Labour Party amid a pressing cost of living crisis. Motorists across Greater London can expect to pay a £12.50 daily fee to use their cars if they don’t meet emission standards from August 29th. The Mail has the story:
The ruling by Mr. Justice Swift also follows last week’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip parliamentary by-election, where Labour’s failure to win former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s seat was blamed on concerns from voters around the expansion of Ulez.
Mr. Khan confirmed today that he would now “proceed” with the expansion in 32 days’ time as planned – in defiance of senior Labour figures fearful of the political impact.
The court has not yet said whether there will be grounds to appeal for the councils – with Ulez now set to reach Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, and Surrey.
Giving a summary of his ruling, Mr. Justice Swift said: “I am satisfied that the Mayor’s decision to expand the Ulez area by amendment of the present road charging scheme, rather than by making an entirely new… scheme, was within his powers.”
The judge added that, having “carefully considered” the consultation process, he was satisfied that enough information was given for people who wished to respond to provide “informed responses”.
He also said the consultation on the scrappage scheme was “not in depth”, but was “lawful”.
At a hearing earlier this month, the local authorities’ lawyers argued Mr. Khan lacked the legal power to order the expansion of the zone by varying existing regulations.
Craig Howell Williams KC, for the councils, said there was an “unfair and unlawful” approach to collecting views on the plans and that “key information… was not disclosed” during previous consultations.
The barrister added that plans for a £110 million scheme to provide grants supporting the scrapping of non-Ulez compliant vehicles were also unlawful because a “buffer zone” for “non-Londoners” affected by the extended charging zone was not considered.
But the Mayor’s legal team rejected the bid to quash his November 2022 decision to extend Ulez to all of London’s boroughs, arguing the move was “entirely lawful” and that “ample information” was provided for a “fair consultation”.
Ben Jaffey KC, representing the Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) – an interested party in the case – said the “primary objective” of the Ulez expansion was “to improve London’s air quality, in particular reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulates”.
The barrister said Mr. Khan’s decisions “will help to get London’s air quality closer to legal limits, where they are exceeded, and World Health Organisation guideline levels everywhere”.
Reacting to his victory, Mr. Khan said today: “This landmark decision is good news as it means we can proceed with cleaning up the air in outer London on August 29th.
“The decision to expand the Ulez was very difficult and not something I took lightly, and I continue to do everything possible to address any concerns Londoners may have.
“The Ulez has already reduced toxic nitrogen dioxide air pollution by nearly half in Central London and a fifth in Inner London. The coming expansion will see five million more Londoners being able to breathe cleaner air.
“I’ve been listening to Londoners throughout the Ulez rollout, which is why from next week I am expanding the scrappage scheme to nearly a million families who receive child benefit and all small businesses with up to 50 employees. I will continue to look at new ideas to support Londoners.
“Nine out of 10 cars seen driving in outer London on an average day are already compliant so won’t pay a penny – yet will still see the benefits of cleaner air. Air pollution is an urgent public health crisis – our children are growing up with stunted lungs and it is linked to a host of serious conditions, from heart disease to cancer and dementia.
“This unambiguous decision today in the High Court allows us to press on with the difficult but vital task of cleaning up London’s air and tackling the climate crisis.”
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isn the causality on this reversed. Isn’t calling the Jewish card the final defence of the zionists? Get real Israel int going to be riding in the leftist protected and victim class.
what kind of drivel is this?
it’s now become the rightists who through around labels to distract fro. The damage their constituents cause, just as the left used racism homophobia transphobia and all. the rest to ric cover race riots after George Floyd, while they condone life changing operations and future suicdes
It’s the rightest preferred collective pathology. They are willing to abandon all they supposedly held dear the moment their their anti Islam anti Arab needs mobilisation.
Getting ethnic cleansingey enough for you?
Laurent Guyenoy believes the is a way to understand Zionists are suffering from a collective psychos, a “collective psychopathy.”
This allows the psychopathies urges to be mitigated through the collective actions of their leader. Meanwhile they are cured of their impulses and free
to be loving caring people.
worth reading in full as they say…
https://www.unz.com/article/israels-biblical-psychopathy/Exerpt:
I am tired of reading that Netanyahu is a psychopath. He most certainly is not. I see no reason to consider him, or any other Israeli leader, as psychopaths in the psychiatric sense. They have a collective psychopathy, which is a very different thing.
The difference is the same as between a personal neurosis and a collective neurosis. According to Freud, religion (and he meant christianity) is a collective neurosis. Freud did not mean that religious people are neurotic. On the contrary, he observed that their collective neurosis tends to immunize religious people from personal neurosis.[1]
I do not subscribe to Freud’s theory, I just need his backing to introduce my own theory: Zionists, even the most bloodthirsty of them, are not individual psychopaths; many of them are loving and even self-sacrificing persons within their own community. Rather, they are the vectors of a collective psychopathy, which means a special way (we may call it inhuman) by which they collectively see and interact with other human communities.
This is a crucial point, without which we can never understand Israel. Calling their leaders psychopaths is not helpful. What we need is recognize Israel as a collective psychopath, and study the origin of this unique national character. It is a matter of survival for the world, just as it is a matter of survival for any group to recognize the psychopath among them and understand his patterns of thinking and of behavior.
What Is a Psychopath?
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The most characteristic trait of the psychopath is a complete absence of empathy and, as a result, of moral inhibition in harming others, combined with a thirst for power. Psychopathy also shares some traits with narcissism: psychopaths have a grand vision of their own importance. In their minds, everything is owed to them because they are exceptional. They are never wrong, and failures are always the fault of others.
Truth is of no value to the psychopath; truth is whatever is convenient for him at any given moment. He is a pathological liar, but he is hardly aware of it. Lying is so natural to him that the question of his “sincerity” is almost irrelevant: the psychopath beats the lie detector.
The psychopath feels only very superficial emotions and has no real feelings for anyone; but he has developed a great ability to deceive. He can be charming to the point of charismatic. He is unable to empathize, but learns to simulate it. His power is his extraordinary ability to feign, trick, trap, and capture. Although he himself is immunized against guilt, he becomes a master in making others feel guilty.
Because the psychopath is unable to put himself in the shoes of anyone else, he cannot look at himself critically. Confident in any circumstance of his right, he is genuinely surprised by the grudge of his victims—and will punish them for it. If he steals someone’s property, he will regard the resentment of the despoiled as irrational hatred.
Although the psychopath can be judged raving mad, he is not insane in the medical sense, since he does not suffer—psychopaths don’t visit psychiatrists unless forced to. In a certain sense, the psychopath is over-adjusted to social life, if the purpose of social life is to get by individually. That is why the real mystery, from a Darwinian point of view, is not the existence of psychopaths, but their low proportion in the population.
The most optimistic low-end estimate in the Western population is 1 percent. They should not be confused with the proverbial 1 percent who own half the world’s wealth, although a study among senior executives of large companies has shown that psychopathic traits are widespread among the
You might be interested in “Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel” by Shahak and Mevinsky.
20 years old but possibly more relevant now. By Jews for Jews and non-Jews who don’t speak Hebrew so miss out on the religious extremism that is not reported in the international media.
Thanks DHJ. It’s time to dare to speak about these things as a pathology without fear of the old Jew hater term being thrown at you.
Fraudulent Excess Covid Deaths Of 2020
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Updated
“The fall of Claudine Gay is a blow to the cult of DEI”
Am assuming Eugyppius’ latest will appear on DS at some point – tagged here anyway: pointing out plagiarism is now a tool of white supremacy. Who knew.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/after-claudine-gays-resignation-associated
When I was at uni – decades ago and more recently – plagiarism was an instant dismissal offence. You’d never get away with the levels evidenced by Gay. How times change.
That video clip shows the best, most eloquent, boll*cking I’ve seen a politician give a journalist over their woke-obsessed questioning. Warmed the cockles.
Is Claudine Gay’s motto “Who dares, wins”?
So long as she cites the origin…..
She should just wear a T-shirt which states; ”Everybody else is a racist apart from me.” Because we all know black people cannot be racist. Ain’t that right, Hardlines?
They’re just a massive, fanatical and tiresome pain in the arse aren’t they? They also seem to eclipsed the eco nutters and trans extremist loonies in this department, which is quite a feat. No place for such individuals in civilized society, now f**k off to Palestine if you love them and hate the West and its values so much. Good riddance and adios!
**Trigger warning for the resident Hamas Fanclub. Contains the word ”Israel”!!**
”It’s astounding to think that a war anywhere in the world would become such a public cause by supporters of one side or another that it would dominate and even hijack the public space. That has not happened even with Russia’s attack on Ukraine, even with the wide display of blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag in solidarity with their plight, and a corresponding wide boycott of Russia and Russian products.
Other than the 2014 kidnapping of Nigerian girls by Islamist Boko Haram terrorists which generated its own hashtag, no recent wars in Africa or Asia came close to the visibility of that in Ukraine.
As much as solidarity with Ukraine was widespread, in no case was there widespread public disruption in protest of Russia’s aggression, or in support of Ukraine, or of any other war. Until this October.
Israel’s war against Hamas has triggered widespread public disruptions by terrorist supporters around the world. Calling them terrorist supporters is not rhetoric but fact. Even before the bodies of the 1200 people massacred by Hamas terrorists on October 7 had been identified, massive public protests took place. Shockingly, astoundingly, the protests were not against Hamas’ atrocities and war crimes, but against Israel.
All over the world, thousands of cruel heartless people tore down and defaced pictures of the 250 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, as if somehow showing human compassion for civilians held hostage in Gaza was an evil worse than that of the terrorists’ massacre.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/hamas-terrorist-supporters-hijacking-the-public-space/
The real terrorist is the state of Israel. They have trully earned their ss stripes.
Just another duped rightist.
Genocide in front of our eyes:
https://youtu.be/6e_woWJ3q8o?si=iCySZ0mdQ0_LWx15
Blood is on your hands now too “Mogs”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-covid-part-10-did-masks-and-social-distancing-work/
Paul Weston’s brilliant series concludes with this beauty blowing a ruddy great hole in the mask myth.
Love his two concluding paragraphs…
“The last four years have something of a dreamlike quality. It is still hard to accept what has been done to 99.99 per cent of the population by a handful of criminals within the political/medical/media/scientific industrial complex. But there can be no argument about the terrible sins they have committed. Their evil is contained within the facts and figures on their own data-gathering sites.
2020 was a global crime scene. There is no other way of describing it. The greatest crime came later, though, in the coerced vaccination of a brainwashed and bamboozled population with a needless gene-engineering potion as dangerous as it is useless. Everything about Covid-19 vaccines revolves around crime and fraud. And everything on Planet Covid orbits a malignant white dwarf and an ever-expanding black hole sucking all that is good and honest and decent into cosmic oblivion via the Gates of Hell.”
He doesn’t mince words Michael does he?
Indeed, HP – good stuff…
We’ve seen similar recently where people who condemn all violence are expected to make an explicit statement condemning Hamas. Wasn’t that being reported as a bad thing on DS?