Private emails uncovered by the Telegraph suggest that Sadiq Khan’s office tried to discredit scientists who found that his Ultra Low Emissions Zone policy had a minimal impact on pollution. Here’s an excerpt:
In private emails seen by the Telegraph, Shirley Rodrigues, the London Mayor’s Deputy for Environment and Energy, told Professor Frank Kelly she was “really disappointed” that Imperial College had publicised findings questioning the effectiveness of Ulez.
Prof. Kelly, a director of Imperial’s Environmental Research Group, which has been paid more than £800,000 by Mr. Khan’s office since 2021, agreed to issue a statement – partly written by Ms. Rodrigues – saying Ulez had helped to “dramatically reduce air pollution”.
London Conservatives said the correspondence revealed an “alarmingly cosy relationship” between the Mayor’s office and the scientists it was funding, as well as a desire to “silence scientists who question the effectiveness of Khan’s policies”.
Prof. Kelly’s colleagues said they stood by their research “100%”, but the Telegraph understands that the fallout has had a chilling effect, leaving them unwilling to publish further work on the subject.
The study from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, published in the journal ‘Environmental Research Letters’ in 2021, found that the introduction of Ulez in 2019 cut nitrogen dioxide by less than three per cent and had insignificant effects on ozone and particulate matter.
Peter Fortune, the Conservative London Assembly Member for Bexley and Bromley, two of the boroughs challenging the Ulez expansion, said: “It is unacceptable that Sadiq Khan and his deputy conspired to silence legitimate research because it would damage the Mayor’s reputation and credibility.
“Sadiq Khan has claimed he is just following the science, yet he has been using scientific advisors to protect his own interests. Science relies on open, transparent debate.”
Imperial’s Environmental Research Group has been paid at least £802,958 by Mr. Khan’s office since 2021, including a payment of £45,958 for a report on the “future health benefits of mayoral air quality policies” which has been widely cited by the Mayor despite not being peer reviewed.
Councillor Colin Smith, the leader of Bromley Council said: “When academics are paid for their research, it quite reasonably leads to questions being asked about the outcomes sought by those commissioning the work.
“Indeed, as long ago as last autumn we directly challenged Imperial as to their methodology and the conclusions of some of their research ourselves, and the revelation of these emails now serves to seriously heighten those concerns.”
Emails released under Freedom of Information requests show that Ms. Rodrigues wrote to Prof. Kelly on Nov 16th 2021, complaining that Sky News, the Times and the Mail were running a “misleading” Ulez study that had been press released by Imperial College.
Ms. Rodrigues thanked Prof. Kelly’s team for trying to stop Imperial’s press office from releasing the research and said that she was “deeply concerned” about the damage the study was doing to the credibility of the Mayor’s office and Ulez.
She added: “Is there anything you can do or advise to help us set the record straight? I would really appreciate any support.”
Prof. Kelly replied, saying he was “totally dismayed” and was “pursuing options internally to offset this”. He said he would be “very happy to provide the Greater London Authority with support required as you move to mitigate the damage”.
Prof. Kelly sent a statement to Ms. Rodrigues to check, which initially said actions by the Mayor were “collectively providing a major benefit to the city”. She replied, crossing out the word “collectively” and adding that the Mayor’s schemes “have dramatically reduced air pollution in London”.
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A short one from Dr McCullough but this is his conclusion regarding the measles vaccine, citing a paper from 2016 in JAMA;
“Given the neuropsychiatric concerns over the MMR vaccine and the stochastic risk of allergic/immunologic reactions to any injection including components of (DTaP, Tdap) or MMR, the parental movement for vaccine choice is well justified. For measles and pertussis, the vaccines convey imperfect protection and breakthrough infection (vaccine failure) should receive considerable “blame” by public health researchers.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/vaccine-failure-a-major-determinant
Measles vaccine presumably has the same issue as the COVID shots, in that it’s given as an injection so it won’t generate IgA (mucosal) antibodies, which are what is really needed to prevent infection for a disease that’s spread through the air?
Evidently it’s not a Covid ”pandemic” we have to worry about now but a VAIDS pandemic. These data, when presented in this graph format, are really shocking. I wonder what various other countries’ data look like. The increases in several illnesses in 2021 when compared to previous years is just off the charts!
“The average number of myo/pericarditis cases being reported as adverse reactions to any vaccine between the years 2000 and 2020 equates to 46.
The total number of acquired immune disorders reported as adverse reactions in 2021 was 15,555. This represents a 33,715% increase. Shocking, isn’t it?”
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/vaids-rising-cdc-confirms-usa-suffered
Good info
I don’t know if you saw my response to your post the other day, as it was late, but I was saying you must be chuffed to bits about your son’s success!
Are you still his roadie? 
In support of the above:
https://expose-news.com/2022/12/27/fatal-link-covid-vaccine-aids/
Non-binary. What this does it tell us what someone is NOT.
Who cares what someone is NOT?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/27/anti-car-sadiq-khan-destroying-london/
The Labour mayor of Greater Manchester isn’t far behind Khan with his money-making schemes, penalising vehicle users. His scheme has temporarily been put on hold – only after all the surveillance cameras etc watching our every moves were already installed at great cost.
His scheme has temporarily been put on hold – only after all the surveillance cameras etc watching our every moves were already installed at great cost.
July this year the scheme comes in to force. Bunter Burnham can’t wait. £10 per day to drive a diesel vehicle in his Clean Air Zone. This will wreck Greater Manchester but Attenborough will be pleased.
As I have pointed out many times much of the £37 billion was spent on traffic measures and a surfeit of cameras across the region was part of that.
https://www.dw.com/en/top-german-virologist-says-covid-19-pandemic-is-over/a-64214994
What a grim fairy tale – The pandemic that never was…
Should that not be Grimm? They were from Germany, weren’t they?
And some folk are still saying that none of what is coming down the line is planned….
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-global-agriculture-unsustainable-sustainable-un-agenda-2030/5800922
Thanks BB. I hope everyone on here reads this. The future looks grim. Those not dying from health problems caused by the injections are to die from starvation.
I work with a few farmers. I wish I knew how to talk to them about this. But what would I achieve?
By now I’m sure many of you have seen this infamous video and example of propaganda/misinformation bilge churned out by the WHO and featuring the hugely irrational, science-denying vax zealot Dr Hotez. Well Ivor Cummins focuses on debunking the offending piece of shameful rubbish ( not exactly difficult ) in his latest video using his usual data-centric method.
https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/insane-vaggzine-propaganda-omg-shocking:9
Speaking of vax zealot Hotez, watch him here in March 2020 speaking of his concerns with these jabs. What happened in that interim period that he did such a U-turn? The 2min vid also gives a bonus clip of Fauci demonstrating what a lying, hypocritical git he is and always was.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-worst-possible-thing-you-could
Our politicians just don’t think things through. In Fraser Myers’s article in Spiked, he says that they are pursuing energy policies that rely on the weather – which at times produce insufficient power when it is cloudy and/or there is no wind. If there is insufficient sunshine and wind, why don’t they just burn more fossil fuels which will result in hotter (and sunnier) weather and more chaotic climatic conditions with increased wind speeds? Oh wait….
Hopefully this means that our posting facilities are back to normal.
Many thanks to the team for getting this sorted.
Thanks also to Mogs for alerting the membership. Bloody hell I felt like I had been in solitary for two days.
Thanks very much Mogs
https://expose-news.com/2022/12/28/30by30-is-the-biggest-land-grab-in-history/
Iain Davis at UK Column News has done a lot of work on this. Truly frightening.
https://expose-news.com/2022/12/28/top-secret-covid-vaccination-deadier-than-disease/
The maths people here will enjoy this.
“The findings of AFL ( American First Legal) indicate how centres of power can and do act in unison when they need to. The fact that it involved a worldwide campaign shows something huge was at stake.”
A cracking short essay from Colin Todd unter over at Off-G outlining the nefarious webs of government, pharma and Blackrock, all deeply inter-linked and working flat out to murder and then enslave humanity.
Apologies – Todhunter.
Agreed – well worth a read
Of Economic Crises and Pandemics: Facebook as Fact, Government as Truth, Big Pharma as God – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)
Thanks Michael. Apologies all. Two days away and I have forgotten how to post. Crikey.
From the ” why the news block on Dutch farmers?” above which contains this gem:
“Controlling food production is something that political ruffians always want to achieve.”
Possibly something was lost in translation but I don’t think those planning to murder millions through starvation are worthy of the nomenclature of “ruffians.”
John Campbell calls for a halt to the injections.
https://rumble.com/v22ugd2-time-to-pause-covid-mass-vaccination.html