Activists in London are using stickers and posters on cameras and vehicles to protest Mayor Sadiq Khan’s expansion of the ultra-low emission zone. The Mail has more.
The black cameras have been covered with stickers bearing the words “FCUK Khan” in protest against the London Mayor’s draconian expansion of the capital’s ultra-low emission zone.
In addition, posters put up on poles point up at the technology with the words ‘Spy camera’.
Other posters have been left on cars warning drivers of the charges being imposed on non-compliant vehicles.
It comes as plans to potentially block the ultra-low emission zone expansion coming into force across the whole of London next week have been shelved.
The expansion is due to come into place next week, with drivers of the most polluting vehicles billed £12.50 a day for coming within a new Ulez boundary around London.
Cabinet ministers are said to have been exploring using a little-known legal power allowing them to overrule Mr. Khan’s plans where they are inconsistent with national policies.
But Government lawyers have apparently said the challenge would fail in the courts, the Telegraph reported.
It means the controversial rollout of the Ulez expansion across the whole of London will go ahead as planned next Tuesday.
The little-known legal clause in the 1999 Greater London Authority Act states that a transport secretary can effectively block a decision by the London Mayor if it is “inconsistent with national properties relating to transport” and if this would be “detrimental” to anywhere outside Greater London.
But given the U.K.’s own policies on improving air pollution and cutting carbon emissions, lawyers have warned the Government that the move would most likely be quashed in court if challenged.
A Downing Street source said: “We have and continue to look at options, but they are limited. The people who could stop this tomorrow are the Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and Sir Keir Starmer.” …
Meanwhile, a YouGov poll of 1,000 Londoners shows Mr. Khan has a popularity rating of minus 12 across the city, with 52% of respondents viewing him unfavourably, compared with 40% favourably.
Yet in outer boroughs, his net rating plunged to minus 24.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The expansion of London’s ultra-low emission zone cannot be overruled by No10, the Telegraph has learned, as Government lawyers have warned that any attempt to block it would likely be rejected by the courts.
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People who come up with schemes like that should be swabbed until death by nose-bleeding. This is nothing but wanton cruelty inflicted on a vulnerable group of people whose crime is that they have no means of escaping it.
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Didn’t they have hospitals that practiced this kind of treatment? They were abandoned in the 1970s because they realised it didn’t work, sanatoriums I believe they were called!
Mixed news from the England branch of world folly and evil – Mrs ToF went for a blood test today, no masks in sight. On the other hand an acquaintance has a daughter with a bad cough that has lasted weeks, antibiotics no good, amid the otherwise pretty good service she was getting from the GP it was suggested she should make her take a “covid test” – likely result that she will then dutifully “isolate” if she tests positive, instead of getting on with life. At least the mum hasn’t bothered testing her up to now.
Well what I find hilarious is that for a site that’s all about ‘free speech’, there’s a hell of a lot of censorship. Not only has resident Gestapo agent, ‘Hardliner’, locked me out of the site so I can’t log in on my phone, but he’s removed part of my post in the Round-up section. Ever feel like you’re being surveilled? You probably are…Actually it’s obviously just me that’s on a special ‘list’.
”Profanity and abuse will be removed…” except anything Hardliner doesn’t like is removed. Profanity and abuse do not factor in to it. Repeatedly, and without explanation, evidently. Care to comment, Hardliner? No, course not. I’m calling you out on your behaviour so you could at least do the decent thing, but I shan’t be holding my breath….But this post will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2….
I’ve been annoyed by this as well. OTOH, this is the website of the people who run it and they decide what gets published there. That’s just the way it works.
It’s Hardlines on a power trip, that’s what it is. Being deliberately antagonising. Either that or they’re Muslim and I’m pissing them off with my anti-Islam posts, channeling my inner Geert Wilders!
But it’s the double standards with the whole “free speech” gig. What is the criteria used by which some mod deems a post *inappropriate* and worth fiddling with? Especially as none of the posts he/she’s removing of mine breach the above warning.
So given that the “profanity and abuse will be removed…” warning is just mere window dressing, and posts are getting edited/removed anyway, with not even a courteous explanation provided, then from this day forth I’m identifying as a Tourettes sufferer, because fuck it. It makes no difference.
Now bring on the swear jar!
Some years ago, Karl Lauterbach (German Mr COVID and health minister) did a photo-op with some pre-teen girls about to go to a Dangerous climate change! march he was also planning to attend and he referred to them in a very weird (according to my personal judgement) way, something like “These young girls just told me why they’re worried about climate change and now, we’ll go to a climate march together!” I mentionend that once in a comment and the sentence got deleted. No idea why.
All my relatives keep doing that, too, and they all dutifully isolate when positive. But at least, they’ve discarded the masks (I personally threw one my mother was still carrying “just in case” into the bin). I keep telling them that COVID is essentially a cold and that it will usually pass on its own quickly enough that people will rarely even consciously notice this and hope that it’ll eventually sink in.
Japan has really lost its mojo.
I know someone who nearly died of pneumonia because our great NHS ambulance service did exactly the same thing to him.