I am truly astounded by what has happened to me. Approximately two years ago, myself and other like-minded individuals decided to resurrect an existing Facebook Page, Action Against Ulez, as we were horrified at the prospect of the expansion of the Lez scheme to Outer London boroughs. The daily cost to drive ‘non compliant’ cars was obviously the main issue, but we were also stunned by the questionable communications between Deputy Mayor Shirley Rodriguez and Imperial College over Sadiq Khan’s claim that without the expansion of the Ulez scheme 4,000 premature deaths would occur every year. In fact, as the Jacobs Report made clear, the Ulez expansion would have a negligible impact on air quality and would have a disproportionate effect on the less well-off. We were not only deeply concerned about the financial cost but also the emotional and mental wellbeing of those whose lives would undoubtedly be changed by the scheme. To top it all, the ‘consultation’ process was deeply flawed and the results ignored.
In the early days, along with others, I attended various meetings, including those at City Hall, to express our unhappiness at the looming expansion. Sadiq Khan chose to use insulting language about our group, particularly after a meeting in Ealing, labelling us “far Right” tory voters and accusing us of being “Covid deniers” and “Nazis”.
We decided to arrange a variety of demonstrations aimed at raising awareness of these issues. Our group membership had grown in size and the Facebook page now had around 46,000 followers. The demographics of our membership was predominantly people aged 50 plus, many of whom had never demonstrated about anyting before in their lives. I organised a GoFundMe to fund placards, leaflets, banners and other materials we would use.
We decided to organise what we dubbed “Awareness Days” as we discovered that many people were completely unaware of the looming expansion and how it would effect their lives. Upcoming events would be advertised on the Facebook page and at every event local police were there to meet with myself and others to discuss what our plans were, what time our group would turn up and how many were expected. Our Awareness Days were always a family affair. Some of us would dress up as dinosaurs, dancing in the streets, and a group of women created a vocal unit called ‘The Ulezettes’ and regularly performed at these events. Awareness Days were often attended by local politicians who seemed to enjoy the very good natured atmosphere. Local police would occasionally assist us with setting up and we made a point of leaving every venue clean and free of any litter. The locations were chosen by us, also taking suggestions from the Facebook members. We held events at Trafalgar Square, London Bridge, Marble Arch and outside the BBC with others being more local. Over the last two years we have probably held about 75 of these events, none of which caused any problems, We supported Howard Cox, Khan’s anti-Ulez opponent in the Mayoral election, and would use our events to promote his campaign.
It is common knowledge that Sadiq Khan lives in Tooting, and while we know the name of the street he lives on, we don’t know his house number. In the summer of 2023, we decided to hold an ‘Awareness Event’ on Tooting Common, which is opposite his street. This event involved a barbecue, family fun and entertainment. It was a weekend event, and as usual, local police officers spent time with our group and raised no issues at all. We also held an event outside Tooting Broadway tube station.
We decided to have one of our last events before the Mayoral election at the junction of two streets, one of which was Khan’s. We expected this event to be no different to any of our previous ones, either in Tooting or elsewhere. This was likely to be one of the final opportunities to voice our opposition to the Ulez expansion scheme and campaign for Howard Cox. We were not at all concerned about the location and fully expected the event to go as well as it had done before.
On the day itself several members of the group arrived before 12pm, the advertised start time, and began setting up. We were soon joined by the local police who, as normal, were friendly and chatty, walking around engaging in conversations with various people. The event continued as normal, although several latecomers told us they were concerned at the high numbers of police vehicles assembled in side roads. As these vehicles disgorged their occupants, some of them appeared in our midst and it became chaotic and confusing. While there appeared to be suggestions that we should disperse and relocate to City Hall, no formal announcement was made to the crowd and no specific time for leaving the location was indicated. However, it was clear that the police wanted us to leave and we began the process of packing up.
Then, without any warning, five people were arrested in quick succession – including me!
I was walking on the pavement near where I’d parked my car. One of my jobs as to collect up the banners and placards and take them home with me in my car, ready to be produced again at the next demo. I was beckoned by an officer to follow him into the road where I was arrested using a level of force that was quite unnecessary.
Another man, Lloyd Dunsfored, was arrested just for filming my arrest
Alison Young was arrested as she sat on the floor removing her dinosaur suit.
Martin Whitehead was arrested as he was taking his own placards to his vehicle.
The fifth person to be arrested eventually had the charges against him dropped.
Later, we were charged with causing harassment, alarm and distress to Sadiq Khan.
When we received our charge sheets, we were astonished to discover that the police claimed to have interviewed all of us, shown us all the bodycam and CCTV ‘evidence’ they’d gathered, and claimed we had all given “no comment” interviews. In fact, none of the Tooting Four had been interviewed before being charged. This had all been invented by the police and it took several requests from the magistrates for this finally to be admitted. In our naivety, we felt that the case would be thrown out at this point, but it wasn’t.
We were released that evening, with bail conditions to keep away from Tooting and the surrounding area. We were called to Charing Cross police station weeks later where we were charged – again without being interviewed. The plea hearing was held in early August before Justice/Judge Turner. We all pleaded “not guilty” and Turner discussed the prospective length of the hearing and then checked his diary and suggested he would be available for a trial date of November 27th.
To our surprise, we learned that in fact we were not going before Judge Turner at Westminster Magistrates Court but someone else, District Judge Sternberg. As this had been dragging on for months we were keen to progress – two of us said we would be happy to continue with Sternberg, one was not happy to proceed and one wanted Sternberg to be asked about whether he was able to be impartial in his approach, given that there was some evidence he was friendly with the Mayor. Naturally, he confirmed that he wouldn’t allow this to sway his judgment and the trial went ahead.
Nine police officers were called to give evidence for the prosecution and provided bodycam footage. In the case of seven of these witnesses, the claims they made of road blockages and protestors supposedly preventing an emergency vehicle accessing the road were not supported by their own footage.
Once the prosecution had presented its case, our representative asked the Judge to dismiss the case as the evidence of the senior officers had not been supported by their bodycam footage and had been contradicted by the two local police officers who had been at the scene from the outset.
But to our total astonishment, Sternberg said he felt there was a case to answer and the trial would continue.
While I am no legal expert, it seems that the case relied heavily on the content of the placards and banners we carried. One officer swore on oath that he had seen a placard saying “FUCK KHAN”, even though there was no such placard. When one of the defendants was questioned he confirmed he had a “FCUK KHAN” sticker on his hat – clearly a play on the advertising campaign of French Connection many years ago. The police officers said there were placards with blood on them, the event was advertised as “Khanage at Khan’s” and I had a high-viz jacket with the words “STOP THE KHANAGE” on it. It was implied that all of these could cause alarm and distress to Khan.
In my own cross examination, I explained that the placard with blood mentioned said “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS” – clearly not a threat to Khan.
In his summing up, Sternberg referenced my high-viz jacked and the name of the event, stating that “KHANAGE” refers to the killing of many people. While it isn’t my intention to go into the summing up any further, I hope this gives an indication of Sternberg’s mindset and how the case really rested heavily on the signage.
We were found guilty and I was found to have a higher level of “culpability” than the others and ordered to pay a total of £1,310, comprising a £750 fine, a £300 victim surcharge and £260 of legal costs. Outside the Court, we pointed out that a group of Just Stop Oil protestors, who staged a demo outside then-PM Rishi Sunak’s Kensington home last year, were charged with harassment, but were all acquitted by a judge at Stratford Magistrates’ Court, following a successful submission that there was no case to answer.
We intend to appeal.
Stop Press: You can watch a YouTube video of the press conference held outside the court here.
Stop Press 2: Anti Ulez is organising a fundraising appeal on behalf of the Tooting Four. You can donate here.
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Spot on. Rona Fascism was long in planning. Just more proof that the US Fed Gov’t is simply a criminal agency (as are most Gov’ts including the UK’s). In 2012 their military funded mRNA gene therapy development against a supposed bio-weapons attack. The same country that has 30-40 bio labs in the Uketopia and 300 world wide, that no one talks about. Patents for Rona stretch back a decade or even more. The diapers-forced Jags and Stabs were implemented in 2009 (and failed). They spent 10 years in deep planning post 2009 and when Drumpf took office, they, the deep state and all the Rockefellers-Trilaterals et al got busy. Rona was always a planned Great Reset event and a proof of concept for more to come.
Kill Gates and friends are already planning Rona #2 – Catastrophic Contagion they call it…oooh that sounds sciency and scary….targeting kids of course. As all fascists do.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bill-gates-involved-in-new-pandemic-planning-exercise-with-health-political-financial-leaders/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=canada
They made a plan for an anthrax or smallpox release, seems reasonable to me if you are dealing with a bioweapon of that nature. It’s that they used it for the batflu that is the shocker.
Before you get too overexcited about this it seems reasonable to me that they made a plan for a bioweapon based on anthrax, smallpox or ebola in which case these restrictions make sense.
What we actually got was the misuse of that plan for a virus with an overall IFR similar to flu. It’s the misuse of the plan that is the crime not the existence of one in the first place.
What is enlightening is that it indicates where many other governments copied the script from. Some of the terms used are almost identical to what the usual UK suspects said in March 2020 in their public broadcasts.
World leaders with one voice were telling us about ‘Build Back Better’, surely a giant red flag for anyone who was taking notice.
I think Will acknowledges that when he talks about mission creep. I disagree that there should be a plan at all actually, and the last few years has cemented those thoughts. The vast majority of people will choose not to put themselves at risk, they don’t need to be told by overreaching authoritarians. It is human instinct to want to survive. This idea that we must be lorded over in order to be safe is massively counterproductive; people stop thinking for themselves, they stop asking questions, they aggressively reject dissenting voices, they unwaveringly do what they are told. They become a brainwashed cult. We’ve just seen this happen and the time before was Nazi Germany. Unquestioning respect for authority is the real danger.
Totally agree with all of this for the reasons you state. Governments simply cannot be trusted and their powers should be absolutely the bare minimum necessary to carry out basic functions that it makes sense for them to carry out on a business as usual basis, and every one of us needs to adopt a default position of suspecting ulterior motives, mission creep and overreaction from them whenever they do anything, until proven otherwise. Pretty much any government initiative should be resisted or at least strongly suspected and we should be ready to resist, object and reject as soon as it becomes clear that the initiative is unhelpful.
I agree..while we all might listen to ‘experts in their field’ for advice…that is not what is happening….….this falls I to my category of ‘who the f**k do they think they are? Which is what is prevalent now….unelected know it all’s, rich and powerful, expecting their ‘vision’ to be enacted because apparently they know best and are now the boss of me….
I don’t think so…..
👏👏👏 Absolutely right.
“This idea that we must be lorded over in order to be safe is massively counterproductive.”
Missing the point FL. The safety of the population was and is irrelevant. Well actually TPTB couldn’t give a F. about our safety. The purpose of Lockdowns was to enforce submission and control and to test the population’s adherence to their edicts no matter how ridiculous.
The last three years have been governed by pure evil and nothing else and sadly that evil has far from gone away.
‘Catastrophic Contagion’ coming next.
I think it’s unfair to say he’s missing the point. The key word is “idea”. The way that governments got away with the covid stuff is by presenting it as a safety thing, and people believed them. It doesn’t mean that FL thinks the government was sincere, just that it was the way they sold it.
Said it for me. Thanks. The words grandmother, suck and eggs sprang to mind. Anyway…
We can only read what is written tof, not what people think they have written.
Seems like a rather strange exchange this. Curious – how have you leapt from a statement of “This idea that we must be lorded over in order to be safe is massively counterproductive.” to that meaning “I believe that the government are really trying to do what’s best for us all, and there’s nothing malevolent going on?” I mean nobody on this site believes that do they? I certainly don’t, which you must know from my previous posts. Just seems like a really odd, unnecessarily contrary, reply. For clarity, “This idea” referred not to my idea, but to the idea of many in the masses; that they feel they need parental guidance on how to remain safe. I’ve no intention of falling out with you – things are often misinterpreted via the written word – just trying to understand how you managed to make 2+2=5.
No, I don’t swallow that. That is almost a default to cock-up theory and this gig has been years in the planning.
Lockdowns were always going to happen because the evil plan running behind all this is about depopulation and control.
Their massive and entirely unjustified over-reaction to a Low Consequence Infectious Disease means that the next time they try to impose lockdowns and coerce acceptance of a swiftly marketed “vaccine,” they will already face a very large minority who refuse to go along with their plan.
Did these morons never read the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
“Their massive and entirely unjustified over-reaction to a Low Consequence Infectious Disease means that the …”
Wrong. That is cock-up theory.
Thing is, next time they’ll know in advance which scientists will ask awkward questions and which members of the public won’t co-operate, because they’ll know who hasn’t had the mRNA jab. Undoubtedly there will be a neutralisation strategy in place to get all of us in the ‘awkward squad’ out of the way first.
Obviously not, nor ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.
As I thought ! It wasn’t “Chyna” who laid the groundwork ! It was the Good Ol US of A, what a surprise ! “NOT” !…
Two years and still waiting for a vaccine.
The question I have is, if this sort of plan was cooked up in the US, how did it end up getting adopted first and most enthusiastically by China and then Italy?
I’m not saying American security agencies didn’t dream all this up but it would be interesting to establish the link from there to China and from there to Italy and beyond.
It’s a good question. Absent more information we can only speculate. Arguably China doesn’t need much encouragement to enact this kind of fake technocratic stuff, and I think the Italian minister for health at the time, Speranza, was a declared raving lefty itching to implement more measures to control people (he said something along those lines quite openly). Perhaps it’s not sensible to look for one root cause and narrative thread running through the whole thing – it might be quite complex, with multiple bad actors with different motives, some in cahoots with each other and some not, some initiating, some just reacting.
The WEF is the root of all evil. They are like the fibrous clot discovered in the covid quackine their tendrils growing and spreading and infiltrating important organs of government.
Good analogy.👍
I dunno what “pandemic” they’ll unleash on us next, but I’m fairly definitely sure this show has predicted it;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrh-1Tu-gE&ab_channel=ScreenRant
Brilliant. Thanks Mogs.
They’re cooking up threats of Camel virus from returning football fans….
Oh goodness me, what a load of rubbish. Laughable. Predictable. Ludicrous. At this stage we can safely say they are showing desperation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11462083/World-Cup-camel-flu-warning.html
And Caribbean flu….
Experts warn of ‘Caribbean flu’ which strikes people travelling to Jamaica and other Tropical Islands
“People returning from Jamaica are being advised to watch out for the signs of reggaemylitis – a potentially lethal contagious illness – symptoms of which include felling it ‘inna de bones’, and ‘inna de blood.’
The UK Health Security Agency has warned UK clinicians to ‘be alert’ to the prospect of returning holiday goers showing signs of illness ‘from the toes, up to the brain’, The Times reports.”
The disease pathogen was first isolated by the late Dr Peter Tosh in 1981:
https://youtu.be/jRW1Jds6aQo
Haha, it seems me and you both visit the same Telegram channels. 🙂 It just shows it doesn’t have to be April 1st in order to pull a fast one on the masses and see who still has 2 functioning neurons to rub together.
Love it.
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The sooner the people wake up to the reality that evil people are our government’s puppet masters, we may have a chance of surviving this. One things for sure we must no longer comply!
Don’t understate the terrible effect of the ordinary bureaucrat, the Eichmann type described by Hannah Arendt, who is prepared to commit atrocities without giving them much thought.
Here is a very clear explanation I’ve found of this very insidious type of evil:
I don’t think we fully understand how evil bureaucracy often is.
I said something along the lines to a friend. Don’t comply you will be grateful for the unvaccinated.
For information…from November 2009…including reference to ‘social distancing’…
UW-Madison Receives $9.5 Million From Gates FoundationThe University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced a five-year, $9.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to identify virus mutations that would serve as early warnings of potential pandemic influenza viruses.
The grant will enable an international team of scientists to look for mutations in viral proteins that allow avian influenza viruses to bind to human receptors or facilitate efficient replication in human cells. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, will be the principal investigator on the project.
While avian viruses don’t generally infect human or other mammalian hosts, occasionally a mutation occurs that allows avian viruses to adapt to human cells, provoking an influenza virus outbreak. By identifying mutations early, Kawaoka and his colleagues hope to they can develop an early warning system that makes it easier to predict the pandemic potential of flu viruses.
“The improved ability to predict whether a virus has pandemic potential would be an invaluable asset to the global community,” said Kawaoka. “Millions of lives might be saved if intervention methods — such as social distancing, antiviral compound distribution, and vaccine development/production — could be implemented early.”
A suitable translation of the words of Yoshihiro Kawaoka would be:
We have recently received the sum of $9.5 million from the world’s greatest philanthropist, Lord Bill of the Gates, who has asked us to produce an avian ‘flu virus of such virulence that, almost unknown in nature, is deadly to humans. If we are successful in our endeavours we have been assured of top billing in his next ‘pandemic production.’ Our initial target date as advised by Lord Bill is 2025 although the production is expected to run through to 2030.
Another historical document of interest…
The WHO Global pandemic influenza action plan to increase vaccine supply, published in 2006.
Remember when the threat was all about the flu…?
E.g.
Consider also these statements from the 2006 report…
And think about this…
So this is why we have flu jabs pressed upon us every year, to provide the infrastructure to produce vaccines for the longingly awaited ‘pandemic’…but it ends up creating a massive lucrative flu jab industry…providing rubbish flu jabs we don’t actually need…
“So this is why we have flu jabs pressed upon us every year,”
Further proof that this hideously evil venture has been years in the planning.
America knew they were developing bio-warfare viruses and they expected potential enemies were doing the same, so this set of restrictions was proposed to deal with them. I’m not sure why America decided to sub contract development of these viruses to China, but perhaps because they were afraid of what would happen if they escaped from an American lab. I don’t think they would have expected manufactured viruses would spread as easily as Covid did. Perhaps its time to realise the danger these American nutters like Fauci present to the world. I expect more dangerous bio-warfare developments continue by even nuttier Americans and there appears to be no way of stopping them.
It doesn’t really matter how long the plans had been afoot for. Whatever way you look at the outcome, it’s a fucking disaster,