News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Adverts for the expansion of London's Ulez scheme were misleading because they relied on modelling estimates and not actual data, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
Security guards protecting London's low emission zone cameras are accused of thuggish behaviour, including assault, intimidation and a refusal to display licenses.
Tory MP Gareth Johnson is opposing London Mayor Sadiq Khan's Ulez expansion, slamming it as an "unfair stealth tax", as the scheme raised £5.3 million in its first week.
Sadiq Khan misled the public about the “benefits” of Ulez in radio and newspaper advertisements, a draft report from the advertising watchdog leaked to the Telegraph reveals.
Laurence Fox has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras after uploading a video online of police appearing to search his home.
Vandals were out in force once again yesterday, with one camera being covered in expanding foam while elsewhere a man held an anti-Ulez sign on top of ladder trying to block a camera's view.
Sadiq Khan's Ulez scheme could be 'all for nothing', according to experts who point to research showing that the environmental benefit of the initiative "would take more than a century to get to Net Zero this way".
Conservative MP and former party leader and Government minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said he backs the 'blade runners' who are disabling Ulez cameras because they have been "lied to".
London Mayor Sadiq Khan's Ultra Low Emission Zone is in chaos after scaffolder Noel Willcox, who incurred £11,500 in fines, won a legal ruling stating that signs for the scheme are unlawful.
The surprise Uxbridge by-election result catalysed resistance to Ulez and Net Zero. The Sunday Times's Clive Martin has written a surprisingly sympathetic piece about the people at the forefront of the revolt.
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