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News and Comment November 2022

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30 November - Valiantly fighting their corner from a position of weakness

ULEZBexley Labour has put out a Press Release about the Mayor’s unjustifiable (ULEZ) assault on the least well off members of society. They are in a tough place. They know that it is an affront to democracy and has nothing to do with air pollution yet have to be seen to support a Labour Mayor. Being decent people but tribal like all politicians they have trodden a careful path to avoid stamping on too many toes.

If a pollution charge was needed it was needed 20 plus years ago when engines were undoubtedly unnecessarily dirty; not now when 85% of engines are ‘clean’ and that figure is heading towards 100% at a reasonably rapid rate without the threat of Labour fines.

Labour claims to have obtained concessions for disabled drivers but that is not what the TfL website says. It speaks only of an exemption period.

Labour Councillors justify their support for further taxes on motorists by referring to 162 annual deaths in Bexley attributable to “dangerous levels of air pollution”. One wonders why most of us were not dying like flies when engines smoked and buses stank. Were none of the 162 unfortunately born with bodily weaknesses or later took up smoking?

The figure, if it is true at all, relates to people who died of breathing difficulties but attributing them all to old cars is simply desperation on the part of our Labour Councillors who must know in their heart that they are valiantly creating a smoke screen to mask Khan’s true intentions. A London wide road pricing scheme to fund his various vanity projects and grandiose lifestyle.

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