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28 March (Part 2) - Stop electing Idiots

Idiot KhanYouTube is awash with anti-ULEZ comment and former Bexley Councillor Gareth Bacon (M.P. for Orpington) is doing a fantastic job of exposing Sadiq Khan’s dishonesty.

The subject was on Mrs. Bacon’s Places Scrutiny Meeting Agenda last week and Councillor Cameron Smith was asked to update the Committee on his Bexley Impact Assessment. A Task Group consisting of Councillors Brooks, Adams and Ogundayo is looking at the Impact on the borough and the mitigations in place. A survey of businesses schools, care providers and NHS Trusts is underway.

The Council’ְs position on ULEZ is well known but the Task Group is examining whether the exemptions and the scrappage scheme are good enough in the event of tradesmen and the less well off being priced off the roads.

Councillor Ogundayo (Labour, Thamesmead East) said that the Group is working well together despite some differences of opinion.

The subject took up almost 150 seconds of the close to three hour meeting.

Spending rather more time on the issue, @tonyofsidcup has had an FOI response from Bexley Council which reveals that it has so far spent £18,003 on legal fees on their ULEZ legal challenge and they have budgeted a total of £100,000 as a “worst case scenario”.

Four London boroughs, Bexley, Harrow, Bromley and Hillingdon together with Surrey County Council are acting together in an attempt to stop the Mayor’s money grabbing move towards road pricing for everyone at an estimated cost of £400,000.

 

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