So here we are after a long and entertaining campaign of protests, stunts, bladerunners, court cases, wrongful arrests, camera blocks, van blockers, install blockers, security stand offs, paint, torches, reciprocal saws, a Khanavan, a Khanaloo and bat boxes – we finally reach the ballot box stage. The last couple of weeks leading up to this…
As someone who cares about the environment, I have done everything right so far, but that’s just not enough for Sadiq Khan and the clean air obsessed eco zealots. I was recycling cans long before kerbside collections, back when you had to soak the label off and take them to the dump. The dump, where…
The last two weeks have been quite eventful and have pushed ULEZ up the news agenda. On 19th July the Conservative Party announced that Susan Hall would be their candidate for London Mayor in next May’s election. She has promised to stop ULEZ on day one, we remain to see what other policies she has,…
In the lull before the results of the Judicial Review we suddenly find ourselves in the middle of an important and rather exciting by-election. The resignation of Boris Johnson left a gap in London’s political landscape and the anti-ULEZ campaigners spotted a gap in the candidacy and put themselves forward for election. The timing means…
Things are hotting up in ULEZ world as we enter the penultimate month. June ended with a successful ULEZ Convoy around the South and North circular road with around 70 vehicles visiting the proposed ULEZ Expansion border. Despite being the same weekend as Pride and all the Just Stop Oil nonsense, the Stop-ULEZ Con-voy did…
So as we find ourselves moving towards the madness of mid summer, we are having to put the pressure on. The Anti ULEZ campaign is still going strong and there are many events and demos lined up. We kicked off June with a Barking ULEZ Awareness Day on the 1st followed by a successful, well…
Four London Councils and Surrey have applied to the high court for a Judicial Review into the proposed expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) London-wide from August 2023. The coalition of Bexley, Bromley, Hillingdon and Harrow, along with Surrey County Council wanted five grounds to be considered: On 12th April the Court allowed two…
We had another busy week of exciting events leading up to London Bridge Protest on 27th May. On 24th May a group of our regulars risked the early evening throngs at the Southbank Centre to make our feelings know to Sadiq Khan outside his book launch, whilst few hardy individuals braved the the boredom to…
Update 19th July – the Tory membership have voted Susan Hall to be their Mayoral Candidate. She has plenty of experience in standing up to Sadiq Khan so the fight is on. So the competition to be the next London Mayor is hotting up now that the Conservatives have 8 candidates to choose from. They…
What a fantastic weekend of events with protests and awareness days North and South of the ULEZ expansion area. Enfield hosted their first event with a great turnout and thanks to the organiser for gathering and encouraging support. On Saturday we also had events in Havering in the North East and another first in Croydon…
The more complaints submitted against misleading ULEZ reporting, the more notice will be taken If you hear or see an advert or media report that you feel is misleading or biased, there are several ways to complain. Adverts on TV or radio can be reported to the ASA via a simple website form with the…
Despite the Mayor’s claims a mere 100,000 vehicles will need to pay the ULEZ charge, the RAC has found that 700,000 will be affected, and this is only the ones that are inside the proposed extended zone. There are many more just outside Greater London who will also have to pay £12.50 to drive a…
There has been a lot said about how the ULEZ extension will improve the air quality in Greater London, however these claims are not as clear as the Mayor would have you believe. Wild figures like 4,000 deaths a year have been brandished around and it just isn’t true, this link opens in YouTube and…
On Friday 25 November 2022, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan announced that he would be going ahead with his expansion of his Ultra Low Emission Zone to the whole of Greater London. This means that from August this year, any vehicle driven into Outer London that doesn’t meet the so called ULEZ compliance will…
No one denies that clean air is important but this will make negligible difference in the outer boroughs. This was the result of Sadiq Khan’s own report. The ULEZ clean air claims are just not substantiated. Many of the figures are debateable and massaged to fit the narrative. Outer London boroughs generally have good air…
Being charged £12.50 to leave your house may put people off travelling for leisure and visiting friends and relatives. This could leave people isolated and depressed. This will affect the poorest people the most as they can’t afford to buy new vehicles and scrapping perfectly good cars makes no economic or environmental sense. You are…
The expansion of ULEZ to cover the whole of Greater London is the wrong scheme at the wrong time. It’s being implemented to fill the financial hole in TFLs finances and as a vanity project for Sadiq Khan’s C40 profile. It is going to cause a lot of people a lot of misery and hardship….
