I am getting tired of both Labour and Tories using the ULEZ as an anti-climate agenda to win votes. ULEZ is not about climate; it is about health issues, especially with regards to kids. This is just one article of many that has emerged over the years.
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Me too. All the polls seem to show that Londoners as a whole are very supportive of this. There’s evidence of an issue and this is a way to fix it that has gone through the Democratic process. It was started by BoJo himself which says a lot about the time it’s taken.
It’s horrible how its been hijacked as some sort of boo to net zero wedge issue when its about improving Londons horrid air quality and improving the health of its inhabitants.
The same fuckers complaining about this would have complained about the installation of toilets in houses instead of shitting in a communal out house.
My personal opinion is that Labour needs to shoulder a lot of the blame for this one. They should have educated the electorate on who introduced the policy, and why Khan was forced to bring it online early because of Grant Shapps and funding. That way they would not now be pandering to the populist vote. Tories will always Tory. We can do without two versions of them in our politics.
Its deffo an issue, they appear to be incredibly poor at dealing with countering wedge issues. However, ulez did poll quite well - given its spread across London too, its easier to see how they took their eye off the ball.
ULEZ is completely unnecessary because pollution has been dropping on its own for decades, due to usage of cleaner energy sources.
The idea that London is still some Victorian, smog-filled city because of transit vans is ludicrous. ULEZ is just a money-making scam.
So what you are saying is that cleaner cars on the roads works. Great I agree with you. My point is that ULEZ is not about climate, it is about health. Fewer cars that pollute can only be a good thing. And if making you buy that cleaner car is going to cost you, then I care as much about that as you do about kids health.
The main source of pollution was the coal industry, and pollution levels were already low without ULEZ: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/06/air-pollution-london-vs-delhi-768x544.png
Comparing to other countries and other industries is not helpful. If children in London are dying from car pollution we should reduce it. We should also reduce coal burning but that doesn’t mean we have to ignore car pollution, especially as i doubt there are coal power stations in London.
Ignore the Delhi comparison, because it’s not relevant. It was just the best graph I could find.
Regardless of ULEZ, pollution has been and still is falling.
