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Well some of you will know that after London’s High Court dismissed appeals made by the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow, Hillingdon, and Surrey, the ULEZ zone will extend later this month. However concidering the Conservatives won Uxbridge in the recent bi-election despite the political climate, I can see the extension is far from a popular move with a LARGE majority and with next year beeing the Mayoral election mr Kahn may have others more likely to win on a ULEZ reversal platform. Time will tell.

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Obviously as of this morning the London ULEZ zone goes all the way out to the M25. The problem is it doesn't matter how much you complain, Mr Khan and his friends have the attitude that there are two sets of people, the good people on the bad people. The good people believe in their dream, of a clean London.
I could have complained, I could have helped with petitions, but like I've said before I live in Northamptonshire I don't travel to London and anyway my car's compliant. So Mr Khan's attitude would be I'm just a bad person, who is complaining because I don't understand...
Khan and people like him have the attitude summed up in that line from the Simon & Garfunkel song, 'The boxer' " I man hears what he wants to hear and disregard to the rest." As part of their argument Kahn and his Friends state how many people die each year from car pollution. I have no doubt that this is a true number of people who have died of respiratory failure. But hearing that, they attribute that respiratory failure to polution from cars. Now as higher emmision cars only represent 10% it is doubtful how much change will happen, but no doubt next year's figures of people who died from respiratory failure will be attributed to factors that are their own fault, like smoking cigarettes, these people will no longer have died from cars and their polluted admissions. They will point at the figures and say "look how many people's lives we saved."
In Kahn's world the BAD people will make up excuses and point at things that don't matter, like those people who can't afford modern cars so will now be severely inconvenienced. Businesses will have shut down and lay off their workers because they can't afford ULEZ compliant commercial vehicles. Old people will have to stay at home or catch a bus because they can't afford to pay to drive their own car. The GOOD people such as Kahn and his followers are saving the planet and peoples lives so only their opinion is right. They have a utopian dream of a totally clean London where everybody rides a cycle and there are no such thing as people who can't get around without a car, anything that doesn't fit that narrative is just dismissed as being words of those BAD people.
At the end of the day people like Kahn and other members of the London councils are democratically elected and only the people of London can make decisions about what happens next. Complaining to Central government will have no effect so don't bother your poor MP because he/she can't do anything about it.
However, when you consider how much assumption has been made using statistics which have been plucked out of the air and made to fit the narrative they want, I wonder how long it will be before somebody decides to sue tfl for loss of earnings, having been laid off because their boss could no longer afford to run or replace the fleet of vehicles they drove, in much the same ways as diesel cars are now being spouted as a lawsuit reason. It's one thing to pluck figures and make them fit what you want, but in a law court you've got to show them to be proof, as far as I'm aware no doctor ever wrote on a death certificate "death caused by car pollution from a pre 2005 car."


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