Put your hands UP & Bend Over - Is this 1941 Europe ?

teamzr1

Supporting vendor
A major city has instituted a draconian law to satisfy the climate change religion backed up by a mass surveillance camera network, resulting in a defacto tax costing residents hundreds.
And authorities are shocked that citizens are taking matters into their own hands by vandalizing and disabling the Big Brother cameras that monitor compliance.

Citizens of London are furious over the city’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) rules that renders a large section of the city practically inaccessible by car because there are very few vehicles that meet the draconian emissions standards that permit them to enter the zone, according to The Drive. (READ THIS)

London city officials have designated a 147 square-mile sector as its pollution-free Ultra Low Emission Zone, supposedly to clean up the air quality in the city that was once derided as “The Big Smoke” due to its air pollution.

The idea is to discourage citizens from driving in this zone by charging them fines for driving the wrong kind of auto into the area.
Officials hope that citizens will get the message and buy vehicles that have higher emission standards and stop using their older vehicles.

To achieve this, officials have set up a massive network of hundreds of cameras that monitor the streets and take photos of every car on the road.
This photo is then compared to vehicle registrations, which tell the computer system whether the license plate is on a car that meets the standards.

If the car does not meet the standards, the owner is sent a $15.88 fine per day.
And if the fines are not paid, they will be charged an additional $288.71 on top of the missed fines.

Even worse, the ULEZ has no grandfather clause for people who live and work in the area and no immunity for them from the ULEZ rules.

In other words, citizens were instantly barred from driving to the grocery store, their schools, their church, or their jobs unless they want to pay an additional $16 a day fine.
This means that the second the ULEZ surveillance system was switched on, millions of residents were made instant climate change criminals whose only choices are to suffer a $16 a day tax/fine, to stop driving at all, or be forced to spend up to $50,000 or more to buy a new car, such as an electric vehicle, that meets the new ULEZ standards.
Naturally, residents are not amused.

The problem is about to get even worse because London’s city hall has announced that it intends to expand this zone to over 600 square miles and to include an additional five million residents next year, all of whom will similarly become instant criminals once the new zone takes effect.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan described the plan as “transformational” and was excited to announce that “five million more people will be able to breathe cleaner air and live healthier lives,” the Metro reported.
Some residents inside the ULEZ, though, are not sitting idly by and allowing city hall to oppress them with these draconian climate change rules.

A group calling themselves the “ULEZ blade runners” is striking back and has engaged in a massive act of civil disobedience by vandalizing, disabling, or blocking the Big Brother surveillance system with which Mayor Khan has burdened them.
One man who claims to belong to this group told the Daily Mail that he and his fellow blade runners are trying to “wake up the sleeping masses.”

“There are 24 hours in a day. We either fight it or accept it. We do whatever we can,” the man said.
“What we will achieve by our actions is the removal of the infrastructure and waking up the sleeping masses to what is really going on.”
“We are going to take down every single one no matter what,” another protester told the paper.

Fed-up citizens have used cordless impact tools to actually remove the cameras and tote them away, they have cut wires to make them inoperable or somehow obscured the camera lenses by covering them by various means such as bags or paint splashes.

Officials reported that 96 cameras were affected in one way or another in May,
but since then, the police have mysteriously stopped reporting on the number of cameras damaged or blocked.
One London Metropolitan Police report had said that about a dozen cameras are being vandalized per week in the capital city of a nation increasingly trending towards authoritarianism.

Naturally, the police department has announced that it has created a new unit to track down such scofflaws in an effort the department is calling “Operation Eremon.” The LMP, though, did not elaborate on how this unit will operate and what methods it will sue to catch the vandals.
City hall is also trying to denigrate the blade runner groups as mere “vandals” who have no purpose other than to act like punks.
“It is deeply disappointing to see opposition to a policy being used as an excuse for criminal damage,” a city representative said. “This petty vandalism of London’s essential transport infrastructure is completely unacceptable.”

Clearly city hall does not want to admit that these residents have a legitimate beef with their out-of-control government as elites who are nearly unaffected by these draconian rules place huge burdens on the lower and middle classes and make the lives of citizens worse.

These pitiful attempts to satisfy the global warming high priests really have little to no impact on the climate, especially since these same elites utterly ignore — and even sanction — the far worse acts of climate destruction being wrought by China and in the Third World.
This ULEZ policy is just more proof that the elites care more about their agenda than they do about the lives of their own citizens.
 

phild

CCCUK Member
A major city has instituted a draconian law to satisfy the climate change religion backed up by a mass surveillance camera network, resulting in a defacto tax costing residents hundreds.
And authorities are shocked that citizens are taking matters into their own hands by vandalizing and disabling the Big Brother cameras that monitor compliance.

Citizens of London are furious over the city’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) rules that renders a large section of the city practically inaccessible by car because there are very few vehicles that meet the draconian emissions standards that permit them to enter the zone, according to The Drive. (READ THIS)

London city officials have designated a 147 square-mile sector as its pollution-free Ultra Low Emission Zone, supposedly to clean up the air quality in the city that was once derided as “The Big Smoke” due to its air pollution.

The idea is to discourage citizens from driving in this zone by charging them fines for driving the wrong kind of auto into the area.
Officials hope that citizens will get the message and buy vehicles that have higher emission standards and stop using their older vehicles.

To achieve this, officials have set up a massive network of hundreds of cameras that monitor the streets and take photos of every car on the road.
This photo is then compared to vehicle registrations, which tell the computer system whether the license plate is on a car that meets the standards.

If the car does not meet the standards, the owner is sent a $15.88 fine per day.
And if the fines are not paid, they will be charged an additional $288.71 on top of the missed fines.

Even worse, the ULEZ has no grandfather clause for people who live and work in the area and no immunity for them from the ULEZ rules.

In other words, citizens were instantly barred from driving to the grocery store, their schools, their church, or their jobs unless they want to pay an additional $16 a day fine.
This means that the second the ULEZ surveillance system was switched on, millions of residents were made instant climate change criminals whose only choices are to suffer a $16 a day tax/fine, to stop driving at all, or be forced to spend up to $50,000 or more to buy a new car, such as an electric vehicle, that meets the new ULEZ standards.
Naturally, residents are not amused.

The problem is about to get even worse because London’s city hall has announced that it intends to expand this zone to over 600 square miles and to include an additional five million residents next year, all of whom will similarly become instant criminals once the new zone takes effect.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan described the plan as “transformational” and was excited to announce that “five million more people will be able to breathe cleaner air and live healthier lives,” the Metro reported.
Some residents inside the ULEZ, though, are not sitting idly by and allowing city hall to oppress them with these draconian climate change rules.

A group calling themselves the “ULEZ blade runners” is striking back and has engaged in a massive act of civil disobedience by vandalizing, disabling, or blocking the Big Brother surveillance system with which Mayor Khan has burdened them.
One man who claims to belong to this group told the Daily Mail that he and his fellow blade runners are trying to “wake up the sleeping masses.”

“There are 24 hours in a day. We either fight it or accept it. We do whatever we can,” the man said.
“What we will achieve by our actions is the removal of the infrastructure and waking up the sleeping masses to what is really going on.”
“We are going to take down every single one no matter what,” another protester told the paper.

Fed-up citizens have used cordless impact tools to actually remove the cameras and tote them away, they have cut wires to make them inoperable or somehow obscured the camera lenses by covering them by various means such as bags or paint splashes.

Officials reported that 96 cameras were affected in one way or another in May,
but since then, the police have mysteriously stopped reporting on the number of cameras damaged or blocked.
One London Metropolitan Police report had said that about a dozen cameras are being vandalized per week in the capital city of a nation increasingly trending towards authoritarianism.

Naturally, the police department has announced that it has created a new unit to track down such scofflaws in an effort the department is calling “Operation Eremon.” The LMP, though, did not elaborate on how this unit will operate and what methods it will sue to catch the vandals.
City hall is also trying to denigrate the blade runner groups as mere “vandals” who have no purpose other than to act like punks.
“It is deeply disappointing to see opposition to a policy being used as an excuse for criminal damage,” a city representative said. “This petty vandalism of London’s essential transport infrastructure is completely unacceptable.”

Clearly city hall does not want to admit that these residents have a legitimate beef with their out-of-control government as elites who are nearly unaffected by these draconian rules place huge burdens on the lower and middle classes and make the lives of citizens worse.

These pitiful attempts to satisfy the global warming high priests really have little to no impact on the climate, especially since these same elites utterly ignore — and even sanction — the far worse acts of climate destruction being wrought by China and in the Third World.
This ULEZ policy is just more proof that the elites care more about their agenda than they do about the lives of their own citizens.

The elections for London Mayor are due next year, interesting to see what happens and who gets in. The Conservative candidate is, supposedly, going to reverse Khans handiwork on ULEZ so we'll have to wait and see.
 

CaptainK

CCCUK Member
Though I don't agree with the ULEZ rubbish, that article does seem a bit "sensational" about how people won't be able to drive, and many many pounds needed to be spent etc. As far as I'm aware, you just need a Euro 4 petrol car (2005 onwards?), or euro 6 diesel car (2015 onwards?), or an old car over 40 years old. So there will be a fair few people that will have a compatible car, but for everyone else, yeah, they are royally screwed thanks to the London Mayor.
The double killer is the "congestion charge" as well.

Ross has been posting on the ULEZ mess for a while now. I won't be surprised at all if the London Mayor gets booted in the next election. And rightly so.
 

Chuffer

CCCUK regional rep
Though I don't agree with the ULEZ rubbish, that article does seem a bit "sensational" about how people won't be able to drive, and many many pounds needed to be spent etc. As far as I'm aware, you just need a Euro 4 petrol car (2005 onwards?), or euro 6 diesel car (2015 onwards?), or an old car over 40 years old. So there will be a fair few people that will have a compatible car, but for everyone else, yeah, they are royally screwed thanks to the London Mayor.
The double killer is the "congestion charge" as well.

Ross has been posting on the ULEZ mess for a while now. I won't be surprised at all if the London Mayor gets booted in the next election. And rightly so.
Sadiq Khan has done more pillaging of the tax payers and general population than Ghengis Khan and his Mongol hoards ever did !! :mad:
 

Nassau65

CCCUK Member
Having lived with the original congestion charge for the central London area I wasn’t surprised when the first ULEZ zone was introduced to the same area as the congestion charge. I thought it was a bit strong when it expanded to the north and south circular roads, but wasn’t surprised. The next natural boundary was of course the M25, and many people including myself thought that at some time in the future it will expand again to that. Didn’t realise it would be done so quickly.
My daily’s are ULEZ compliant so I’m OK, I’m only paying the £15 congestion charge, but a few friends are having to change their vehicles as they are non compliant diesel’s. My friends 1989 Mercedes 300SL falls into that category and after owning it for 30 years she will no longer be able to drive it without paying £12.50 per day. And of course how long before that charge increases to £15 per day same as the congestion charge?
Our own 1986 280SL which has been garaged since 2005 and hasn’t moved since ( sad I know) won’t be coming out now at all, until it’s 40 years old in 2026.
 

Roscobbc

Moderator
Having an office in Blackwall Basin, just off Canary Wharf in the early 2000's I have seen the Congestion Charge 'morf' from a simple daily charge affecting just central London through to the the initial ULEZ zone covering most outer London postal districts within the North and South Circular roads to its latest change (in a couple of weeks).
Have also seen the 'rise' and take-over of many London Boroughs by left wing, greenie and radical's. Most of these boroughs are anti-car and like Khan's TFL push cycle lanes and minimise car access on the pretext of 'cleaner' air etc. Problem being that closing vehicular access to certain streets means that same vehicles then have to use other streets. Residents of these street are then incensed that they have increased congestion and pollution so act to stop their street being used by everyday traffic.......so that road gets shut down.........and the local authority decided to 'fence' all the residents-in with one of the '15 minute' plans.
As has been mentioned many people in London (and/or travelling in London) if owing a post 2015 diesel or 2005 petrol vehicle are likely to be exempt for the charge. If your vehicle is non-compliant you've had a year to consider your options - day £12.50 a day (perhaps £25 if your journey includes remaining in London after 11.59pm) or 'upgrading' to a compliant vehicle (which is what I had to do) - thing is........even the cheapest, crappiest, oldest post 2005 compliant petrol cars have increased in price threefold or more. Post 2015 compliant diesels......don't even think about it!
Beware.......of 'false' applicants for the position of London mayor. The expanded ULEZ zone will have been in operation for 9 months when the next mayoral election happens. Will the next mayor reverse this? - our current Tory governement isn't doing anything to overturn it. Labour's Starmer wasn't saying anything initially, then said it should be withdrawn, later reversed his comments and coming out as pro-ULEZ.
There will be a significant 'hidden' cost to the ULEZ expansion.......very few people working in London's service industries, especially shift workers who have to use a car and own perfectly serviceable non ULEZ compliant vehicles will be unable to afford the daily £12.50 or £25 cost.
There you have it.......the continuing of London's Ghettoisation.
And as your very own local authority head (with his/her 'fat' pension scheme) looks with his committee for additional ways to 'fleese' you all for ever increasing council tax a version of ULEZ in your area will eventually become irresistable...........
 
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Roscobbc

Moderator
You should see me in my carefully designed topless swim suite . !!!:eek:
The very use of the word 'suite' (rather than suit) indicates something on the line of this
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Instead of perhaps this.........
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Apologies for the first image........once seen - mentally you can't unsee it!
 
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