ULEZ vigilante boasts of ‘throwing 100 cameras in the pond’
As anger mounts over Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emissions Scheme (ULEZ), one man has brazenly claimed to have dumped more than 100 enforcement cameras in a pond.
Meanwhile the London Mayor has revealed the shocking levels of abuse he has been subjected to since the scheme was rolled out across the Capital in the summer – including being sent a bullet in the post.
In accordance with the scheme, which applies in all 32 London boroughs, all vehicles failing to comply with emissions standards are required to pay a daily charge of £12.50.
Mr Khan argues the scheme will cut pollution – but critics have branded it a stealth tax on motorists.
One of them, speaking during an anti-ULEZ demonstration in Biggin Hill in south London, claimed to be a scrap metal dealer who gets “eight phone calls a day to collect ULEZ cameras for scrap metal…from the people that have cut them down”.
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After collecting the cameras and their frames, paying £100 for each, the man, who refused to give his name, told Politico he sold the latter for scrap.
As for the cameras themselves, he added: “I pay for them, off the people, and then I chuck them in the pond. I benefit.”
He had got rid of 100 cameras in this way, he boasted.
Mr Khan himself also offered an insight into his reasons for approving the scheme in the first place – as well as the stress he has been under ever since.
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His attention was first drawn to the issue by clean air campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, whose daughter Ella died, aged 9, in 2013, with an inquest directly attributing the tragedy to asthma caused by London’s high levels of pollution.
He said: “Rosamund changed my life. Ella changed my life.
“I’ve got skin in the game, Ella humanises air pollution in ways that no speech, article or interview I can do.
“The struggles she’s had – it’s gotta be worth something, right?”
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Mr Khan also said the decision to enforce ULEZ had come at a high personal cost, explaining: “I’ve received death threats on a whole host of issues, from my views on Trump to my religion. This is the latest incarnation.”
One individual close to the mayor, speaking on condition of anonymity, claimed anti-ULEZ protesters have regularly turned up on Mr Khan’s doorstep in South London home – even when his two daughters were there alone.
Additionally, a caravan was chained outside his house with slogans and artwork including swastikas, the insider claimed.
Earlier this month, during a town hall meeting, a man shouted that in centuries past, Mr Khan would have been hung “from the gallows”.
In October a letter addressed to Mr Khan was found to contain a bullet.
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