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I keep getting half tempted to do my own survey. Walk down a given street with the ULEZ checker open and see what % of cars are not ULEZ exempt. With the amount of noise on the local FB groups, you'd think it was all of them. But just from a glance when riding about, it's gotta be 95%+. As I look out my window now on a pretty heavily parked street, I'm struggling to see one car that would not be exempt. Including my 16 year old C Max.

And like with the LTN shit, all of a sudden so many people are disabled or have some life or death reason to need to drive.

People in cars complaining about traffic is one of the most ironic things you can read/hear.

Won't somebody please think of the disabled!!! who we've happily ignored for years until we can use them as an excuse for bike lanes, parking or driving restrictions or bin collection day changes.

I reckon they'll start hitting the more mental aspects of 15 minute cities hard.

It just seems like a really odd strategy. They’re going hard to win over the hard right people who might vote for reform etc, which according to their recent results is about 3% of voters. There blue wall more moderate voters are really turn off by these policies.

It just seems like a really odd strategy

Think about policies on services like the NHS or policing. I've only used those particular services maybe 6 times in the last decade (inc. the assistance with the birth of 3 children) whereas a large proportion of the country use personal vehicles every day...

Yep, the problem is that whether or not it's a good strategy (and unfortunately, I think it is), Starmer and team are going to get spooked and start rowing back on their green policies. So going into the election next year, both main parties will be trying to outdo each other on anti-green policies. Nightmare scenario.

Won't somebody please think of the disabled!!!

https://www.bikeworks.org.uk/cycle-taxi-service/

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I don’t think so. Polling shows that green policies have majority support, so the Prime Miniature is, once again, championing something that most people want to keep. He really is terrible at politics.

No no no, you're doing it wrong. When I say think about them, I mean, only in the context of using them as leverage in bullshit arguments against cleaner air and fewer cars and... oh why bother

Basing an entire election strategy on 495 people in Uxbridge seems a teeny tiny bit desparate.

It's also the emergency services that get stuck in protests and can't get to you if you live in an LTN

https://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/calling-us/who-will-treat-you/single-responder/cycle-responder/

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^ Val Kilmer is looking well.

Especially as they are pensioner cranks.

There blue wall more moderate voters are really turn off by these policies

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Agree that green policies have majority support, but Sunak is going hard into anti-green policies anyway.

Starmer can either be brave, and stand by his green policy pledges, or he can follow the Tories so he's not exposed at the next election. Unfortunately, I think we can already see the way he's going with his 'review of ULEZ expansion' comment.

And thanks to FPTP, if both main parties are locked in an anti-green doom spiral, what choice do we as the majority of voters have?

That's like me and Labour, tbh. I'll never vote anything else - even Corbyn had my support, and he's a crank.

Well yeah, of course 😂

Until they get in and get PR through in which case voting green might actually be worth something

The full spectrum anti-renewables, pro-oil, pro-combustion engines across the media is just bizarre too; last week this appeared in a rant in The Times

"We haven’t considered if drivers can actually handle the ferocious instant acceleration that many electric cars offer."

Bizarre comment

"We haven’t considered if drivers can actually handle the ferocious instant acceleration that many electric cars offer."

Serious journalism is basically dead on the right.

Unfortunately, I think we can already see the way he's going with his 'review of ULEZ expansion' comment.

I think he did clarify that somewhere in that he was talking about support for the people affected rather than stopping the expansion. He's not coming across as convincing in this area though.

I think this seems to suggest that people should be fine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(acceleration)

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lamborghini-could-hit-10000-sales-this-year-ceo-says-2023-07-31/

No comment necessary.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/31/wild-camping-dartmoor-court-appeal
Woop woop.

Excellent news

(repacks bivvy for hols in a couple of wks...)