The Conservative Party

[TinFoilHat]

ULEZ a policy brought in by Johnson wins a seat for conservative.

He'll take credit for the win in his column.

 

[Chris in London]

ULEZ a policy brought in by Johnson wins a seat for conservative.

It’s the extension of ULEZ from the central zone that has proved massively unpopular

but probably necessary

 

[TinFoilHat]

It’s the extension of ULEZ from the central zone that has proved massively unpopular

but probably necessary

It's a debate for another thread.
.I agree with you. Climate change is here and some very tough decisions will have to be made to save the planet. We aren't gonna like them from the consumerist view but it will be the difference between living and extinction.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Do the BBC deep freeze Sir John Curtis and thaw him out for elections every couple of years?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

The folk of Uxbridge clearly think labour are a bigger set of cunts than the Tories thanks to the idiot mayor of London. What a fucking prat.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

The folk of Uxbridge clearly think labour are a bigger set of cunts than the Tories thanks to the idiot mayor of London. What a fucking prat.

The extension to the ULEZ zone was announced 2 years ago.... there was no way that Khan could've known that there would be a by election in July of this year.

Between a rock and a hard place.... to have cancelled the extension would've been seen as being underhand and manipulative. .... and the Tories would've campaigned on that.

 

[peter.evans]

And labour only got over a 1000.

Labour and Greens tactical vote?

If so it could be the way forward for the GE to remove the Tories nationwide.

It is the only way forward but Starmer does not appear to be listening !

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

The extension to the ULEZ zone was announced 2 years ago.... there was no way that Khan could've known that there would be a by election in July of this year.

Between a rock and a hard place.... to have cancelled the extension would've been seen as being underhand and manipulative. .... and the Tories would've campaigned on that.

Cancellation/postponement during a cost of living crisis would've shown he didn't have his head up his arse.

 

[Chris in London]

Cancellation/postponement during a cost of living crisis would've shown he didn't have his head up his arse.

And in the meantime the planet just gets hotter.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

And in the meantime the planet just gets hotter.

Yes, all because people in Uxbridge are driving non ulez compliant cars.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

And labour only got over a 1000.

Labour and Greens tactical vote?

If so it could be the way forward for the GE to remove the Tories nationwide.

Labour vote down by 7300.
Although some of that is due to the turnout being down, it's still less than the LD majority.
Green vote went up in actual votes 5.1% up to 10.2%, so not a tactical Green vote.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Not often that local issues affect a vote in London

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

These ULEZ zones are idiotic and people were right to give Labour a bit of a kick because of it.

Effectively forcing people to scrap perfectly good cars before their time and replace them with new ones is not good for the environment.

I don’t mind Sadiq Khan but he’s wrong on this.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Mercer has spent the last month outing himself as a proper **** hasn't he?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

These ULEZ zones are idiotic and people were right to give Labour a bit of a kick because of it.

Effectively forcing people to scrap perfectly good cars before their time and replace them with new ones is not good for the environment.

I don’t mind Sadiq Khan but he’s wrong on this.

If he'd have done something as simple as allow folk in the new zones to register their current vehicles for an exemption ulez would be unopposed and those (older) vehicles would all be off the road within five years or so anyway. Instead he created a financial cliff edge this summer, and it hits the poor (old cars) and tradesmen with vans. Not the Tory vote.

 

[axlgod]

2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

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[Postman Pep]

 

[bluenova]

Labour vote down by 7300.
Although some of that is due to the turnout being down, it's still less than the LD majority.
Green vote went up in actual votes 5.1% up to 10.2%, so not a tactical Green vote.

The picture that should scare the Tories is that Lib Dems are prepared to vote Labour in large numbers, and vice versa. That's the clearest path to wipe out the Tories across the country.

I do wonder if the Green vote is a bit of a Corbyn hangover - A lot of the Corbyn supporting Twitter etc., spend more time criticising and mocking Keir Starmer than being critical of the Tory Government, and that can sustain a 'never-Starmer' block in a way that wouldn't have got traction before Social Media. Hopefully it won't cost too many seats in a General Election, but I suspect the Green's hopes of any kind of informal 'progressive alliance' with Labour and the Lib Dems have taken a hit.

 

[bluethrunthru]