The Conservative Party

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Very disheartening but obviously the local ULEZ issue made a difference. In all 3 constituencies less than 50% turnout. In a ballot for industrial action less than 50% turnout makes the result irrelevant by law. Democracy?

I wonder how many were turned away?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

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.

The lib dem win is brutal in scale. It puts the core of the safe tory seats at risk.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The Tories campaigned against their own policy

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

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.

And in the meantime the planet just gets hotter.

It’s not the planet mate, it’s the 240,000 London children with asthma with well over 3,500 of those admitted to hospital in the last year.
Of the London GP’s with the most registered asthmatics, 80% of them are outside the ULEZ zone.

Ealing came top for asthma prevalence of all the London boroughs. Nearly a quarter (23%) of the top 30 GP practices in London were in Southall, Ealing. Hillingdon and Sutton followed as the local authorities with the highest number of people registered at GP practices who are receiving care for their asthma.
Road traffic is responsible for over 40% London’s air pollution.
If not ULEZ, what?

 

[Scottyboi]

What a fucking weasel.

 

[bluethrunthru]

lol

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

The Tories campaigned against their own policy

And, here it is.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

The Tories campaigned against their own policy

Corinne Stockheath sounds like a nonce.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

It’s not the planet mate, it’s the 240,000 London children with asthma with well over 3,500 of those admitted to hospital in the last year.
Of the London GP’s with the most registered asthmatics, 80% of them are outside the ULEZ zone.

Ealing came top for asthma prevalence of all the London boroughs. Nearly a quarter (23%) of the top 30 GP practices in London were in Southall, Ealing. Hillingdon and Sutton followed as the local authorities with the highest number of people registered at GP practices who are receiving care for their asthma.
Road traffic is responsible for over 40% London’s air pollution.
If not ULEZ, what?

Ulez itself is fine for all the reasons you suggest. The issue is the speed of the expansion at a time when people do not have the money to replace their cars.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Ulez itself is fine for all the reasons you suggest. The issue is the speed of the expansion at a time when people do not have the money to replace their cars.

Does Uxbridge not have buses or nearby rail and underground stations?