Here, courtesy of the LSE, is an article that seems to confirm that the scientific research that supports the expansion of ULEZ is compelling and has not been doctored (unless I have missed something).
As London prepares for the expansion next week of the Ultra Low Emission Zone, Bob Ward dispels the myths around this policy, explaining its origins, the thinking behind the expansion and the links between air pollution and health.
www.lse.ac.uk
Although I live in London, am unaffected as I don't drive.
So it may well be that the expansion and charges are unjustifiable for other reasons, such as that they are burdensome and punitive for those who drive cars that are not exempt from the charge.
Given the length of this thread, I would assume that this side of the debate has already been discussed.
Will therefore take a look later.
My concern is merely to draw attention to the link in case it hasn't previously been posted. Apologies if it has.
The only other thing I would note is that whoever decided on the name 'Blade Runners' to describe those who are vandalising/disabling the cameras must be oblivious to the fact that both movies are set in an environmentally degraded future.
Having said that, the term was originally coined by the wonderfully eccentric American novelist William Burroughs.
Burroughs also liked a good conspiracy theory, and so, when he wasn't shooting up heroin, to which he became re-addicted at the age of 80 (though I might have misremembered his age when this happened), he would probably have been delighted to read about those who regard the policy as one more expression of attempts to exert control over the populace by some kind of shadowy elite (presumably the metropolitan variety that the mediocre political scientist Matthew Goodwin keeps banging on about, or maybe it's the same cabal that was behind the Covid and climate change hoaxes, or perhaps it's eco-friendly cultural Marxists this time, or the shapeshifting paedophile lizards, or the Illuminati...it's hard to keep track of all these malign forces that are competing to brainwash us these days).