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khan Ealing Town Hall

I read he is to appear somewhere.If you dare to criticise or oppose his blatant lies, figure manipulating, tunnel visioned pish,regarding knife deaths. Sorry, I meant twisted facts about anti car rhetoric & all the other countless twaddle he & his spin doctors roll out, be there.Question Deidre (Costigan) how their wonderful forced schemes are ballsing up Ealing & half London, with blinkered ill thought out traffic policies.Actually, you won’t be allowed, oppose any of it & you will be unceremoniously ushered out,Don’t forget to cycle or walk to leave room for khans convoy of 800 litre gas guzzling Range Rovers, so he can run off & deny or lie about his life threatening policies.

Peter Yale ● 448d62 Comments

In essence though, there is nothing at all wrong in taking the most polluting vehicles off the road. Sadly, the plan lacks any form of finesse by arbitrarilly basing the restriction on vehicle age when there are tens of thousands of smaller Diesels that have lower particulates and emissions than vehicles constructed after the introduction date of Euro6.  There are many cars, as example, the majority using the smaller PumpDeusse engines which were produced almost a decade before Euro 6 but which, due to their age alone, do not meet the ULEZ requirement, despite their particulates and emissions actually being lower.ULEZ is based on ANPR enforcement it should not be beyond the wisdom of those imposing this to base the charging policy based on actual emissions unless, of course, it is all about taxation rather than improving air quaility.

N V Brooks ● 427d

So being realistic, what do we want to see after all the legal fighting is out of the way?For me it would be the dissolvement to the 32 individual London Boroughs the choice/final say on having or not having any of these data gathering cameras within their Boundaries.It would also give the people a direct say, as you can vote for or against them, at the Ballot Box (Tories against, Labour For etc).This will kill ULEZ off by stealth, as in Conservative Boroughs you will be free to move around, shop where you want etc, and in Labour etc Boroughs you will see the high street die a fairly quick death, unless the Local authority also reject ULEZ Cameras retrospectively.Also Tories are starting to see that if ULEZ kills the High Streets then it kills a major Government cash flow through taxation. Government cannot afford to let everyone switch to Amazon as they get very little returns from them. Conservatives will be quick to act on this, while Labour will not be so fast.So for Labour it will be self destruction of Government Funds just to keep ULEZ if they are that stubborn.

Leslie Bailey ● 427d

Dreadful mistyping, apologies.Hounslow Council are simply in demial about this. They (actually the LCC member of their cabinet resposible in part for this) also lied, yes lied, that the blocking of Occupation Road with concrete blocks had not increased journey times to Clayponds for ambulances and visitors alike.It has also made Occupation Road a no-go area for police with drug dealing rife according to locals.

N V Brooks ● 427d

Hounslow Council are simply in demial about this. Thay (actually the LCC member of their cabinet resposible in part for this) also lies, yes lies, that the blocking of Occupation Road with concrete blocks has increased journey times to Clayponds for ambulances and visitors alike.It has also made Occupation Road a no-go area for police with drug dealing rife according ro locals.

N V Brooks ● 427d

So forcing ambulances to take a 2 mile detour by having Swyncombe Avenue blocked off at the main access route to Little Ealing, South Ealing and Northfields is acceptable?

Raymond Havelock ● 427d

Yes, stop ridiculous anti car measures

Peter Yale ● 428d

Yet Ealing is still often rammed with cars.And this isn't without a lot of negative consequences.It doesn't have to be like that.

Paul James ● 428d

In your absence, the forum was devoid of nonsense. Simply people trying to help each other and reminiscing along with a healthy dose of questioning the toxicity of the council. As I said Paul, your contributions are a cry for help. Try listening to your own counsel.

N V Brooks ● 428d

Why don’t people need to use their cars?They clearly do need to & want to .The congestion is caused by foolhardy schemes, which JulianBell tried to force, sorry “promote “. Luckily common sense prevailed & the public rejected them

Peter Yale ● 428d

Not anti car, anti too many cars, and yes in favour of these schemes. The amount of motor traffic we have in Ealing is not without some horrible consequences for many Peter, and many people who HAVE to use cars (as well as service vehicles, ambulances etc...) are stuck in traffic comprised of people who clearly don't need to be using the car at the time.

Paul James ● 428d

Correct you quoted khans words but implied your agreement.No surpryas you are anti car & all in favour of these schemes

Peter Yale ● 428d

No indication I was quoting?Except I used quote marks?OK Peter.

Paul James ● 428d

More pleasant for you means yourself Simon and Peter getting to write all sorts of nonsense and be nasty without being questioned? :OK Nigel, I see where you're coming from! :D

Paul James ● 428d

You gave no indication that you were quoting, rather insinuating you agree with the ****ers comments.Which invariably you do as you are anti car

Peter Yale ● 429d

This forum has been a noticeably more pleasant place during your absence. Doubtless you are angling for the "please make me a victim", "they made me a victim" routine again. How predictable and you need need to see it as a cry for help, so please get some.

N V Brooks ● 429d

I've quoted what the man said Peter, how can that be cobblers?I won't hold my breath for a sensible response. Just some more nasty abuse I suspect.

Paul James ● 429d

I wonder which of Khan's categories the people standing by Franco Manca protesting about knife crime fell into.

N V Brooks ● 429d

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64833639

Simon Hayes ● 429d

Another puerile comment from PJ who doubtless cycled there to display his "Khan is wonderful" credentials.

N V Brooks ● 429d

Your usual cobblers now you have resurfaced.Continuous anti car tirade up & running again

Peter Yale ● 429d

Demonstrates clearly what I have been saying for some time.  Take a leaf out of The Lefty Activist Handbook and show up mobhanded with pitchforks - and people and The Meeja take notice.......,.. 👍"Talking", Petitions, Objections and "Having discussions" with politicians at Council level is utterly futile and will get you absolutely NOWHERE.

Rosco White ● 429d

>Describing protesters as Far Right was ludicrous and does not help his cause.It was a wholly accurate description of what was going on:“Let’s be frank, let’s call a spade a spade. Some of those outside are part of the far right. Some are Covid deniers. Some are vaccine-deniers. And some are Tories.”

Paul James ● 429d

GLA members are paid over £60,000 per annum for their part time role. Its actually a far better rewarded job than being a local councillor with a fraction of the pressure. I see that the usual suspects have been rolling out in support of Khan complaining that the "protest march" last night was organised by "the far right".Did anyone see a march?

N V Brooks ● 429d

The report on the front page says "several protestors outside the event also cited conspiracy theories about so-called 15-minute cities and the supposed introduction of “social credit systems” in Britain" and "Others depicted Mr Khan with both a swastika and a hammer-and-sickle symbol."Did anyone see these?As Nigel implies, that did not seem to be the mood in the hall itself and all of the reported questions were on the facts of the issue.Personally, I believe that there is a need for a London mayor but the GLA opposition is toothless, possibly because there's no direct route to political advancement in those roles, so no-one with real political clout or nous ever stands for them.

Phil Kay ● 429d

All a bit rich, coming from an arrogant Lefty......  At least I don't think he blamed "The Tory Cuts!"  😂

Rosco White ● 429d

It along with other antics just shows what a despicable situation British Politics has  mutated into.Unfortunately it is us the electorate who have allowed such to be elected.

Raymond Havelock ● 429d

Describing protesters as Far Right was ludicrous and does not help his cause.

Susan Kelly ● 429d

BBC News has just shown a clip of Khan speaking at Ealing Town Hall this evening in which he dismissed those protesting outside the Town Hall against his ULEZ traffic control plans  as being The Far Right and Vaccine Deniers. The bloke is off with the fairies. The audience booed him down.

N V Brooks ● 430d

The fact that the Certificates of Compliance for many popular cars even over 20 years old have NOX readings BELOW the TfL ULez of 0.08 makes one wonder what  it is that is causing these pollution figures. Even if all those cars remain and pay daily they will not be any different to the vehicles that do comply and pretty much the same as the replacement vehicles.On top of that most 15 to 25 year old cars are of very low annual mileage and of good levels of maintenance - very few fail MoTs. Easy documented figures that TfL have chosen to completely ignore.It's a complete con.  Rather like the 'Buy a Diesel' con

Raymond Havelock ● 430d

Remember Both Khan (at DFT) and Starmer were in the Labour Government that made people switch over to the diesel cars being penalised today. Government bribing them with cash and lowering tax on Diesels.So the result is the elderly and infirm now forcibly made housebound by Khan's Labour administration for doing what the last Labour Government told them to do.They are actually being penalised for having the Diesel cars that a Government made/wanted them have.Government caused the above scenario, and TFL needs to put up a 100% replacement of those non-compliant vehicles people were made to switch to.

Leslie Bailey ● 430d

It would be nice to have some numbers on this but I doubt it constitutes more than 1% of total revenues so it seems to be a strange on to lead with. Generally I am not a great believer in PR but it does have the potential to be revenue positive for instance if it is encouraging people to visit London or take up TfL services. If the spending is audited for effectiveness an increase is not necessarily indicative of profligacy The consensus is that rising crime in London is largely down to the fall in police numbers which ultimately is a result of the decline in the grant from central government to the Metropolitan Police. Khan has been associated with some very good initiatives on knife crime although whether is just as a photo op it is hard to tell. He also is investing money out of the GLA budget to increase community policing which he shouldn't have to do In an organisation of the size and complexity of TfL it is not surprising that there are several hundred people on six figure salaries. A lot of these will be engineers with scarce skills or working on the IT side. I would agree that excessive salaries in the public sector at senior level is a problem but I see no evidence that TfL is particularly bad in this regard He would have been obliged to publicly support the head of the Met until it was time for her to go. It seems in retrospect that doing so was the right decision I would tend to broadly agree with you on this point with the caveat that the ULEZ expansion was mandated in the DfT's funding package for TfL so he had little choice. I refer you to 2. You need to make your mind up, do you want a low precept rise or more police officers? I am not Sadiq Khan's number one fan. My views are that his abilities are very limited and, when I have seen him in action at meeting, he gave the impression of being slightly out of his depth. However, he also appears to be a decent, unflashy, courteous individual with a genuine sense of mission to do the right thing for London. Had Rory Stewart remained a candidate, I would have voted for him but of those that remained during the last contest, I think Londoners chose wisely and I can't see anyone emerging at this stage to seriously challenge him if he chooses to stand again.  

Gordon Southwell ● 431d

London news headline. 16 stabbed, 2 shot, 1 bludgeoned to death, this week.Nothing about thousands dieing from air quality

Peter Yale ● 432d

She won't like that!

Peter King ● 433d

Here’s another one Phillipa.When we were at Euro 96 in Germany. It was lively & a big event.Buses & trams etc were outside stadia, ready to transport the public away.Worked fantastically.2023 Wembley 297 bus 20 mins - “real time “10 mins later, still 20 mins!!!!!?Another 10 mins & bus due (along with 3 others) 11 mins.20 mins later, give up,Walk, cycle or use public transport or die of boredom, old age, while TfL cretins boast every journey matters.That’s why people drive. It’s easier

Peter Yale ● 434d

I’m away on a tour , using a motor vehicle for convenience .Something he (& a lot of others hate) otherwise I would ask.I also write to tfl & that is a palaver

Peter Yale ● 434d

He won’t have any idea. Despite being the ‘decision maker’ (as he describes himself at every City Hall question time) Khan never, ever gets told anything about his pet projects until he receives the final report.The only person who believes that is Sadiq Khan.

Simon Hayes ● 435d

Why don't you ask him yourself?

Philippa Bond ● 435d

Can someone ask khan why the cones on the A40 were put in place, yet not a single seconds work carried out for days? Probably still the case.How does that improve congestion & pollution, listen to his claptrap answer then

Peter Yale ● 436d

Surely Bill Gates is too busy financing nanobots to be incorporated into covid vaccines in order that conspiracy theorists and other loonies can be controlled. 😱

N V Brooks ● 437d

It’s not private cars that are the problem, it’s consumerism. The C40 cities include quite a few in China, which is responsible for about 25-30 percent of global emissions. This is driven by demand for Chinese made products. Ironically, that includes all the smartphones Khan, Bloomberg and everyone else, including me, use. Factor in the environmental impact of the data centres used to service the Cloud and it’s not so clear cut.The usual claptrap is spouted - and it’s familiar to anyone who has been involved in the LTN or other transport controversies - about the enormous benefits of cycling to the economy, lapped up by supposed ‘socialist’ leaders everywhere. The Copenhagen analysis they rely on is inherently flawed, and certainly doesn’t apply to a city as large and complex as London. Khan underestimates the strength of feeling against his policies, largely because he hasn’t been honest about his long-term goals. There will be a reckoning.I wonder if he will come to Ealing on a bike, by Tube or, most likely, in a chauffeur driven 4x4?

Simon Hayes ● 437d

It's a plot by Bill Gates and the WEF I tell you!

Kevin Wilson ● 437d

What so many ignore is Khan’s agenda in all this. He is the chairman of C40- an organisation of mayors from originally 40 cities, now 90. Stage 1 of their plan is 100 cars off every 1,000 off the road. Stage 2 is then 500 cars off the road of every 1,000. Stage 3. Yes, you’ve got it- all the rest that are left off the road. They want all private cars off the road. So for all those people sitting back thinking their nice cars are OK- your time will come.

Bettina Margaret Thwaite ● 437d

I know selling off the state to foreign companies is not a new thing.  What on earth made you think I thought that it was?It is just that it continues and often without much fuss and much attention but then what do you expect when you look at who owns our press?https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-register-to-crack-down-on-dirty-money-and-corrupt-elites-in-uk-goes-livehttps://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-takes-landmark-steps-to-further-clamp-down-on-dirty-money

Philippa Bond ● 438d

ULEZ expansion won’t make a jot of difference to air quality in outer London. TfL’s own most recent Travel in London report shows that emissions are way below danger levels, other than on the main arterial routes and, glaringly, Heathrow.There’s been a lot of whinging about Brexit, which was a mistake clearly, but ULEZ expansion will exacerbate that. Hounslow has the highest number of non-compliant vehicles. 29 percent of its population doesn’t speak English as a first language and the information has simply not got through.It’s a tax, as Nigel said, and one that will have to be passed on to customers by the businesses who have to pay it, so don’t be surprised when your delivery charges go through the roof.What’s also been overlooked in the council tax reporting is that every household is paying £20 to fund TfL. That’s a flat rate for everyone, regardless of whether you use any if it’s services or not.It’s somewhat laughable, Philippa, that you seem to think foreign ownership of UK companies is a new thing. New Labour under Blair and Brown were very enthusiastic about such ‘inward investment’. It’s why London became the money laundering capital of the world. Of course the Tories (and their  LibDem chums in 2010) could have cleaned things up, but it’s foolish to imagine that politicians should be trusted on anything.

Simon Hayes ● 438d

Good to see you've got the message. There won't be anything left soon.  We already have a lot of important services/infrastructure owned by foreign investors including foreign governments.  Some of them just asset strip everything notwithstanding any Gentlemen's Agreements.  https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-11503485/National-Grid-complete-sale-gas-unit-end-January.html

Philippa Bond ● 438d

I don't think any one else has forgotten it.

David Burke ● 438d

Ah yes, I keep forgetting - "It's The Tory Cuts!"    🤣

Rosco White ● 438d

Could it be his abject failure to1. Control his profligate spending on his PR machine2. His failure to deliver on knife crime3. His failure to deliver on his ever modified (lowered) targets forhousing starts.3. His failure to rein-in the overspends at TfL where 600 individuals now have packages over £100k p.a.4. His hypocrisy in publically supporting Cressida Dick (who was a disaster) while, at the same time, plotting her downfall. 5. by imposing a £12.50 tax which he tries to spin will make the air cleaner. It will have virtually no impact.6. By raising his precept by a record amount to fund vanity projects.An abject failure as a mayor (as were both of his predecessors). It has nothing to do with his colour or faith.London deserves far better

N V Brooks ● 438d

I do sometimes wonder what it is about our Muslim Mayor of Pakistani origin which attracts such vitrolic abuse. He seems to me a fundamentally decent individual who is possibly not up to the job but who generally tries to do the right thing and stick up for the city's interest. Simon makes a good point about the misuse of statistics by this administration. You could arguing that it is a step up from the bare faced lying of the previous incumbent but, in many ways it is more insidious and damaging. Time and time again information is presented in a highly misleading manner to justify a policy with claims made which the most cursory example would show are not justified. This possibly could be down to Sadiq Khan's background as a lawyer which leads him to think that the most important thing is for a point to be backed by evidence rather than it to actually be true. With a growing industry of people employed by academic institutions paid for the tax payer who are actually really just lobbyists for special interest groups, there is never a shortage of 'evidence' to back any particular policy. This may have been what Michael Gove was trying to drive at when he said that people were sick of experts. He was wrong in the sense that the overwhelming view of people who knew what they were talking about on Brexit was that it was a terrible idea, but he did identify a truth that policy makers misuse 'experts' to justify policies on spurious grounds. 

Gordon Southwell ● 438d

The current Mayor has to do a lot of what the Govt wants since TfL is funded by the Govt and TfL has lost so much revenue mostly due to the pandemic and the consequent loss of custom.  You should have a look at the funding agreements - and don't forget the the first ULEZ was announced by Mayor Boris Johnson who then promptly stood down before it was implemented.  He just hates being unpopular.You should be grateful for the fact that someone is doing something about air pollution and climate change considering the fact that the current Govt were taken to the High Court several times for not only not doing anything but not even having an excuse and a plan for doing something.  They were hijacked by the far right neoliberal part of the party who are and have been busy reducing services and selling off anything they can as fast as possible.

Philippa Bond ● 438d

Gruesome Twosome - Khan & Rayner ....😆

Rosco White ● 438d

He's after a peerage and a top international job on the gravy train.Not bad for a below average Lawyer who was outshone by the office junior.

Raymond Havelock ● 438d

The Twat needs to sort out Knife Crime more than anything else........

Rosco White ● 439d

Invented stats, distorted counts, failure to record baseline data, etc, etc.There really should not be any surprise that the Mayor relies on mythical mathematics. He’s pursuing a political career on the basis of being a passionate environmental activist, albeit one who gets ferried about in an armoured 4x4 and enjoys flying around the globe selling Brand London.I bet his book is a real page-turner.

Simon Hayes ● 439d

Khan now buying votes with his school meals 'initiative' something that could be done without any GLA intervention but which deflects attention from both his profligacy and ULEZ.  Simply paying £12.50 a day does not make a polluting vehicle clean, it's a tax!

N V Brooks ● 439d

Best BBC London could manage to find to address the Mayors claim of 4000 children dying from car pollution annually in London was.....Prof Kelly.Whom has been funded by TfL and various eco organisations to deliver what they want to hear. And he has done very nicely out of it. With a dept at a university.However it transpired that the figure is purely modelled supposition with no actual figures or evidence whatsoever. And no comparison data from 10, 20 or 50 years ago per 1000.Whoops!

Raymond Havelock ● 439d

He's a coward, happy to go on James O'Brians show on LBC or Eddie Nestor on BBC London while they clean his very small shoes under the table while he talk c&£p as usual. Mention radio's version of Andrew Neil (Nick Ferrari) and he doesn't want to know. I like chicken tonight!

Peter King ● 439d

Correct.

Rosco White ● 439d

The mayorality should be abolished. It just doesn’t work for London to have so much power in the hands of one man. None of the incumbents since 2000 has covered themselves with glory, what with silly tram projects, garden bridges and now the ULEZ expansion fiasco.Khan wants credit for anything that goes well but hides away from responsibilities when things go wrong. He enthusiastically agreed to Cressida Dick getting an extra two years as Met Commissioner in September 2021, yet demanded her resignation in February 2022. He knew full well the Met was failing months earlier but ignored it. There are numerous other examples of where he claimed ‘no knowledge’ of things, yet his quotes appear all over the press releases his team puts out, including during supposed consultation periods. If he really doesn’t know what’s going on day to day he shouldn’t be in charge.Toxic air? Toxic Mayor!

Simon Hayes ● 439d

We don’t actually need a Mayor at all. I’m old enough, like some of you, to remember when the position didn’t exist. London worked perfectly well. Funny that.

Bettina Margaret Thwaite ● 439d

Correct.

Rosco White ● 439d

The man is a useless idiot.  We need a Mayor that actually cares about London!

Danielle Fox ● 439d