28 March (Part 2) - Stop electing Idiots
YouTube is awash with anti-ULEZ comment and
former Bexley Councillor Gareth Bacon (M.P. for Orpington) is doing a fantastic
job of exposing Sadiq Khan’s dishonesty.
The subject was on Mrs. Bacon’s Places Scrutiny Meeting Agenda last week and Councillor
Cameron Smith was asked to update the Committee on his Bexley Impact Assessment. A Task
Group consisting of Councillors Brooks, Adams and Ogundayo is looking at the Impact
on the borough and the mitigations in place. A survey of businesses schools, care providers and NHS Trusts is underway.
The Council’ְs position on ULEZ is well known but the Task Group is examining whether the exemptions
and the scrappage scheme are good enough in the event of tradesmen and the less
well off being priced off the roads.
Councillor Ogundayo (Labour, Thamesmead East) said that the Group is working
well together despite some differences of opinion.
The subject took up almost 150 seconds of the close to three hour meeting.
Spending rather more time on the issue, @tonyofsidcup has had an FOI response
from Bexley Council which reveals that it has so far spent £18,003 on legal fees
on their ULEZ legal challenge and they have budgeted a total of £100,000 as a “worst case scenario”.
Four London boroughs, Bexley, Harrow, Bromley and Hillingdon together with Surrey County Council are
acting together in an attempt to stop the Mayor’s money grabbing move towards road pricing for everyone
at an estimated cost of £400,000.