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How the fuck has this become a left/right culture war issue?
They won a by-election by opposing the ULEZ expansion, so now he thinks that reversing any policy which might upset car drivers is a general election winning policy.
Sadly, he's probably right.
I prefer to say they 'barely clung onto a previously pretty safe seat whilst using a wedge issue as a bludgeon to beat the opposition'.
If it was a Tory mayor pushing it they'd have got absolutely fucking obliterated.
It was Boris who introduced the idea of ULEZ and the Tory Party who endorsed it. It was their policy to begin with!
Because the automobile and oil industries have plenty of political influence, and they are very afraid of a less car centric future. They will lobby, astroturf, and otherwise manipulate as much as possible.
Like the sudden appearance of outrage over "15 minute cities" amongst the conspiracy brigade. Urban planning theories don't attract much interest from the public usually, but will if spun in to the right narrative and whispered in the right ears.
Not to mention that 15 minute cities are pretty great!
Because of the way the one way systems are here, anything inside a 15 minute walk is already faster to walk to than drive to, and it works well.
How did selling a shackle to the common people that also isolates them from each other and helps keep society stratified, therefore breaking social cohesion, became a left/right issue? I can't quite put my finger on it...
Well when you put it like that ๐
when all you have is a hammer everythings a nail #torymanifesto2024
Because political necromancy has become the order of the day
You'd think tackling air pollution would have cross party consensus but nothing is off limits to populists