#LondonCalling: Labour learns it is too green to win. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 26 July 2023
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#LondonCalling: Labour learns it is too green to win. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/21/ulez-who-created-the-scheme-blamed-for-labour-by-election-loss-19171216/?ico=tag-post-strip_item_2_news
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone. |
| 0:03.9 | And that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.3 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20mph. |
| 0:12.3 | Because 20mph roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or serious injuries by 24%. |
| 0:19.6 | That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm John Batsy with my friend Joseph Sternberg. He's a member of the editorial board of the |
| 0:39.1 | Wall Street Journal. He's in London and he writes politically economics. And Joe's been traveling, |
| 0:43.6 | but he keeps his eye on the bi-elections. He's the elections between in between the general |
| 0:49.6 | elections, expected at the end of 94 for the United Kingdom. When last we left Mr. Sunak, |
| 0:56.1 | he was in charge of a very troubled, although overwhelmingly, majority party in the parliament. |
| 1:01.5 | And there were several bi-elections, one by labor, two one by labor, but there was one in particular, |
| 1:08.3 | a place called Uxbridge, which I take it as a zone of greater London, where |
| 1:14.4 | Tories held onto the seat, quite to the chagrin of Mr. Starmor leading labor, |
| 1:20.3 | and the editorial writers all pounded labor for not following through on local issues. |
| 1:25.7 | What is the local issue? Well, that's the fun part. It's spelled U-L-E-Z. Joe, what is U-L-E-Z? What |
| 1:33.1 | does this mean? Well, the U-Less is the ultra low emissions zone and it's been initiative of |
| 1:39.7 | London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who's a member of the Labor Party, to try to reduce vehicle emissions |
| 1:47.2 | in the capital region. And so what they do is if you drive a vehicle that is so old that it |
| 1:54.0 | doesn't pass the most stringent emissions tests, you have to pay a daily tax every day you drive |
| 2:02.7 | your car in the zone. And that tax is roughly around $15, depending on the exchange rate |
| 2:10.8 | of the day. So this is not a small thing, particularly if you have people who have no choice but |
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