ULEZ: The Lies Debunked
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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So we're really going to have a culture war over clean air we are? Myths and lies are being pumped out about ULEZ - so I comprehensively debunk them here.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh great, a cultural overcleaned Vithal Air that protects our health and doesn't kill people. |
| 0:04.9 | That's essentially where we're at now with the row over Yulez. That is the |
| 0:08.8 | low ultra low emissions zone, which has just been expanded in London. |
| 0:12.6 | And it's all become shrouded in myths and lies, which is standard fare in the great cultural |
| 0:17.1 | wars, which have gripped this country now for the last seven years or so. |
| 0:20.8 | Now I want to go through these myths and these lies to start with, here's a little chunk |
| 0:25.6 | of me talking about it on Good Morning Britain. Thousands of preventable deaths are linked |
| 0:30.0 | to toxic air every year. It's not just death, by the way, we're talking asthma, |
| 0:33.0 | we're talking stunted lungs of children, we're talking dementia, we're talking cancer, |
| 0:37.6 | these are all, is a public health crisis. In in London, Yulez has brought toxic air down. |
| 0:42.8 | So in central London, central London is brought toxic air down by 50%. |
| 0:47.6 | Now, you know, we have the Conservatives, I saw this this week, I don't know how we can get away. |
| 0:52.0 | Well, politicians just say things which aren't true. They tweeted out saying every car entering |
| 0:57.1 | will face a church. That's not true. 90% of cars, as I've said, aren't affected. |
| 1:01.8 | Well, for small businesses and charities, why is the key starmer seemingly uncombed? |
| 1:07.6 | Well, because I'm afraid he's not exactly the most principled politicians. I have to say, |
| 1:13.2 | throwing Cedet Khan a labour mayor under a bus, when all he's trying to do is extend a scheme |
| 1:19.1 | which has save lives, which will save lives in outer London. And I do think, you know, |
| 1:23.6 | there are people in the home counties, by the way, who come into London, who aren't going to get |
| 1:28.2 | because we can't, they can't spend London taxpayers money helping them. The government should |
| 1:32.1 | step it in. They have stepped in in other parts of the country to offer that scheme. Why not |
| 1:36.7 | do it in the home counties? But now, Yulez means that older polluting vehicles are subject |
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