As anger mounts over Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emissions Scheme (ULEZ), one man has brazenly claimed to have dumped more than 100 enforcement cameras in a pond.
Meanwhile the London Mayor has revealed the shocking levels of abuse he has been subjected to since the scheme was rolled out across the Capital in the summer – including being sent a bullet in the post.
In accordance with the scheme, which applies in all 32 London boroughs, all vehicles failing to comply with emissions standards are required to pay a daily charge of £12.50.
Mr Khan argues the scheme will cut pollution – but critics have branded it a stealth tax on motorists.
One of them, speaking during an anti-ULEZ demonstration in Biggin Hill in south London, claimed to be a scrap metal dealer who gets “eight phone calls a day to collect ULEZ cameras for scrap metal…from the people that have cut them down”.
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After collecting the cameras and their frames, paying £100 for each, the man, who refused to give his name, told Politico he sold the latter for scrap.
As for the cameras themselves, he added: “I pay for them, off the people, and then I chuck them in the pond. I benefit.”
He had got rid of 100 cameras in this way, he boasted.
Mr Khan himself also offered an insight into his reasons for approving the scheme in the first place – as well as the stress he has been under ever since.
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His attention was first drawn to the issue by clean air campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, whose daughter Ella died, aged 9, in 2013, with an inquest directly attributing the tragedy to asthma caused by London’s high levels of pollution.
He said: “Rosamund changed my life. Ella changed my life.
“I’ve got skin in the game, Ella humanises air pollution in ways that no speech, article or interview I can do.
“The struggles she’s had – it’s gotta be worth something, right?”
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Mr Khan also said the decision to enforce ULEZ had come at a high personal cost, explaining: “I’ve received death threats on a whole host of issues, from my views on Trump to my religion. This is the latest incarnation.”
One individual close to the mayor, speaking on condition of anonymity, claimed anti-ULEZ protesters have regularly turned up on Mr Khan’s doorstep in South London home – even when his two daughters were there alone.
Additionally, a caravan was chained outside his house with slogans and artwork including swastikas, the insider claimed.
Earlier this month, during a town hall meeting, a man shouted that in centuries past, Mr Khan would have been hung “from the gallows”.
In October a letter addressed to Mr Khan was found to contain a bullet.
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