London’s Ulez battle: blade runners, dinosaurs and conspiracy theories

Whatever people's views on pollution, the poor are being hit again, whilst "leaders" continue to travel the world in private jets. Would be nice to see them set an example.

If youre rich, you can pollute, Guardian

They say we must reduce pollution but if you pay them £12.50 you can pollute as much as you like. It’s not about pollution is it?

ULEZ is bizarre. How my 1.2 fiesta can be charged for being too polluting but a 6.3 litre Mercedes with a modified exhaust removing all catalytic converters is fine and free to drive in London is ridiculous.

Air pollution in London is not a conspiracy theory. It's a disagreement on WHO pays for the cost. The wealthy person who pollutes the most or the people close to poverty who pollutes the least. We live in a world where the wealthy can use a private jet to go right into the centre of London but a pensioner with an old, small vehicle is charged £40. See the problem now? Even at the Teddington Action Group, which Khan used the data from to oppose a third runway at Heathrow, the study showed 50% of NOx was caused by Heathrow.... 10 miles away!

People in the UK and Ireland need to stop voting for the Major Parties or this will never stop.

If 95% of vehicles meet the ulez clean air standards - why have this massive expense of a camera network to monitor all the vehicles and to charge the 5% who are unable at this point in time of buying a new car? WHY???

The Guardian really doesn't have the moral authority to comment on what ordinary people feel or do, they are not even what you would call journalists. My advice to the people of London, don't be pushed around by anyone.👍

If my car passed its MOT on emissions but still gets £12.50/day for this ULEZ nonsense, it makes no sense!

A Guardian 'reporter', not biased was he?

Uk almost feels like china in someway. The thirst of control via cameras in insane.

As always the ivory tower guardian journalists are totally out of touch with the normal working public

ULEZ does not stop old polluting cars driving through London, if this was really about air pollution they would be banned outright, no questions asked.

You can tell this guy works for the Guardian. He is so patronising! Air quality has improved in London as vehicles have become cleaner. Scrapping a million MOtable cars is not environmentally sound. I'm guessing you're not affected by this. Wake up Mr Guardian.

While those that make the rules with the global 2030 cities fly in their private jets eating steak telling us we need to cut our CO2 emissions. Blade runners are the real heroes.

We need David Attenborough to narrate the dinosaur humping 😂

Why are the rich kids who run the guardian so hateful of the working class. The guardian is a example of every thing wrong today.

The ULEZ zone completely ignores the environmental impact of huge production of the number of new vehicles needed to replace those that already exist , completely insane

According to WTW, about 40% of all people in the UK already live paycheck to paycheck. It's safe to assume that many of these households own older, less environmentally friendly, but cheaper vehicles. So why tax the poor and risk higher rates of homelessness?

didn't knew Guardian was state controlled like the BBC