Brace for Labour’s War on Cars as Sadiq Khan Draws Up Plans to Use Ulez Cameras to Enforce Pay-per-Mile Road Tax
Millions of drivers are in danger of being hit by a new pay-per-mile road tax under Labour plans seen by the Mail on Sunday.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for an army of experts to build a “sophisticated” new pricing system for the capital’s roads – using the cameras installed for his hugely controversial ultra low emission zone (Ulez) and Congestion Charge schemes.
It would mean drivers could incur charges based on the length of the trip taken, the congestion levels on the roads and the levels of pollution emitted.
A source said: “It is an open secret in City Hall that it is being worked on.”
A dedicated website called Project 2030 contains a request for engineers to “join TfL [Transport for London] now” to “lead the way in introducing a new, more sophisticated type of road pricing”.
The move has sparked concerns that Labour could roll out similar road taxes across the country, hitting millions. Amid claims that the party is working towards a “carless society”, Transport Secretary Mark Harper has written to Sir Keir Starmer to warn that the Government would legislate to block Labour from bringing in road charging.
Although Mr. Khan has denied any plans for per-mile charging, papers produced by the Mayor’s office and TfL explain how road pricing could work: “New technology could be used to integrate existing schemes such as the Congestion Charge, Lez and Ulez into a smarter, simpler and fair scheme that would charge motorists on a per-mile basis.
“Different charging rates would apply depending on variables such as how polluting a vehicle is, the level of congestion in the area and access to public transport.”
The document, which was part of a consultation on Ulez, added: “We are now starting to explore the potential for future road user charging.”
A well-placed source said the cameras from Ulez and the congestion charge could be used to develop the levy.
Mr. Harper said: “It has been suggested Labour plan to use air pollution to attempt to justify bringing in pay-per-mile charging for every car in London.”
He added that the Government will back an amendment to the upcoming Levelling Up Bill to ensure such changes require local council consent.
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Khan is a megalomaniac. Cannot stand the traitorous little scrote. Here’s a 1min clip of a London cab driver who I think would agree. Anyone else in London who can attest to this? It seems an inevitable result anyway.
https://twitter.com/TheFreds/status/1695372719544524863
Link doesn’t seem to work any more Mogs – I’m getting a nothing to see here page.
Strange. Just tried and it worked for me. Hope ‘X’ hasn’t gone back to its former weirdness of only allowing access for account holders..
Link works for me.
Here it is also;
https://www.facebook.com/DailyExpress/videos/sadiq-khan-heckled-by-cab-driver/637794717110333/
Morning Mogs, nice to see your up and at it early🤗!
Vehicle excise duty! Road tax.. and pay per mile.. road tax…then there’s the tax tax, and the fuel tax tax tax tax!
What a wonderful country Britain has become!!!
I think we must realise that all these awful things that are happening will not be unique to Britain. It’s this Mayors thing and will be happening in many other countries across the world.
Yes, it doesn’t matter a jot which political party a mayor is aligned to, like all establishment parties they are ultimately following the agendas of the UN, WEF, think tanks ,lobbyists, billionaires, foundations and politicised global investment banks.
By the way, I love the diverse group of police officers in the background they’ve managed to corral together for this photo opportunity!
The ordinary white guy is the odd one out in his own country and he’s the one who’s fu£#ed off! No wonder people are burning books to get heard!
At what point does the population wake up?
What can be done if we do 🥴
If you haven’t done so already join, give donations and become an activist with a centre right challenger party. Also, stop paying the TV propaganda tax and stop buying or subscribing to any national newspaper – that will do for starters.
There is already a pay-per-mile road tax. It’s called Fuel Duty.
And you realise that most of your fuel cost is tax when you go to a country where fuel prices are.less that half of those we pay.
Not if you drive a battery powered car.
Good point. Another way in which we’re subsidising people rich enough to own EVs – a lot of whom I am willing to bet own them through their firms, which is another wealth transfer scam (I believe there is some kind of scheme where you save the VAT – we were offered it at work – similar to the “bike to work” scheme).
Some firms with on-site charging could offer it as a benefit as well. Not sure if there’s any income tax on that – probably not.
Depends where you charge it. Commercial outlets have to charge 20% VAT, whereas if you do it at home it’s 5% (as for all electric import – for now). Otherwise, it’s fuel excise duty (52.95 p/l) with VAT on top, so 63.4 p/l, or about 6.55 p/kWh thermal for E10 petrol. Diesel is better value tax wise, on account of it’s energy content per unit volume.
Strangely the cost is very little different. I suppose it is “saving the planet” though, but I really cannot understand how. My garden plants really appreciate the extra CO2!
It’s been obvious for some time that this is the plan. It’s the classic boiling frog scam:
And Khan will argue that he has listened to complaints that (4) unfairly penalises the old, poor and vulnerable …… so he’s “levelled it out” and made everyone bear the cost of “improving air quality” by taxing everyone who dares to drive a vehicle in Greater London.
Calling it Labour’s war on cars is pure deception.
The Conservative government is the one that passed the legislation condemning us to net zero targets.
But it’s not a UK issue alone. It is the plan for the entire western world imposed on us by a transnational oligarchy.
That is in fact so obvious to see it just reveals so clearly how our media is working for the oligarchy against ordinary people.
I just can’t see how people can continue to make this a party political issue (let alone continue to vote for the same old parties). It will be interesting to see how the public react as our freedoms continue to be eroded. Unfortunately I suspect the vast majority will be carried along by whatever ‘granny killer’ narrative gets used.
Correct! Bharrr 🐑!
…there’s a sheep Emoji..how have I missed that?? LOL!
No travelling of any kind coming soon…no heat, warmth or house owning coming soon…
….The last UK ammonia producing fertiliser factory has just closed…so with mRNA animal jabs, fake meat and GMO crops..no food….…
…No escape from the LGBTQ hellscape, and it seems we are not far off outside agencies sexualising all children from birth…
No dissent…already here and already censored…
Coming soon, you won’t even have the pretence, which is all it is currently, that you are voting for anyone or anything real, or that it can’t be cheated or altered to suit … (sorry that one’s already a fact)!!
….or that the same people doing this are telling you how lucky you are to live in a democracy, even though they are turning the world into a democracy-free place….and telling us what we really have to fear is those countries and people who don’t have this wonderful democracy.. (LOL!)
(Found it…..🐑!!)
If you look up..right through the clouds and up.. beyond the stratosphere of leadership…the blurry face of …it’s forming…yes its clear now …Ming the merciless!!..no no .. Anal Schwab!
Bye the bye, transnational and global does not included sensible countries like Russia, China, India, Pakistan, all of Africa the Middle East, South America and the like….only us in the so called free world!
Those scoundrels will just not obey!
Oh well, I’ll rule the bits of the world that let me…
lord high emperor…Anal Schwab (and his peg boy, Billy gates)
I have a different view of the BRICS and their expansion/emancipation.
The oligarchs of those countries are in conflict with the western oligarchs, in particular since the weaponisation of the USD based financial system against Western “enemies”.
So all their actions to decouple from the west are about them, as oligarchs of their societies, being able to run their countries as they wish without being threatened by the west.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with improving the lot of their people. They don’t give a shit about their people any more than our oligarchs do. Whenever it looks like they are doing something for us, it is merely the minimum they feel they need to do to keep us pacified at minimal expense to them.
So they have their own wef?
Abdullah Schwab I take it?
Moe-ham-mud Schwab, surely?
I don’t think so. They are getting together only for the purpose of creating financial independence from the USD because they can’t do it individually. But for now at.least I would say that is the extent of their common agenda. Which is not to say they won’t expand it in the future if they think they can benefit from it at the expense of their unwashed masses. As we all know the thirst for power is unquenchable.
Yes + even if he snuffs it, his Son is primed to carry on the Rockefeller servant Kissingers plans ( Ivor Cummings on Delingpod )
Correct & apparently Khant is a member of at least 100 Mayors across the world all pushing this End Game for us “ The Proles “
Ulez only ever a stepping stone towards C40 mayors’ goal (Chair: S Khan) of pay per mile for all, including cyclists, scooterists and pedestrians. Book your journey on smartphone, AI assesses your eligibility to travel based on proposed time/distance/mode of travel, grants permission or not based on your carbon credit score, deducts charge automatically from your bank, tracks your journey via GPS and camera surveillance. Planet saved. Kerching!
…and Tories packed to the gunwhales with ‘true believers’, so expect great show of “nothing we can do, alas…”
It’s a supranational policy of implementing Agenda30 via the C40 cities, of which London is one. London is part of the Steering Committee – Khan isn’t just implementing this, he’s part of the driving force behind it.
Have a shufty at the website to see just how nefarious this is & where the first cities in the world are to implement this tyranny.
https://www.c40.org/
Instead of regurgitating Daily Mail articles with misleading information about labour policies, the DS should shed a light on this.
It’s fucking amazing. I’m leaving the word uncensored because I’m completely stunned.
This is like another WEF, but with actual voted representatives creating their own global fiefdom together with corporations.
Absolutely stunning.
This is the reality of the UN’s Agenda21 & Agenda30.
Your reaction is similar to mine when I found out about this.
It’s all part & parcel of the same nefarious criminal class hiding in plain sight – transferring assets from the poorest to the wealthiest all for the greater good.
Once you see this, you really cannot unsee it.
Oops, another conspiracy “theory” coming true.
Morning Marcus🙂…. I concur.
Top of the morning to you too sir
I read a few years back that Smart motorways were going to be Toll Roads ! It’s not like we haven’t been told what to expect by uncle Klaus , as for Khant he’s just a narcissistic messenger put in place to facilitate WEF agendas !
Let’s face it , there’s no way he’s carrying out all these policy’s on his own ! NO WAY 😵💫
Kahn needs to have his house, entire street and local area blocked with vans, goods vehicles and tractors until he drops everyone of his ‘green’ scams.
People need to get French and organise.
Requiring ‘local council support’ would be no safeguard if you have a Labour one like Lambeth (where I live)!
I think ULEZ should be targeted exclusively at lesbians
The big question to Susan Hall and others, who ‘pledge to cancel ULEZ if they’re elected in place of Khan’ is, OK, you’ll cancel ULEZ but will you also immediately remove all the cameras? I suspect the answer will be a lot of mumbled coughing behind hands