Hundreds of motorists gather in London's Trafalgar Square to oppose Sadiq Khan's ULEZ expansion scheme before it comes into force later this month. Report by Czubalam. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 It is vital for me to be here today. I am a proud Londoner and I am
00:03 committed to the democratic process. What has happened has been
00:07 utterly undemocratic. Sadiq Khan has had a consultation that he has
00:11 ignored the response of. He bought the ANPR cameras before the
00:15 consultation. He has ignored the respondents and he has also been
00:19 lying about numbers. Imperial College never said 4,000 deaths. The
00:23 main thing is that this is an unnecessary imposition. Ulez is
00:28 unnecessary, it is undemocratic. There are people from all over
00:32 London and outside London that are going to be much worse off. To
00:36 stop this, to stop what is going on, is as simple as that. We have
00:40 been doing this for months and months and months without very
00:44 very little coverage from the media. This has been going on for
00:46 months and months and months. At the moment we are trying to get
00:50 the attention of the government to actually intervene with all
00:52 this because they can do it. We have been chasing MPs, Tory MPs,
00:57 they give up. Labour, we totally give up. They are illogical. We
01:02 have been trying with the Tories to overturn this. So far they have
01:06 done nothing.
01:08 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. That would be great.
01:15 Look at that notch. Notch. There you go. There you go, do an agenda.
01:27 I have got to support all these Londoners that do not want the
01:46 Ulez expansion put in. There are so many people. If you saw my
01:49 emails, they are heartbreaking. I am coming to support people.
01:53 People know if I become mayor in May, I will stop the Ulez
01:57 expansion on day one. This is the sixth demonstration I have been
02:02 on. I really object to the Ulez. The whole thing about control and
02:08 taking our money. I run a singing group in Causton. I have run it
02:13 for 22 years. Now I have been talking to my parents and
02:18 grandparents who attend the session. A third of them have said
02:22 they are going to stop coming once Ulez comes in. Rather than
02:26 paying £7 for the group, they are now going to have to pay £19.50
02:31 to come. It is just not in their budget to do so.
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