Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Big Brother gets a few pokes in the eye;
At least 510 Ulez cameras were stolen or vandalised between 1 April and the end of August this year, figures from the Metropolitan Police show.
The force is dedicating a “significant amount” of resources to tackling Ulez camera-related crime, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said.
Two arrests have been made so far, with one person charged and released on bail and the other case discontinued. Sir Mark told LBC there were “other investigations ongoing”.
The ultra-low emission charging zone was expanded on 29 August to include outer London, with cameras installed to enforce it.
Drivers must pay a charge of £12.50 per day to drive a non-compliant vehicle anywhere in the zone under the controversial clean-air plan.
The Met commissioner said of the figures: “Clearly this is quite serious damage it adds up to in terms of property and that is the basis [on which] we judge it.
“So it is getting, I guess, a significant amount of policing resources.”
So this is just a tax to hire more government enforcers.
All laws and all taxes finally are enforced by “Do this or we will kill you.”
Obviously the Yobs need to try harder… throw more sand in the gears of the surveillance state
Absolutely. “At least 510 Ulez cameras were stolen or vandalised between 1 April and the end of August this year, figures from the Metropolitan Police show.”
All that and just one arrest and one dismissal. The message is very clear. Smash more cameras, because they can’t stop you.
Smash them all
“The Met commissioner said of the figures: “Clearly this is quite serious damage it adds up to in terms of property and that is the basis [on which] we judge it.”
Odd they don’t view neighbourhood car break-ins on the same basis. Cumulatively, there is probably more serious and costly damage done during these midnight smash and grabs.
Climate hysteria is the gift that keeps on giving to the Jacobins and Bolsheviks that infest the state. A little push back from the normally compliant Brits is encouraging.
Only 510!! Come on chaps. Stop messing about.
Odd how they don’t mention the cost of the cameras that were paid for with stolen taxpayer funds to begin with. Perhaps they should stop wasting taxpayer dollars on “controversial” (meaning no one wants it except for the POS’s who profit from it) cameras rather than throwing even more of other peoples’ money at maintaining it.
But of course the people never had a say in it to begin with. Until people start torching the cameras with the frontmen for those POS’s tied to them, nothing will change.
Once the puppets fear the people more than they value the small slice they’re given of the funds stolen from them, the system will begin to change in a hurry.
There’s a simple ULEZ solution. More crime on the streets. That will keep people from driving to London. It’s working fantastically in San Francisco, Oakland, and LA … where anyone parking a car on those streets will get their cars damaged and burglarized. So very few people dare drive there anymore.
How about more stabbings on the streets of London? More homeless tents? Those are also great ways to reduce traffic (hence air pollution) in Londonistan.
According to Sadiq Kahn, your old diesel cars are causing such bad pollution in London each year, you are literally killing thousands of people.
You absolute bastards.
However, if you give him 12.50 pounds each time you drive in, the dying people can go eff themselves.
I have yet to hear any U.K. ‘leader’ of any ilk suggesting reversing this policy; the silence about their ridiculous television licence fees funding the British Broadcaster of Communism also appears total…
The political entity that supports banning both grifts would likely do well there…
The main issue on the ULEZ cameras isn’t necessarily the enforcement of emissions violations. The two primary problems are: 1. They were instituted unilaterally without input from any opposing parties (no debate, just application). 2. The information recorded on the ULEZ network is claimed to be for vehicle emissions, but the footage (all of it) is being shared with the police departments even if there are no emissions violations. It’s a covert form of full surveillance without warrant. Even footage of vehicles that pass the emissions test are being held for well over a month by the govt…and permanently by the local police departments.
It is also thought to be an excuse to put in place the infrastructure to charge motorists per mile. They are at an unnecessary density. Keep up the good work; the surveillance state is a servile state. See China.
It certainly is a poke in the eye of Big Brother.
Next they need to cut off his nuts.
Only the rich may drive a car, the rest of you get to ride the covid train, thus the need to inject the great unwashed with gov’t goo.
There are 5.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain. The lads need to smash or disable a hell of a lot more than 500!
Brit hooligans cause more damage at a soccer game ffs!
Convince the Muslims the cameras are an offence against Allah.