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Who tf is still voting for them? Who are these people?
At least in Uxbridge, single issue voters seem to have won it for them
People who are upset with Sadiq Kahn for the Ultra Low Emission Zone in London, despite the fact that their former MP Johnson actually kicked it off...
He (Boris) is to blame for so many things. ~~Fickle~~ willfully ignorant voters can't see past today's headlines.
I actually don't really think it's a terrible idea, no matter where it came from. Air quality in London is way better than it used to be, but still not good enough.
I know it's mostly from the tube, but I always think of the black bogeys I'd get whenever I visited London as a child. My parents told me about how bad the smog was when they lived there in the 60s and 70s.
Oops! I meant Boris!
Will edit to reflect that.
The air is cleaner, and there's less traffic. Underground was terrible when I was a kidd.
No worries, I guessed that's what you meant.
I was referring to how ULEZ was initially announced by Boris in 2015. Boris is awful, but that doesn't mean every idea he had was awful.
No, I think the bikes were a good idea.
The bikes were actually Ken Livingstone's idea...
Were they? So boris nicked them as well? Shouldnt be surreally.
I remember my eyes watering on a warm day in London due to the pollution and the general stink of the pollution (during the summer a temperature inversion that keeps it capped in will worsen it). I recently visited London during a hot spell and it was remarkable how pleasant the air was in central London. The ULEZ and congestion charges have made London such a better place to be.
They deserve everything crappy that happens to them.
Unfortunately we cop it as well 😒
Lots of people, just not the ones who post online in the same places as you. Posh people, rural people, and old people all love them, and they probably make up a higher percentage of Tory voters than just the ill-informed and racist.
Gammons.
I'm suspicious at this point. No proof, but known-to-be corrupt and dishonest government rigging elections seems like an increasingly simpler Occam's razor explanation for apparently remaining tory support.
Believe me, those voters exist.
I don't know any, I even know some rich people who used to vote tory who don't any more. I know a lot of people who tell me they exist but that they are just "shy".
I'm not saying it's true that the elections are rigged, they probably aren't, but I don't think it's unreasonable to question it knowing the character and form of the government.
I know some, they aren't all rich, some of them actually work for a living believe it or not.