"NO ONE Called For This!" - Julia Hartley-Brewer Blasts ULEZ Scheme Incorrect Fines From Bristol

Bristol council bosses are refusing to pay back £31million in incorrectly worded fines from the city's ULEZ scheme, known as the Clean Air Zone (CAZ).
Bristol City Council's executive director John Smith told councillors that there was no risk of a successful legal challenge and that legal advice had said that the inaccurate wording, which included naming regulations that didn't exist, 'wouldn’t make a difference to the enforcement'.
Julia Hartley-Brewer is joined by campaigner Alan Miller from The Together Declaration fighting back against ULEZ in cities across the UK.
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[@davehunter9342]

What Labour do in cities like London and Bristol they will do in every city and town in whole of U.K.

[@sammvimes1]

Not in Ulster. The SSIRA don't want it and they run Ulster

[@johnlovett5134]

They are slowly taking away our democracy until we have a dictator

[@deanjames2476]

In Bath they charge your parking fees based on how polluting your car is ,so they punish the poor who can't afford electric cars ,the libdem run banes council now want to expand this disgusting tax to the outer regions of the district which we are fighting

[@beefy0978]

It’s all about control. They’re teaching us to obey.

[@bro6568]

Well it is working as the govt source says 80,000 less cars are on the road and 95% of cars that are on the road are ULEZ compliant. I think it’s like seatbelts when they first became a law.. it will be a big fuss for the first few months to a year or so but people will eventually get used to it.

[@jackrussel853]

@@bro6568 Yes its all good until they decide to raise the limits so that only newer vehicles pass the emissions levels, its the poor that suffer not those that can afford to upgrade, even though the air in cities is cleaner now than ever before in recent history, My friend is an mot tester and works in Worcester Park and he was saying that they have lost as much as twenty percent of their business due to the fact that they are now in the new ULEZ zone so it must also have affected many other businesses.

[@thedave7760]

@@bro6568 Its sad but I fear you are correct people will get used to having their freedoms taken away. Like the first comment here says they are teaching us that we can only do what they allow us to do, always for everyone's safety of course.

[@matthewhaddon599]

Councils and mayors should not be allowed to introduce such schemes without a referendum or spend large amounts of money with such.

[@geoffreyhicks53]

Freedom of movement is a basic human right

[@colinpenaluna9268]

Tell me what freedom of movement do we not have

[@geoffreyhicks53]

Try watching the interview again

[@colinpenaluna9268]

@geoffreyhicks53 No you stated Freedom of movement is a human right We are not stopped from going anywhere Can we go to any Country in the EU YES Can we go to any Country in the World YES but some at your own Risk So again you Comment is B/S Doesn't Matter what it states the fact is we do have Freedom of movement

[@SoSimonSays]

no such thing as rights, its a made up human concept, you are free to do whatever you want whenever you want, there just might be consequences to some of your actions

[@geoffreyhicks53]

So the public highway in Britain is now free to use no charge no restrictions, hence the word free, and when you result to insult you lose any credibility

[@stephthomas4031]

Each council in Wales is roughly 280 million in debt. And they still spending money on things we don't want or need. And we haven't been consulted about any thing!! Putting up our C T and expect the people of Wales to just suck it all up!! Unfortunately. The Welsh will do just that whilst moaning about it continuously.

[@tazmaniachill]

It’s money grabbing shite, ask khant, he’s bankrupt London and the cash cow motorists pay for his gross contempt of motorists

[@francesbrown5116]

And his trips to the US for his orders lol

[@nezzam100]

Subtract the fines from your council tax payment.

[@stevethe3060]

What’s crazy about ULEZ /CAZ is that all these vehicles being fined have passed an MOT test at an MOT station where the emission standards are set by the government ,Taxis and other vehicles are tested in most of these cities by the same councils who are fining them for not having the right engines because of the emissions that they themselves have passed as being within the safety guidelines because they meet the government standards ,it’s nuts ,it’s a con ,most of these people have no choice but to pay and struggle or have no job at all,I’m just wondering when the window tax is coming back .

[@wishteria234]

there are problems with the tests also, you can pass in one place and fail in another, this was used in Canada for a while for a cash grab

[@kev2845]

I pay over £300 a year on road tax for my 1.4 astra van because it apparently has slightly higher emissions than a standard vehicle, yet on my 2.5 transit van which is 4 years older I pay £144 a year.. work that out.. Then they try and tax me £9 a day on top of this to drive in Bradford (I live in a BD postcode) but I don't qualify for the exemption because kirklees council (Huddersfield) are my bin collectors which changes to bradford council 5 houses down from me even though I live in Bradford bd12..

[@charlesreynolds7407]

You have made a valid point about vehicles with an mot.

[@davecooper3238]

Passing an MOT doesn’t effect the vehicle’s EURO rating. That EURO rating is what makes a vehicle ULEZ compliant or not. A vehicle could fail a MOT on emissions but it would not affect its EURO rating because that’s fixed

[@stevethe3060]

@@davecooper3238 I get that but if a vehicle passed an MOT at a council run MOT station which passes vehicles emissions based on government safety standards then surely it’s emission safe to use on all roads ,if you took a group of 50 vehicles of the same make and model and euro standard and put them through an MOT I’m pretty sure some would fail but in the case of ulez /caz it’s one size fits all without doing any tests at all because they’re going off manufactures euro standards and as we know if they say a vehicle does 0-60 in 5 seconds depending on the driver it could better that time or be slower same goes for emissions so I’m saying if vehicles are passed at an MOT station we know our emissions meet the gov standards of safety but the ulez/caz go off engine type not emissions of individual vehicles like an MOT station do, if councils and the gov go off euro rating why bother with MOT emissions tests .

[@colinpenaluna9268]

The fact of the matter is LABOUR'S MP Rayner has stated that they will bring it across the UK But its never brought up on any Media

[@TonyMontana33452]

The mainstream media are corrupt and complicit

[@kev2845]

I pay over £300 a year on road tax for my 1.4 astra van because it apparently has slightly higher emissions than a standard vehicle, yet on my 2.5 transit van which is 4 years older I pay £144 a year.. work that out.. Then they try and tax me £9 a day on top of this to drive in Bradford (I live in a BD postcode) but I don't qualify for the exemption because kirklees council (huddersfield) are my bin collectors which changes to bradford council 5 houses down from me even though I still live in Bradford bd12.. its almost laughable

[@carasdawr4752]

Always follow the money...always

[@tommogun3]

This is being implemented to break every council !

[@BigBenn2014]

Bristolians and Londoners will still vote those councils back in. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@markstanton2180]

Klaus and Davos called for it. Our councils. Now do their bidding.

[@DrJams]

Put stickers over the cameras

[@MrNurdiboy]

It''s simple, "they who must be obeyed" don'r want us to have freedom of movement i.e cars, freewill, we are stronger in number and need to start saying NO, or it will not stop, we all need to wake up and stop being so subservient

[@deltadom33]

Most shopping centres such as hemel have still not recovered from covid , There are empty shops

[@francesbrown5116]

The rates carparking charges have destroyed towns . Putting out of town shopping were you need a car to get to brainless .

[@leedavies3629]

Just dont pay ulez what can they do if knowone pays it it will disappear🇬🇧✌

[@โนรีคอกเบิร์น]

COUNCILLOR, I have instructed the local mp to support Andrew Bridgen and various other things but she (laura trott) is on the WEF gravytrain, so of course, she refuses Everything we ask.

[@allantodd2069]

Get khan out, if he remains in power in May we are screwed, all those fines what are they paying for ?? Something sinister I think 🤔

[@TonyMontana33452]

Kick Labour out!! First their idol's (Tony Blair's) illegal war in Iraq. Now their illegal money-grabbing war on motorists!

[@andrewllewellyn6525]

It's like another mortgage on everyone that lives there

[@stuartbutterworth8248]

Putting bollards an blocking roads to keep you off the roads they don't have ulez cameras .. these councils have to much power and run by numptys.

[@jonathan-dough]

At least Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask!

[@bdoubleeb3039]

I’m on the outskirts of ULEZ, bought a brand new Diesel in 2014. It’s a perfectly good car and I refuse to change it. No longer drive into ULEZ. So those businesses inside won’t get my money, nor will TfL.

[@thomasherlihy3135]

WEF orders

[@davecooper3238]

The electorate voted in the person who promised this. That politician really should be praised for keeping his word.

[@kennethmaley2443]

VOTE REFORM UK get your country back.

[@TheRb0675]

I got caught out going to Bristol airport coming in off the M5 and traveling down the A4 under the Clifton bridge. I saw the signs for the clean air zone but as I wasn't going into what I thought was the zone I thought it didn't affect me after my holiday I got caught again coming back 2 weeks later a £138 fine. when I looked at the zone map they have captured a piece of the A4 to catch people I think going to the airport . Please check out the map. Their should be a warning on the M5 gantry sign that airport is via the clean air zone at least

[@HowardKlein1958]

I must say my number plates are getting a bit dirty. Must find a car wash 🖕

[@robinburn4974]

Bristol almost as bad as London

[@peterjones7303]

Remember the long sunny summers of the 60s 70s 80s and 90s the seasons seemed to run like clockwork now its a complete contrast but weve reduced co2 and got nice clean air what went wrong

[@Tricia3499]

Greed!

[@deltadom33]

Its highway robbery as with roads they bring in business that was basic geography With ulez it has higher costs to every item that you buy in the shop

[@Gritto1445]

People should be marching on city halls in protest on mass but for some reason we accept it. Far too supine.

[@penburger]

Bus sir won't this have a negative effect on the working class? The working class? OH you mean the peasants? We don't concern ourselves with them. And that's how laws are made folks

[@Lee.Willcox]

Ask the real question. Why do you need to scounge so much money Sadiq Khan? Thinking about; Many of the major cities and councils around the country, some of which are close to bankruptcy or have been called out as bankrupt, how close is London, under its mayor, to bankruptcy? With the introduction of ULEZ, train fares rise, tube fares rise, and public transport fares rise. Why the need for so much money, Sad IQ Kant? Have you brankreputed London or are you very close to have done so ?

[@TonyMontana33452]

That's why they spent so much of our money on illegally lowering our national speed limit to a kerb-crawling 20mph, blocking off roads and putting up cameras to fine motorists. Thieves the lot of them!

[@mikewhitby2686]

I got a fine from the Bristol ulez scheme even though I live 250 miles away and have never been to Bristol Not even my van in the photo

[@broggiemonstermonster3385]

Its very simple how many of them are there, how many of us are there....count. Lets have them, its going to end badly for them if we do. We do not have to put up with this if we don't want to.

[@patricktracey7424]

i do wish she would ask a question then shut up instead of constantly interrupting her guests.

[@robertwaye803]

The U.K produces 1% of the world’s pollution were as China Russia America and India produces 85% China has opened 40 new coal mines this year so for what reason does are government want net zero in the u.k when we are probably one of the greenest countries in the world.

[@Worldturnedupsidedown]

Co2 is not pollution

[@anthonywilson8998]

Petrol and diesel cars are massively cleaner than years ago. . So overall the air is much better in our cities and towns. Mainly large vehicles are bad. Net zero will not work. ALLFOR nothing. Ask Will Happer CO2 saturationmeans there is no. Emergency and no need for suicidal actions proposed.

[@jaybrox1652]

U CANT DRIVE DOWN THIS ROAD is just a DIRTY way to extract money ilegaly from motorists

[@keithdenton8386]

If the UK sunk tomorrow it would make no difference the the climate whatsoever. We make no difference and our air is clean. It's all about the money honey, or they would ban dirty vans, and cars only in times of high pollution, like they do in France.

[@tonesoft1956]

Its allready been spent on holidays

[@davidmillertemporaryworks]

If ULEZ comes to my city I won't drive there even though I have a tesla

[@Anonymous56657]

I called for it.

[@moem9524]

U dnt scream when the guest agrees with you.

[@jaybrox1652]

Bs bs bs

[@eleannapsylla9103]

Making money motive imo

[@jaybrox1652]

If it effects ordinary working people then the idiots should not vote Labour...hahaha

[@ukmartin2569]

I agree with alot you have to say Julia but there is one thing I don't agree with is your views on Donald Trump .

[@jamesbarbour8400]

Agreed - Trump did a huge amount of good during his time in office, but then the walking vegetable got parachuted into the White House illegally, due to vote rigging and has undone pretty much all the good things that Trump put in place.

[@TonyMontana33452]

How do you think people like DT come to power? America has had enough of being robbed and financially raped by politicians who take their vote for granted.

[@rick9380]

Why don't you stop interrupting people, it's so annoying...

[@jaybrox1652]

Boot stupid Labour out for ever...haha supper morns party

[@silvertongue3003]

So Lez and Ulez isn’t a new set of pronouns? 😂

[@dsds3968]

Is there anything more tedious than ULEZ complainers? Buy a compliant vehicle or don't go into the zone.

[@Blonde_Somnambulist]

Will you buy my new compliant car ?

[@Anonymous56657]

The air is disgusting in London. I will always support ULEZ.

[@wishteria234]

are you rich or indoctrinated? When a trades person has to come to your house they have to charge much more for service, its all about the money.

[@jamesbarbour8400]

Obviously someone who doesn't drive !

[@dangruner5926]

The air has never been better than before you fool...

[@jamesbarbour8400]

@@dangruner5926 totally agree with you - the air quality above ground in London has never been better, thanks to emissions controls on cars and lorries, plus common rail injection, whether in petrol or diesel cars, allows much higher fuel injection pressures, with the result that the fuel is more highly atomised and spread within the combustion chamber. The fuel is more completely burned, with less harmful noxious fumes getting to the catalytic converter (on petrol cars) or the DEF system on diesel cars, lorries, agricultural tractors, not to mention various pieces of construction machinery. Londons' air quality back in Victorian times was absolutely horrendous, and that was long before the advent of motorised transport of any kind in Britain had occurred. Horse drawn wagons, carts and buggies were the order of the day, though I suppose the leftists will try to blame horse farts for the con that is Global Warming ! Total cash grab in both instances, since Sad Dick Khants' TFL budgetary control was/is non existent and this is simply a way to put more money towards London Transport, as well as an excuse to fleece the hard up motorist yet again. Most puzzling of all however, is the 'air quality' (for which read, lack thereof !), on the London Underground system is horrendous, but not Londons' Mayor or any MP have made so much as a peep about that ! Total hypocrites, the lot of them !

[@dianeirvine7624]

They might have to move parliament out of Westminster because of the air quality in the lords . Methane is reaching a high level

[@Anonymous56657]

Khan will get my vote. 100%

[@trevorsomers8344]

Use public transportation

[@francesbrown5116]

Theyve changed the routes and removed buses to make it more difficult .

[@trevorsomers8344]

@@francesbrown5116 buy an electric car

[@Blonde_Somnambulist]

​@@trevorsomers8344with what ? I'm skint.

[@trevorsomers8344]

@@Blonde_Somnambulist work harder. Get a better job. Get a second job. Manage your money better. Finance a car. Take your pick

[@lankyboy90]

@@trevorsomers8344 Ummmm, how about...no! You shouldn't be forced in to debt to buy a car that is 'compliant' with their schemes today. Electric cars are ridiculously expensive and also, you'd be silly to be thinking about buying one now as they're on the verge of a technical leap in to solid state batteries which will render most existing ones obsolete and undesirable! Maybe they're on a low income, working all the hours they can? Why should they be forced to get a second job to afford a car when the one they have is perfectly servicable? It isn't their fault that politicians are going mental.