'You can afford it' | LBC callers debate ULEZ

[@Kiwi-vs2hm]

The quality of life in the UK is going lower and lower every month

[@booth2710]

unless you are an il leg al

[@s.a.y4117]

​@@booth2710 hahahha so true They get all the perks

[@s.a.y4117]

Because some people got scammed of "climate change" Now, they have reasons to tax and tax and tax

[@gerardburton1081]

With all of this high ULEZ charges, high rents and low wages will make the average worker's income seem very low. So these workers will leave Blighty to go back to their countries where they might bring their British colleagues with them.

[@thewizardsofthezoo5376]

@@gerardburton1081 There is a lack of builders everywhere in hot countries with great seasides and plenty of house to renovate and flip.

[@ls7143]

When my grandad was alive he said" the only thing there not taxing us for yet is the air that we breath but dont worry son they are working on it" and here it is ULEZ

[@shinebright9026]

💯

[@georgechecker4941]

Your grandad was spot on.

[@gitanonumero1983]

Its not a tax on air though.... 😂🤦‍♂

[@ls7143]

@@gitanonumero1983 your missing the point my friend. What he meant was they would one day find a way to tax the air we breath either directly or indirectly hence his words 'dont worry son they are working on it'. Just to point something out they say there are 4k deaths per annum due to poor air quality. This is factually incorrect and the only recorded death is.........wait for it............1 you can fact check it you like.

[@gitanonumero1983]

@@ls7143 Yeah, its still not a tax on air. 😂Only non compliant vehicles have to pay the charge and only if they enter ULEZ areas. Do you agree/disagree that; 1) NOx and other toxic gases that come out of vehicles and accumulate in congested areas are toxic to humans and can lead to respiratory diseases and heart diseases and premature death? What is it you disagree with Imperial College of London and The British Heart foundation? 2) Older vehicles have less emissions restrictions (dpf's, egr's, Start/Stop, AdBlue, catalytics', worse quality of combustion etc etc) and therefore attempting to restrict these older vehicles will lead to less toxic gases accumulating in congested areas? This is like the tobacco argument all over again, on one side you have the usual headbangers and on the other a policy that with time will improve the air quality and health of people who live in traffic busy city centres...

[@timmarsh2882]

So if you pay 12 pounds you are permitted to pollute the air. So yes it's about money

[@tyriq7328]

So it's that the issue we can drive them freely if we just pay the 12 pound a day?

[@Dave-nq6uy]

​@@tyriq7328yep that's right

[@jerry4580]

Came to London in 1980 the air was filthy back then but its improved immensely since then trucks and cars are very clean nowdays this is definitely about money

[@davidbrown2571]

It's always about money.

[@davidreynolds2183]

That was around the time they banned leaded fuel..........coincidence.........no.

[@catlerbatty]

Bro has an air pollution sensor instead of a nose. Thanks for your non feedback about bad air.

[@marcusherts9345]

If it wasn’t about raising money…you wouldn’t be able to pay money to drive into the zone & pollute, It would just be banned full stop..

[@angelahayes24]

Anti ULEZ protest,18/3,Trafalgar Square,12 noon

[@QuattroBajeena]

We need to start destroying the ULEZ cameras

[@Zultra2]

nothing like people thinking they are above the law because something annoys them

[@mansendwish]

@@Zultra2 we are above the law of tyrants, wouldn't it be great if the government were afraid of us?

[@tyriq7328]

It's been happening around the city

[@AdissapointedSonic]

@@Zultra2until it affects you

[@ianhill4585]

​@@Zultra2Nothing like people deciding things for other people ,because they think they can ---- ,unopposed .

[@tuttuts560]

Loved the answer at 3:40 cos it's exactly what I've been saying. How does paying £12.50 automatically make the air cleaner?

[@paulwilliams5013]

......trolleybuses might help in central London... if things are so bad.

[@shinebright9026]

🤔😂💯

[@susancurtis1651]

@@paulwilliams5013 Lol, 😂 they have not long been moth balled here where I live. To be fair, I loved them, they were so reliable. They were the only transport to keep going up hill in snowy bad weather. They ran to town and back every 2 mins with sparks a flying overhead but the fares were cheap and we were all sorry to see them go.

[@gitanonumero1983]

Because it will force people to use other means of transport. Think of it like the 5pence on plastic bags... people will use them less. And with time non compliant cars will have been phased out.

[@susancurtis1651]

@@gitanonumero1983 Well firstly it is not 5p though is it ? Secondly you have to have other cheap affordable, continual, reliable and wheelchair accessible transport services in place first, which they aren’t. Thirdly the transport would have to run 24 hours a day for evening and night shift workers etc. what about doctors and nurses are they exempt ? How about take away delivery drivers, unmarked Police cars ? How about wholesale delivery vehicles to the fruit and vegetable markets or town centre shops, taxis etc., the list goes on and on ?

[@shortfattoad7317]

Traders should just refuse to go into the ULEZ, then let Kahn sort of the mess.

[@mosheridan7016]

Buyers strike for 1 day

[@jfro5867]

It’s about money and keeping the poorer people off the roads and out of their own cars. Rich can just carry on as if nothing has changed. Khan is a power maniac.

[@sebastianzhikov8842]

Sadly, we can see the effects that this terrible strategy has had on the UK as each day goes by. weighed down by bureaucracy and tariffs, with a GDP that is lower now than it was before the pandemic, while Italy and the other G7 members have higher GDPs. Due to the decreasing GDP, we are forced to borrow since we do not have enough money to get by in the world. While there are wealthy people in the UK, the majority of us are poor and have recently become further impoverished. How can we increase our income during the quantitative adjustment? I can't allow my £600,000 in labor-intensive savings to disappear.

[@MIchaelGuzman737]

That is commonplace. The issue is that that sector will be most negatively impacted by the growing worker shortage. Fundamentally, inexpensive rent and labor are the main factors that make the restaurant business sustainable. We currently possess neither.

[@svengrot7943]

Well, the best athletes and professionals have access to exclusive data and information that is not made available to the general public. Knowing the tactics to employ at this time is one thing; having the knowledge necessary to put them into successful practice is quite another.

[@baileymclean8186]

@@svengrot7943 Yes, Fiduciary-counselors have access to proprietary information and data sources that are not made available to the general public. In just Q3 of 2022, with the help of my fiduciary-counselor "JILL MARIE CARROLL," I made almost £260,000 in raw earnings. Do I make sales? Definitely not. I'm going to take a back seat and watch how everything develops.

[@sebastianzhikov8842]

@@baileymclean8186 How can I touch base with Jill Marie? what are her services like? is she verifiable? do you think she can help me, I live in Scotland.

[@baileymclean8186]

@@sebastianzhikov8842 She is well-known in her industry; you may have heard of her before I did thanks to a Newsweek article. You can look her up online.

[@shaunhw]

Tradespeople should simply refuse to service the ULEZ areas, and let those affected protest to those responsible for this tyranny, or ask them to come out and fix their stuff, in their electric cars!

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

Remind me again why a tradesperson couldnt come to fix with a electric car/van?

[@shaunhw]

@@KeVIn-pm7pu Because of their cost, and the fact that they don't have one and simply can't afford one. Tradespeople aren't really paid all that much.

[@tristancropley4630]

If ulez was about clean air and saving lives then the daily charge would be £1000 a day this is a tax by the mayor

[@tyriq7328]

So if we pay 12 pound a day then you can drive around freely

[@robindumpleton3742]

Should have DVSA mobile testing age old TFL buses, if they fail, square wheel them on the spot

[@thewizardsofthezoo5376]

Yeah don't give them ideas.

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

​@@robindumpleton3742they should replaced those. However you can argue that one bus is a lot cleaner than each occupant driving his car to the same places

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

Thats Not how "slowly fading out works"

[@SaguarosPlants]

Nice to see you just put two angry people against eachother to argue on your show Nick, real great journalism. Served no purpose.

[@capuchinseven]

Comical isn't it, nothing accomplished.

[@philhahn]

Its talkback radio, not journalism.

[@stephenmurray2851]

@@capuchinseven I would disagree. Quite often you learn from hearing this sort of thing. The man on the ground instead of politicians who dont live the experience.

[@georgechecker4941]

Get rid of the troublemaker Khan.

[@paultaylor7082]

A plumber can fit pipes and fixtures, such as toilets, sink, pipes, waste pipes etc which are to transfer water, but not work with gas. Heating engineers can do all of those, plus they're qualified to work on gas fired appliances, which have very restrictive safety laws. Hence that's why a heating engineer/gas fitter is on a higher pay rate than a basic plumber..

[@mahdi_ali110]

My dad used to tell me don't trust and don't be friend of people who suddenly become rich or suddenly promoted to a position. They want to punish others rather than helping. Mayer of London is one of them....👎

[@shinebright9026]

💯

[@suzyqualcast6269]

He's a jaksta skin wannabe with a chocolate chip on his back.

[@prawnk1ng]

The first caller said he’s done plumbing before but called out a plumber. 😂

[@booth2710]

yeah and he said to the other caller 'you're self employed' when twice he told him he worked for a company

[@paulineashcroft1485]

First caller just talked and didn't listen, therefore didn't learn and probably didn't want to.

[@Aindriuh]

He didn't call out a plumber, he called out a heating engineer who is gas certified. A plumber cannot work on gas lines.

[@razvanursache9493]

And to top it off, the borough of Newham is charging it's residents for parking permits based on the vehicle's emissions. I've just realised that I've only used my car twice this month, and it was outside of the borough. The rest of the time my car stays parked and off, whilst others from elsewhere can drive in the entire borough without having to pay. So why do the residents of Newham have to pay based on emissions when they keep their engines off?

[@prawnk1ng]

Absolute rip off I thought that’s what they are paying tenant ULEZ for.

[@louloubarneymcgroo]

Barking and Dagenham charge by car emissions too for their resident parking

[@TheRealLagatha]

I grew up in Newham, they are criminals 😳

[@robindumpleton3742]

The age old cry of the overlords. Because they can 😁

[@acidtechno]

I UPGRADED TO EURO 5 - NOW IT IS TAXED - BECAUSE HE WANTS TO TAX US ALL!! - NO MARKET FOR EURO 5 WELL DONE Sadiq Khan - THIS IS NOT GREEN

[@billcooper4926]

It’s tax deductible but only saves us 20% , so the £12.50 still cost us £10.00 we don’t get back the full £12.50 🤷‍♂️

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

So rise the costs. And or swap the car. "Electric van cant handle the distance" - oh Please. Literally can be recharged at some customer (just deduct the cost of that) or get a bigger battery i doubt they drive more than 300 miles a working day.

[@lornahay8585]

Petition to sack the mayor what are the British people waiting for.

[@franklingoodwin]

We're waiting for you to stop crying

[@johnsidwell2241]

The mayor will not be sacked even if the entire population of London signed it,however if voters got off of their backsides they could vote him out at the next mayoral election

[@barriewilliams4526]

I've had flip plates on my van for three years now, & they work a treat. At a push of a button in the cab they change from the proper reg number to F OFF. Never had a ticket of any description since I fitted them😉

[@collincameronviaepicplumbi7443]

I'm a gas engineer/plumber Epic Plumbing Heating & Gas Ltd. I cannot ofset parking fines & even though I drive a compliant diesel van I have to pay a premium to park.... for argument sake parking zones run by private companies like Ringo charge a premium to park! Islington charged me an additional £5.10ph on top of the £5ph to park calling it a fuel charge? So I am being penalised for having a compliant vehicle & what does not make sense is I can drive around Islington all day with my engine running for free because I'm Ulez compliant but I have to pay a penalty to park with my engine off....its nothing but a tax!

[@victorjames7]

The government shouldn't class citizens who legally purchased a non-compliant vehicle before 2018 as criminals, who'll soon face a fine for their noncompliance to an allegedly fraudulent scam (ULEZ).

[@richardashworth400]

The government has nothing to do with it. This is the mayor's office

[@HdHd-hp6qz]

Just don’t pay the charge. This is all by consent. If we all don’t pay the fine they’ll be nothing they can do about it.

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

Sure there are. If you have enough fines they can just take your car

[@HdHd-hp6qz]

@ KeVIn-pm7pu Well if you have a car of value like a new plate Mercedes or a vehicle of that type. Then yes you do run the risk of them towing your car away. However if you keep it in a garage they can’t force entry into your garage to retrieve it. Everything is by consent. It’s a civil matter not a criminal one. Also regarding work vehicles ie vans and trucks. By law an enforcement company can not deprive a person the right to earn a living. So it’s illegal for them to clamp or tow these type of vehicles.

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

@@HdHd-hp6qz But if you keep your car in your garage you cant use it to drive can you? next police stop after they rang your plate and you had a car. doesnt matter how much it is worth. they can how ever put hands of your other assets. freeze your bank account. of course that would take some time. but you can be sure that they wont just drop it.

[@HdHd-hp6qz]

@@KeVIn-pm7pu You’re completely wrong. They can’t freeze your assets over parking tickets because it’s a civil matter not a criminal matter. The parking company is claiming that you owe them money which you can dispute. The police can’t get involved other than to kept the peace.

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

@@HdHd-hp6qz we are not talking about a private company are we? we are talking about the government demanding this money.

[@awesomfog345]

Nick Ferrari doing what he does best and thrives at: dividing the working class

[@richardashworth400]

Melt. Cry elsewhere

[@edricaldones9639]

Is Nick the Tucker Carlson of British radio?

[@sovelissskirata8105]

Jesse Waters.🤔 I'm sure the Tucker title is taken by someone at the Sun or Daily Mail. He's not the craziest host by far, just arguably the craziest on LBC.

[@marksykes5434]

@@sovelissskirata8105 He’s a proper turncoat for sure , he must be dizzy he’s changed his direction so often !

[@khoyrulislam]

He's worse

[@philipprice171]

Ferrari couldn't tie Tucker's shoe laces. Remember what Ferrari wanted to happen to unvaxxed people -- fine them ever increasing amounts each month until they take the poke or go bankrupt. He's gone all quiet about it now but I won't forget.

[@dayzoflot2022]

Just do the maths: Congestion charge ( £15)+ ULEZ (£12.5) + Parking [Your Parking Space™] (£12.5)= £40 + Weekly petrol cost = £50 £40*5 (+£50)= £250. Therefore, it cost £250 a week to drive one's car. In other words, half or three quarters of weekly wages. On top of that, the cost of living crises, plus energy crises, plus increase in flat rentals, plus in increase in community charge. So yeah, now you know why 'Nightmare' Sadiq Khan should be kicked out of London City Hall

[@nauxsi]

It gets better...... Tax thresholds are frozen until 2027.... so more people will fall into a higher tax rate.

[@prawnk1ng]

Havering and Bromley have the cleanest air in London. Why do they need the ULEZ charge?

[@long_view]

The first caller is clearly a Khan stooge.

[@gHGhej]

'Cannot carry my pipes and tools on the underground' - fair point 'Or because I will be mugged or murdered' - oh you lost me lol

[@EskiLdn]

Why? tools are very expensive, hes absolutely at risk of being mugged and attacked if he has to carry his tools around london everyday

[@gHGhej]

@@EskiLdn His job is to enter stranger's homes.... but yes let's focus on a tiny risk he will be murdered for a drill. 🙄

[@billpugh58]

@@EskiLdn move to somewhere safe in the eu mate!

[@EskiLdn]

@@gHGhej are you thick? He is far safer entering a strangers home than having to carry tools on TFL daily. Im not sure if you live in london or the real world for that matter but people get mugged daily on public transport, even at knife point.

[@gHGhej]

@@EskiLdn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂 You have never done any kind of lone working before if that is your take. If you like to proved any stats for this 'claim' you pulled out your bottom, would be useful, then TRUST ME BRO!! BTW I am a Londoner and only been shot at 3 times going to get milk 😆

[@kubeck]

Nothing I love more than people that can’t do the work telling me I make to much when they need my skills !

[@Richie-vu4we]

My friends cousin lives in Oxford and he says its a nightmare so other councils are doing this madness. Like the Hunger Games film. Everyones is having trouble to get contractors to be-intreated in working. They had a leak and had a nightmare trying to get a plumber. It cost them so much to sort the problem out. You can’t run a city, town or city by push bikes only or horse and cart. The more the councils TFL/Mayor of London screws the roads up the more population goes up. Scoot Traffic light system he runs. Thats why more traffic lights have gone in. More Roundabouts with traffic lights in. Used to one or the other. If these vehicles were all were blowing fresh flowers out the exhaust they tax that too as TFL and the mayor is to then charge you per mile and how long you are in the zone. Hence the 20mph zones. The longer you are on the road the more you pay. Parts of London are £11.80 per hr to park for a builder plus congestion charge at £15. Its not the builder who making that. Plus when we put that charge on the Tax man says we have to add 20% vat on top as we are charging for part of out service. Councils and TFL and the Tax only profit from this madness. They should be looking to balance their books better and not get the public to pay for this again. The boroughs of Greater London should start to pull out of London and go back into Surrey, Middx, Essex, Kent etc. Then TFL would not roll out there plans on them

[@shinebright9026]

💯

[@ianhill4585]

Imagine having a "forbidden zone", the unofficial slogan being, "Stop!! Do not go past this point, or you will be MORE ripped off than usual".

[@Richie-vu4we]

@@ianhill4585 Thing that will be when your new smart on line car and app tracks you per mile and time on the road from A- B through those 20mph Zones. Or you enter a zone and get taken out by a depleted uranium shell from the RPG mounted on the side of a ULEZ camera

[@spaghettieast]

This is bottom of the barrel journalism.

[@mahmed4581]

We want freedom from ULEZ🙏 Vote for freedom party👌💯

[@gregsmith7821]

I can't beleive you can get a builder in London for a £100 day rate! That guy will not go out of business if he puts it up to £112.50.🤣

[@gerardburton1081]

You might get a labourer for £100 a day and a skilled tradesman for £200 a day. A builder/ labourer will charge an extra £20 a day to pay for the ULEZ charge

[@Richie-vu4we]

Be something if councils starting pulling out of Greater London and put themselves back into Kent & Surrey etc. That would send a message too TFL & the Mayor and to Government. Also loose them money which their idea is first is to make money and he is in so much debit

[@damianleah6744]

I just love how arrogant these people decide other people can afford new pernicious charges.

[@jzilla1234]

As arrogant as not paying your taxes

[@damianleah6744]

@@jzilla1234 that is another topic

[@fricozoid1]

As Tories like to say, if they don't get paid enough they could always just get a better job 😆

[@SlowhandGreg]

It's been ongoing since 2016 and meeting the standards isn't hard

[@Speedkam]

People who think they can continue to poison other people for free are leaches

[@deanjames2476]

The children will all go to school hungry because mum has to pay £60 a week to drive them to school well done mr khan

[@bepitan]

in her suv.

[@deanjames2476]

@bepitan nah that will be mrs Khan in her husbands 4 litre gas guzzling range rover

[@paulkazjack]

We should have a referendum on ulez.

[@franklingoodwin]

A referendum for something that's already happening? Are you feeling OK? 🤦

[@Exploring_beautiful_world]

Sounds labour broadcast honestly. Emissions standards have really improved if he was going to ban older euro 4 vehicles makes sense but euro 5 and 6 have minimum difference and only difference is add blue so they're deliberately not allowing conversion of euro 5 to euro 6 because they get huge amount of taxes. Addblue is just sprayed in the exhaust and it reduces the NO emissions. If they were honest they were allowing it for euro 5 to convert. I work in automotive industry and exactly in this branch. I am not a politician or climate activist without knowledge. Commission matters.

[@bepitan]

just add the 12 pound on top of the bill...this is a charge that every tradesman has to deal with so it remains a level playing field and the home owner who needs the work done will have to absorb the extra overhead...simples.

[@sdsfulham]

I'm employed, but I have to use my own 2010 transit which isn't ulez compliant. I can't afford to buy a new van as I have rent to pay and 2 young children to provide for

[@mickymalibu]

We grew up with coal fires , old diesel and petrol cars, didn’t do us any harm, vehicles nowadays are vastly cleaner emissions wise , it’s all about money

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

Any Medical study proves you wrong.

[@mickymalibu]

@@KeVIn-pm7pu I don't think so

[@michaelperkins5746]

Can anyone please tell me when khan travelled around on public transport for all his meetings

[@reececollison5101]

Never but he gets ferried around in his £400k gas guzzling Range Rover though!!

[@MrDomestical]

All the time. That Range Rover was paid for with public monies...

[@dav3bassman]

Just stick the £12.50 on to the consumer bill. It's less than the Liz Truss tax. Or maybe consider leaving London; it's not a place for the working class after 13 years of Tories.

[@chrisdickens4268]

Quiet you! This isn't the place for reasonable points. There are attempts to deal with long term systemic problems that we need to moan about with zero thought!

[@joshhutchinson9356]

If you are a self employed driver you won’t be price competitive to someone who is ulez compliant! Think about it. Jesus

[@dav3bassman]

@@joshhutchinson9356 ahh yeah I see your point there. London just isn't the place to be for poor people then :/ what a sad state of affairs.

[@WhateverMan35]

Typically builders and plumbers need to make more than one visit. One of those visit would be to evaluate and get an estimation (which typically doesn't cost anything). So you are looking at £50+ to the bill.

[@paulhayes2593]

The last chap almost nailed it . Tell the potential customer you’d love to come and do the job but the new ulez charge makes it prohibitively costly. Ask can they pay the charge or alternatively if they can’t , can you ask them to make sure to let people know that this charge is making it very difficult to secure services in the area. We all deserve cleaner air but there’s fairer ways than this to get it done . There’s an EU fund for such…. Oh wait 😅

[@colinwiseman]

"I'm not voting Labour because of Sadiq Khan..." eh... He's not the Labour party. You'd rather have the Tories?

[@1gerard47]

?

[@colinwiseman]

@@1gerard47 one of the folks in the video said they weren't going to vote Labour because of Sadiq Khan. That's a silly thought to not vote for you local MP just because Sadiq Khan is also a member of the Labour party. That's the type of thinking that keeps the Tories in power. 😞

[@johnconnor3865]

This argument works both ways, anyway they didn't say they would vote Tory instead.

[@PumpTheRod]

.............When will the people wake up?........It doesn't matter who you vote for, they are just puppets. The illusion of choice.

[@stevebird7265]

Reform!

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Its the cost of business, if you pollute then you pay, simple. No builder in London is on £100 a day, none of them and what Plumber has a £40 call out? If your costs go up then you have to pass them on and stop crying. Take some responsibility FFS.

[@alanpage3973]

You're moaning about the charges then do the work yourself

[@greamespens1460]

And the person who can I'll afford to hire a tradesman should they continue to live without water or love in an environment of dangerous wiring.

[@marvintpandroid2213]

@@greamespens1460 If all that is stopping you from having your water fixed is a part of a one off £12.50 cost to your plumber then the government has failed.

[@georgef822]

It's got nothing to do with the cost of business lol. A political tax (that doesn't exist until August by the way) isn't a cost of business. How does paying a charge stop the pollution?.

[@marvintpandroid2213]

@@georgef822 Have a think, if you can. If you can avoid the cost by using a vehicle with zero or much lower pollution then what do you think that will encourage people to do?

[@davidt9537]

Everyone should duck tape over there number plate. Everyone will see Everyone doing it as a sign of solidarity and the whole system will crash OR put a sign in side your back window of your car/van saying. "IM NOT PAYING " We have to band together ❤️

[@sparky687]

It's about Money Money Money....

[@crisb3631]

Try working in London and paying all the chargers all these people that think ulez zones need to wake up it’s about control next thing is what comminust country do road blocks every where and you can’t travel at all

[@viramati5831]

once again misuse of the word Plumber. Heating engineers (I am retired) have to take exams every five years, be registered with Gas Safe, have Public Liability insurance and probably will have unvented hot water certificates and all of this costs a lot of money hence the cost of calling out a heating engineer

[@PoppiesAndPride]

HEARTBREAKING OUR DECENT HARD WORKING PEOPLE REDUCED TO THE WORKHOUSE NO 4 STAR HOTELS FOR US FIGHT THIS NOW

[@martinday2815]

The mayor is making London's roads more or less private for those who can afford it.

[@SlowhandGreg]

I looked this up the Euro 6 diesel standard was mandatory for new reg in 2015 so 6our looking at 8 year old and above vehicles being penalised it's not a very high bar

[@fricozoid1]

Well the van drivers who voted Tory CAN afford it, if they go out and get a better paid job. Take their own callous advice they spouted to rail workers and quit whinging like snowflakes.

[@cengiz246]

LBC- you need to highlight how every council is destroying trade across London in the name of the environment ( tax ). Eg plant pots blocking road access, time conditions to access certain roads, one way systems , shortcut routes all blocked off, bus lanes across front of businesses, no parking in front of businesses, ulez, congestion charge, random speed limit changes, diesel tax rates to park, traffic lights on roundabouts etc

[@PumpTheRod]

...............Yes, hard to believe but that is the bigger picture it's been going on for years, destroying small business for the benifit of the corporations.

[@nauxsi]

The future isn't about work. AI will disrupt a lot of things....

[@paulkazjack]

Pay the money then pollute as much as you like.

[@prawnk1ng]

Pull up with an 18 wheeler running coal.

[@d.hughestiling6841]

There’s something people need to understand the more we right of in expenses the less we can borrow for a mortgage

[@MrDomestical]

Exactly

[@DS-cf1zc]

All the tradesman I know who will take any jobs in London, charge over and above - purely because they do not want to navigate the zones explained by the builder, the parking challenges, pay the additional congestion charges and have the inconvenience of having to ensure they have paid any of the charges, or the additional time this all takes to get to a job. As I say in all these comments sections - Khan is ethnically cleansing the working classes from London via taxation, and increasing the costs of doing anything the capital and will only be happy when he has an elitist capital of rich privileged people. He is not from the Labour party I grew up, as is many others who claim to represent Labour.

[@alistairmacrae4870]

Never mind the plebs. Kan has to move around London in his huge Range Rover.

[@momo8200]

Am I missing something, how about charging it on the invoice and have the customer pay.

[@JamesLWilliams-k9x]

That's the golden self employed way of doing business !

[@fricozoid1]

@@JamesLWilliams-k9x as Tories would say, the self-employed tradies probably dodged enough tax to pay for it anyway

[@japfourme381]

It a absolutely must be stopped! It will destroy small business, in the vicinity of London and beyond! The Public will just not be able to afford to go into the town centre’s etc. and what about if you have to travel into these zones to go to work, absolutely ridiculous thing to do, just ripping off the Motorist and destroying the high street shops!!

[@ragingreviews5186]

Stop doing any services in those areas.

[@fricozoid1]

As Tories like to say, if you don't get paid enough you could always just get a better job 😆

[@voodoochile333]

You can't say that to the illegals

[@franklingoodwin]

@@voodoochile333 Here comes the Tory bot. Yawn

[@voodoochile333]

@@franklingoodwin answer my question

[@franklingoodwin]

@@voodoochile333 You didn't ask a question, you made a statement. Those illegals probably understand English better than you do 😂

[@porkscratchings5428]

As the lefties like to say… Don’t work and sponge and moan at the ones who work hard

[@jzilla1234]

This van driver is pretending he can't just claim the charge as a business expense. And how does the guy with the transit van explain van prices in the rest of the country where there is no congestion charge

[@michaelsimpson4400]

Claiming something as a business expense does not make it free. It just can be deducted from taxable profits. So your choices are: 1. If you normally would charge say £50 for a service, increase it to £62.50, a 25% increase in cost, and possible get no business at all 2. Absorb the £12.50 cost and take a 20% hit on you labour. Assuming you make a profit, you benefit from knocking the £12.50 off your profit. Assuming tax at 19% You have saved £2.38 in tax, outlaid £12.50, still Over £10 per ULEZ charge down. Claiming as a "business expense" only marginally mitigates the expense, it doesn't get rid of it.

[@jzilla1234]

@@michaelsimpson4400 you just posted a load of nonsense. Ps. i actually have a degree in accountancy and finance

[@michaelsimpson4400]

@@jzilla1234 Well done, I am a Chartered Accountant (FCA, more than 10 years experience) with a degree in Economics. Think this trumps your degree. Feel free to say which element is nonsense?

[@samprice1302]

He's a sole trader, what would claiming it as a business expense accomplish?

[@jzilla1234]

@@michaelsimpson4400 i would expect you to have also spotted the guy saying he works for a company and earns only £100 a day. And the congestion charge comes out of his own pocket apparently. Which is nonsense this should and would likely be reimbursed by his employer. When this is pointed out by the other caller, he Then also says hes "a sole trader under the company" so he has to pay the cost. again total nonsense the company have to reimburse him. Not a single plumbler/builder works under these terms anyway. Plumbers on average earn £500 to £900 a day in my experience. Builders its about £250 to £450. They are also notorious for not declaring their income properly anyway, but i digress. Secondly you used £50 quid as potential earnings to make the £12.50 look like a bigger slice if the daily take home pay. That is very disingenuous When anyone submits figures like this to my team i launch an investigation into this persons earnings because clearly they are lying.

[@ivorharden]

£120 an hour? This guy is getting ripped off by his plumber.

[@crotchet1586]

LBC causing division with every call...

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

Is this your first time at a call in radio station?

[@crotchet1586]

@@Jonnyonthespot123 Im not at a call in radio station; no where near london at all

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

@@crotchet1586 You can play with words and be a grammar police, or try to understand what the comment said and actually understand the context.

[@crotchet1586]

@@nothereandthereanywhere You mean I can't do both!?

[@James_Doyle83]

That's talk radio actually

[@iacyn]

What does Labour have left to represent the labour except the name? Greediness and robbery are all we can see. Looking forward to the next mayoral elections.

[@robertarthur3711]

Poor people are now skint

[@cathiefahy4987]

18th March Trafalgar square protest

[@tomtom-gi9eo]

"why did you need a plumber then?" 😂

[@wwg1wgabazza536]

I’m a small time painter and decorator who doesn’t have a car. I only do small jobs because I don’t have a car. I’ve been turned away by countless bus drivers for getting on a bus because they won’t allow cans of paint on a bus in case it falls, spills out. How am I supposed to earn my living?

[@WaveyDeem95]

Need to take it to the streets

[@spencermansell754]

The next ULEZ protest is set for the 18th March at Trafalgar Square at 12.00. We have train strikes that day? Can we get the date changed if anyone can reach out to the organisers?

[@barbaratg5230]

Is the govt going to provide each householder a map of the area they live clearly showing the zones in order that the residents can avoid crossing over. I can see a lot more car accidents happening in future. We'll all be too busy reading the signs instead of the road.

[@fionay2014]

But what is sadiq Khan doing with the money generated. Making the roads worse. People are blind. Seriously.

[@PaulStratford-vn8ed]

Using it to pay for all the private property he bought to house the Afghans

[@salehothman449]

Is that speak representative of Khan? There are many kinds of traders men /women with very low turn of income just trying to keep afloat.

[@stephenbagwell8275]

The biggest scandal is the Silvertown Tunnel being built when HS2 to Manchester is being delayed and the construction may cause more disruption because they no longer plan to put it through a tunnel

[@danpan6420]

Carer/Nurse working a night shift. Low pay, can’t afford UKEz compliant car, unsafe to use the public transport as night shift. Khan wants to charge them not £12.50 but £25 as charge is from midnight to midnight. Plus hospital charges £12 per shift for parking the car. Affordable?

[@markscott6414]

Anyone remember the poll-tax riots?….. Well, the little dictator has just imposed more hardship on you, if you can’t afford a newer vehicle, than the poll tax ever promised to.

[@chriss7930]

I run a few trucks have managed to just about afford 2 euro 6. But ifvi have to go into a ulez i just tell the companies im working for its an extra 100 pounds a day.and if its a night job its an extra 200 pounds its a tax on the poor basically, if it was real they would give the people new vehicles

[@MrDomestical]

That is my idea of ulez compliance. If you gave the people inside the ulez zone the opportunity to buy a compliant vehicle at 50% off, then it is then the peoples choice.

[@FiscalWoofer]

Cheapest vans around for Euro 6 he is right 13-15k min for a half decent one, that’s done under 150k. Of course going in daily is very costly, despite being able to deduct it. The cost just has to go to the client. If they have deep pockets then fine if not you are losing trade. Always the bottom of the food chain biggest impact. Reality is the self employed van drivers and trades have zero security if unwell or work drops off, going in daily is totally unviable in Euro 5

[@KeVIn-pm7pu]

I dont understand how you would lose Business by rising the costs by 12.5 £. Usually the costs are much higher anyways

[@FiscalWoofer]

@@KeVIn-pm7puare you self employed? It may look like some are earning tons but the reality is very different, no security, no back to back jobs, all down time is worrying about where the next job might come from. Loads of great builders and trades have made the choice to go employed with much bigger companies, for what looks like a massive drop in pay. But the company covers downtime, sick, NI, tax and book keeping, van, client marketing, client follow up, website, equipment, tool hire, other subs, accountant, insurance, parking, etc. So yes they go from earning £100/hr to £150/day. That tells you how much many self employed actually end up taking home. Costs are sky high and yes the ULEZ is another one that for some will push the cost of service so it just doesn’t make sense for the cost and hassle. :(

[@MartynStokes-l9x]

Hi as a member of the public wot is the point of a MTO for a test on the engine gases? If i can't drive all over the country

[@sh3riff]

If everyone accepted the ULEZ charge and paid it. How do the pollution rates decline?

[@The__Watchmen__]

I have a 2015 diesel car, which is non-compliant with ULEZ. I have driven behind so called 'compliant' petrol cars which pollute far more than my well maintained diesel. A lot of the post-2005 to 2015 'compliant' petrol cars actually pollute a lot more than my diesel, as their engines are older and a lot of them are not well maintained. People are now leaving very efficient diesels and flocking to highly polluting 'compliant' 40 yr old "classic" cars and older polluting petrol cars, just to meet some arbitrary non-sensical rule. I need diesel as I cover nearly 30'000 miles a year, and fuel costs would be astronomical if I switched to petrol. All my vehicle costs, including fuel and ULEZ are covered out of my post-tax pay. This whole ULEZ scheme feels very much like a personal attack. Either the Mayor bans all pre-2016 cars, including petrol and 'classic' cars from the ULEZ zone, to make the penalty fair for all, or he quadruples the current measly ULEZ grant of £2'000 to keep in line with current cost of vehicles, which at the moment for a family car, is about £16'000. If the Mayor and these climate zealots really do care about air pollution they will put their money where their mouth is and pay for the change they so eagerly want to see.

[@devdhaliwal6152]

What a joke this system is.

[@pauldarling1347]

I’m a builder I have a ULEZ compliant van my callout fee is £80 plus parking or other expenses So in islington parking is £13.05 an hour so for a one hour job without parts it’s going to be £93.05 plus vat so that’s £111.66 So if I now need to get parts and navigating LTNs and sitting in traffic caused by everyone being put on the same road that will all be added to your bill as this is my time that has to be paid for so no point moaning at a contractor it’s your local council that has ramp up charges my van is ULEZ compliant but u still get charged a additional surcharge of over £6 every time I park so this is your local authorities doing this if my van is compliant why the charge I’m just passing it on to the customer so customers need to vote the council out to get that changed then there repairs will be cheaper

[@PumpTheRod]

.................Most people are to thick to realise this..........The whole system is crooked/scam.

[@nharwood111]

Ive worked in several places that have had to close because of local government. They change the rules and we loose jobs it never changes.

[@timewilltella39]

Ulez is just another one of them boots Orwell was on about Resist fight back or forever feel those boots stamping on you

[@omfggoogle]

TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST KHAN

[@dontcalltom]

What happens in these areas when the wind blows it all away

[@swoodhall]

Why not introduce this ULEZ charge when electric vehicles are in abundance, affordable and are the majority on the road????????

[@kevinyoung2469]

Charging £12.50 a day on ULEZ is the wrong solution. The most polluting cars, vans and trucks should be removed from the road via stricter emissions checks at MOT. The new emmissions MOT should also apply to all new cars vans and trucks under 3 years old as some of these would not pass due to excess capacity and tampering or illegal modifications. The emissions standard should taper down to the new zero emmissions deadline 2030 when all the polluting vehicles should to be removed from the roads. Rapid charging infrastructure needs to be implemented by the government at an accelerated pace to also meet the new zero emmissions deadline and a generous country wide vehicle scrappage scheme needs to be introduced by the government. It is the government that needs to be pushed into action by ULEZ protesters as they have promoted Net Zero and know the dangers to the country of climate change but they have done very little to practically implement the new technology needed and allocate resources to enable the country to achieve it.

[@marinadegiulio643]

I agree with the plummer I own an electric car I am freelance hairdressing and I am paying more for electric charges than fuel. It's a cash grab if Sadik Khan wanted to clean the air he would stop all vehicles into London

[@georgef822]

Sadiq Khan is in a different world and I don't think he understands how much trouble this will cause for millions - maybe he just doesn't care. The vital point is that if these vehicles are so environmentally harmful then why not just ban them rather than using them as a cash cow?. It's strange how these damaging vehicles suddenly become ok after you've paid the ULEZ fee. They're either harmful or they're not?. Why is it ok to pollute after paying £12.50?. I worked out that if you're driving in to the zone 5 days a week for 52 weeks a year, this will cost people and businesses over £3200 extra a year for one vehicle. That is money people simply haven't got and will put many out of work and out of business. Where do people suddenly find that extra money if they're already struggling?. The people most likely to have an affected vehicle aren't suddenly going to be able to find thousands of pounds to replace their vehicles. And public transport isn't the answer for most people. It's fine if you live in London or a major city centre and have an office job but on the outskirts it's just not practical, especially for people who work irregular or unsociable hours. I for one, hate public transport, everyone is packed in like sardines and I don't feel safe using it at all. The freedom and security having a car allows you is also unmatched and I wouldn't be able to rely on public transport to get me everywhere. For example, a bus to go from my nearest bus stop to the town centre takes 1 hour when I can walk there in about 20 minutes - that is ridiculous.

[@c3bam1]

Exactly! 💯 agree with you. These ignoramus don’t get it, they think people can just simply go out and pay thousands of pounds for a vehicle. Why don’t mr mayor give us an alternative? Mr mayor why don’t you give us something to make our vehicles compliant? No he won’t because this is a tax, simple as!

[@franklingoodwin]

@@c3bam1 Get a car that isn't an old banger then. FFS, if you can afford a car you can afford the ULEZ charge. If the only car you can afford is a banger, maybe consider whether there are better and cheaper alternatives like public transport, ignoramus

[@realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961]

It's because he needs to cover up the mess he's made of TFL

[@franklingoodwin]

@@realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961 He's made a mess of TFL? No he hasn't. The pandemic did that, but I guess that doesn't fit your narrative

[@realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961]

@@franklingoodwin TFL was having major problems with finance and system management years before the pandemic. I guess that doesn’t fit into your narrative

[@Metal05]

It’s not a regular £120 per hour. Do you know hard it is for a self employed engineer to continue getting work in. It’s tough.

[@JohnHemming-Clark]

It may be tax deductible but you still have to earn it.

[@bubblechai3888]

Sadik is out to destroy Labour

[@paultaylor7082]

If he's a builder only earning £100 a day (£25K a year) in London, he must be one of the lowest paid builders in the Capital. That only equates to £12.50 an hour, the Minimum Wage now is nearly £10 am hour.

[@MrDomestical]

That is assuming he does 8 hours a day....come on, he is a builder!

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

I understand the traders aren't happy about it, but surely you would charge the client for this? As of the person that can't walk - I'm aware many people use mobility scooters? I have seen plenty of them around, including on buses, shops and so on. If you can't walk, surely it is better to have this one, than somehow managing to walk to a car and drive to the car park and walk from there again? Once again, I fully understand people are worried about it - but the main question here is "What can you do about it to adjust"?

[@georgef822]

But the point is that it shouldn't exist. Not just that you can "pass it on". There's only so much that can be passed on.

[@JamesLWilliams-k9x]

What tradesmen carries ladders and heavy tools etc on mobility scooters?? 🤣

[@SlowhandGreg]

This has been ongoing since 2016 not much of an excuse not to be compliant

[@Speedkam]

@George F there is also only so much polluting traffic that 10mln city can take. Its fair to charge the biggest polluters rather than remove roads like Amsterdam does

[@joshhutchinson9356]

if someone has to add it on then they are not price competitive to someone who has a ulez van. So it will shut down many businesses. it is shocking as this policy isnt going to make any difference to air quality in outer london. i suggest you read the independent jacobs report on it!

[@user-fw5tr8ht1e]

£12.50 will simply be added onto the customers bill. Simple as that.

[@alexbetts8291]

See how fast urban decay intensifies without maintenance,, a house will fall into its own foundations in 30 years or so

[@Jack-lo1uc]

Air quality on the tube is worse than outside