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Khan's decision to block cars for Ukraine scheme 'gobsmacking'

Dec 15, 2023 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    85% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : If they instead keep their non-compliant vehicles - most diesel cars registered before September 2015 and petrol cars registered before January 2006 - they must pay a daily charge of £12.50.
48% : "Sources close to Ms Hall said that if she became mayor she would seek to change the law so that Ukraine could receive the vehicles.Richard Lofthouse, who works with Car for Ukraine, a volunteer initiative that delivers 4x4s and trucks to the front line, said Mr Khan had shown a "lack of political courage"."Presumably it's no bad thing and no 'disbenefit' for Londoners to actually show solidarity with another free state fighting tyranny, rather than only line the greedy pockets of private scrapyard merchants who are receiving thousands of perfectly good cars as the result of the scrappage scheme subsidy," he said.
45% : "A City Hall spokesman said that "altering the Ulez scheme for the purposes of exporting vehicles to Ukraine is not possible within the current limits of the GLA Act".
40% : "In fact, the scheme would encourage more owners to participate and would likely result in a larger number of non-compliant vehicles being removed from London's roads.

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