I prefer to say they ‘barely clung onto a previously pretty safe seat whilst using a wedge issue as a bludgeon to beat the opposition’.
If it was a Tory mayor pushing it they’d have got absolutely fucking obliterated.
They won a by-election by opposing the ULEZ expansion, so now he thinks that reversing any policy which might upset car drivers is a general election winning policy.
I prefer to say they ‘barely clung onto a previously pretty safe seat whilst using a wedge issue as a bludgeon to beat the opposition’.
If it was a Tory mayor pushing it they’d have got absolutely fucking obliterated.
It was Boris who introduced the idea of ULEZ and the Tory Party who endorsed it. It was their policy to begin with!
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Sadly, he’s probably right.