Agree. The ULEZ is an utter joke. My car is over fifteen years old. It's ULEZ compliant. I can drive it in to Central London for free after 6pm and at weekends

Agree. The ULEZ is an utter joke. My car is over fifteen years old. It's ULEZ compliant. I can drive it in to Central London for free after 6pm and at weekends, because it's not diesel. I don't do it often. I'd be supportive of a serious penalty (50+ quid say). When it's extended to the North and South Circular roads in a few years time; the car will at that point be almost 20 years old, and if it's still going, permitted for free. Oh - but I don't live there! I live further out, so actually none of this would affect me in any case, despite local roads still breaching pollution limits. I wouldn't go quite as far as a blanket ban; I think charges are reasonable (basically to make petrol cars cost about as much as leasing an EV, say, but not forcing up-front massive expenditure). But at the moment we seem to be in this bizarre land in which the only changes that happen are those which don't feasibly affect anyone. Suggesting that someone who can't afford to buy a new car probably shouldn't be driving around London is seen as political suicide.