Exactly. If one wants to make the point that people are mixing up 15MC with ULEZ and other traffic-restricting measures, sure, any pertinent point of fact is we

Exactly. If one wants to make the point that people are mixing up 15MC with ULEZ and other traffic-restricting measures, sure, any pertinent point of fact is welcome. But instead there's been a fairly transparent attempt to take advantage of a contemporary political moral panic, and go with the lazy option of insinuating that anyone with fairly pedestrian (heh) objections to current council and government policy is a dangerous QAnon alt-right anti-vaccine... whatever other completely unrelated folk devils you want to throw in. Politicians have realized that they can drag the most random topics into the "culture war", declare that disagreeing with them is a "conspiracy theory", and enjoy free repetition of that thought-terminating cliché by allegedly "anti-establishment" journalists desperate to find a new frontier to declare their moral superiority in And for the record, I tend to agree with the majority of the proposals anyway, but I can still object to the extremely bad faith response to locals exercizing their democratic right to question them. And confused at the number of people who will openly say "fuck cars" and explicitly advocate for making driving more difficult (as a primary goal), then claim it's a conspiracy to say they ever supported that