Please see below the Merton Conservatives Group motion that will be put to full Council on 1st February.
ULEZ Consultation
Council notes with grave concern that the Mayor of London has led a campaign to disenfranchise Londoners, including our residents in Merton, regarding support for the ULEZ expansion.
The Mayor of London has:
- Repeatedly made false statements to the GLA Assembly and the press about the ULEZ and the consultation;
- Manipulated the consultation and the results by excluding more than 5,200 consultation responses from the results thereby disenfranchising Londoners who do not wish to be hit by the ULEZ tax;
- Broken his promise that the ULEZ expansion would not go ahead if there was significant opposition.
Therefore, Council calls upon the cabinet to:
- Write to the Mayor of London and demand that the ULEZ expansion is immediately halted;
- Refuse to allow the installation of any ULEZ infrastructure;
- Call for a new comprehensive, free, and fair consultation across all of London;
- Support Conservative demands for an immediate investigation into the conduct of the Mayor and support any potential future public inquiry.
Cllr Nick McLean Cllr Eleanor Cox Cllr Michael Paterson
