In the most recent attack against Sadiq Khan’s contentious plan, an anti-ULEZ protester used a power tool to destroy a camera and traffic light.
The group, known as ‘Blade Runners’, opted for their own version of justice this weekend by felling another ULEZ camera using power tools, including a saw.
The scenes took place during a protest in Southwark, South London, with the group taking out a set of lights at a four-way junction.
As the group filmed their actions, loud horns could be heard in celebration as protestors stood on an island in the middle of the road carrying placards.
Video footage shows the moment that the group fell the lights with a power saw easily cutting through the tubing.
Moments later, the lights come crashing to the ground as the man filming the chaos narrates the ongoing celebrations.
He sarcastically says: ‘The lights have fallen over here, folks, the lights have fallen over, oh dear, oh deary me.
‘What has happened here, oh no, oh no – the lights have fallen over here.’
Whilst the man narrates over the latest felling of traffic lights by the group, traffic begins to spew into the middle of the four lanes as there is no longer a traffic light to instruct motorists.
This excites the man who exclaims: ‘Oh look, the lights have gone out and all the traffic is flowing through here again. We’ve got the traffic running freely here.’
The guy talks about how his organisation has once again blocked ULEZ, the £12.50 fee that Londoners pay to drive their vehicles into specified areas of the city, as several cars zoom by.
He gleefully continues: ‘Oh no ULEZ, no lights, no nothing, have some of that.’
The man then bursts into exaggerated laughter before adding: ‘Carnage at the circus, come on the lights are down, they’ve just fallen over here.’
The scenes were shared to social media in a post with the caption: ‘What do you think – a worthy case in the face of tyranny or just a bunch of vandals?’
Social media users expressed varying opinions about the incident in thousands of comments and over 37,000 likes on the post.
One said: ‘Fair play to them, it’s a complete scam that does nothing.’
Another added: ‘When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.’
A third replied: ‘They are common criminals.’
Another commented: ‘Modern-day Robin Hood with a band of merry men.’
Following Sadiq Khan’s historic victory last month, The Blade Runners went on an enraged rampage throughout the city, spray painting cameras, chopping poles in two, and setting them on fire in one village.
Spy cameras were toppled from Ickenham and Northwood in Hillingdon and Feltham and Hounslow in west London, to the suburban village Yiewsley on the outskirts of London.
People already pay through the nose just to own a car as it is, let alone drive them. They shouldn’t be expected to pay more.
ULEZ was not wanted by the people, but Sadiq Khan enforced it upon them, so there is no way I will condemn these people.
Sadiq Khan has driven white working-class people out of London. Now they have to drive into London for work while Sadiq Khan and his ilk work from home and when they do go into the office they seem to be charging the cost to us taxpayers’.
Some may argue that these individuals can go by rail to London, but do we really think that an electrician, plumber, or other tradesperson can travel by bus, train, or tube to London?
If we don’t oppose it, we doze it!
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 