How do you think the ULEZ expansion will effect you?

Given the recent wildfires in Rhodes and Corfu, it is not surprising that politicians seeking solutions to address climate change.

One reader has written in to express his concerns that the ULEZ expansion will lead to further isolation of the elderly from their loved ones leading to tragic consequences.

Do you worry about your elderly relatives? Or perhaps you find yourself in the same situation.

What do you think?

‘ULEZ is not just an attack on motorists but an assault on old people’

ULEZ is not just an attack on motorists but a dangerous assault on old people.

Many of us oldies living in London without a car, rely on family from outside the city to visit us.

But such families are not even being considered by TfL – there is no scrappage scheme, whereby people are compensated for buying a ULEZ-compliant vehicle – for them.

There is no assistance for visiting the old and the infirm.

Many more old people will end up dying from solitude and loneliness than would ever die from pollution. Michael Valentine, Raynes Park

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Al (MetroTalk, Tue) says Labour is making a mistake by following the Conservative Party into making ULEZ a political issue.

This, after its leader, Sir Keir Starmer, blamed the policy for his party failing to take Uxbridge from the Tories in last week’s by-election.

If ULEZ is all about clean air and not about making money for a nearly broke Transport for London, Mayor Sadiq Khan would have banned all offending cars from day one and not just levied a daily charge of £12.50 on those that are the worst polluting.

And with plans supposedly being drawn up for pay-per-mile/minute when every car/lorry does comply, it just proves it’s money Mr Khan is after. Let’s get to May 2024 and vote him out. Brian, London

How sickening that as thousands flee Rhodes and Corfu, as the Greek islands go up in smoke after cooking in heat directly attributable to anthropogenic climate meltdown, we have disgraced Tory councils like Uxbridge celebrating an election win on the back of a campaign criticising the most modest of moves to tackle dangerous emissions – the ULEZ.

Meanwhile, a crass coalition of councils including Uxbridge and Harrow, with no alternatives of their own, have taken their objections to a scheme targeting the most polluting vehicles to the High Court.

What more do we need to know about Tory party policy – putting the rights of Dirty Diesel Man over and above public health. Dave Degen, Watford

The Conservatives’ latest strategy to win the next election is to frame a binary argument that casts Labour as costly green warriors and the Tory party as the anti-green party, saying it will save us all money in these lean times.

The thing is, Labour’s green agenda is extremely well costed and designed to save the consumer money. Its whole green programme has economics at its very heart.
Vanessa, Londoner

We’re already undergoing a mass extinction event and nobody gives a hoot!

For example, the UK granted emergency authorisation for the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on sugerbeet again this year.

It’s banned in the EU for its catastrophic effects on insect populations.

As the late EO Wilson put it, ‘If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.’ Tom Red, East London

Regarding the three recent by-elections, Sir Keir Starmer sang the praises of the candidate in Selby and Ainsty but blamed ULEZ for the loss in Boris Johnson’s old constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

What was his excuse in Somerton and Frome, won by the Lib Dems? John, South Staffordshire

Could the Greek fires have been started deliberately by far-left eco anarchists to create ‘climate change’ headlines? Mike, Surrey

Have you read Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus?

Bizarrely, the list of Shakespeare plays University of Wales Trinity Saint David thought might be ‘too upsetting’ for today’s young people (Metro, Mon) did not include Titus Andronicus (in which the main character unknowingly eats his own children in a pie) or even King Lear, with its graphic depiction of eyes gouged out.

Or, indeed, any number of other plays full of murder and mutilation.

It seems the video-game generation are relaxed about extreme violence, it’s only anything that touches on the issue of gender that might trigger a fit of the vapours! Anne Crocker, Sevenoaks

‘Don’t feel sorry for Nigel Farage – his banking predicament is hardly relatable’

Why do people feel sorry for Nigel Farage having his bank account closed?
Coutts is a posh bank for rich and posh people only.

Why did a man like Nigel want to open a bank account with them? Other banks are just as good.

Coutts’s other posh customers rightly believed that he lowered the tone.

My sister shopped at her local posh and expensive Waitrose supermarket.

I had a look inside and found it was nothing special and that the other shops are just as good or even better.

I asked her jokingly, ‘So, you just want to be seen coming out of posh Waitrose?’ She looked embarrassed and never went there again. Matt, Birmingham

I agree with Glenn Roberts regarding people watching mobile-phone videos in pubs (MetroTalk, Tue).

I am not a pub person but inevitably, I often have to endure loud videos being played in blatant disregard to anyone else on public transport.

What happened to the earphones, or just plain simple consideration for others?
So many times I have almost snapped at these inconsiderate morons.
Lina, Manchester

He who is without sin can cast the first stone

Writing about Rev Wendy Dalrymple and her tattoos, Paul (MetroTalk, Mon) quotes Leviticus 19:28: ‘Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print or tattoo any marks upon you.’

I have no tattoos but my family does.

They offer meaning, comfort and memories and, in my wife’s case, mark the two cancers and three operations in two years and quote Psalm 139.

Biblically, Paul may like to read Isaiah 49:16, where God says: ‘See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands.’ That sounds like a tattoo.

Does the original Hebrew say ‘tattoo’? Perhaps not. It’s a translation.

And finally, if Paul read the whole of Leviticus, he would find more than 70 examples of things you should be punished for that are so silly you can’t take it seriously (mixing the fabrics in cloth, touching pig skin – bad news for cobblers, tailors and rugby players).

Paul might wish to base his faith on the New Testament. Jesus called it a New Covenant for a reason.
Simon, Preston

Paul should realise that the laws in the Old Testament are for observant Jews to follow.

Christians follow a different way – the way of Jesus.

And he should remember that ‘a text without its context becomes a pretext’.
Peter Buckley, Teddington

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