Sadiq Khan confronted by caller 'left destitute by Ulez'
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2024
- Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, joins James O'Brien in the studio to take calls from LBC listeners. One mother, Sarah, accuses the London Mayor of leaving her in ‘perpetual debt’ because of the Ulez charge, saying it takes up all of her disposable income.
Sarah explains how she's been moved to temporary accommodation and where previously at the end of the month after bills, she had £300-£400 to spend, now every single month her finances are “wiped out" almost straight away because of Ulez fees.
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Khan is amazing, he didn’t listen to a word the lady said, she’s just said she has absolutely no money, is in a overdraft at the bank, can’t feed her child, his answer, is, buy a car with the money you haven’t got. The man is a clown.
He’s ruining our capital city for sure 🤬
Also, blame the Tories.
"Not my fault, Guv"
+1 Also, she said she was ok financially until the ULEZ kicked in so he's to blame
@@0ccam5Raz0r Tories ? The rot set in the moment that Nu Labour came in
Sell the car. Does she need it if working from home?
You can tell by looking at his face that he doesn't give a f**k. 😢😢😢
And that statement sums it up.👍
Did you really expect him to he’s like Sunak out of touch with reality
He's trying to look like he cares, but in reality couldn't give a s.. t. 😠
Plain and simple
It doesn't effect him at all living in a lovely heated home, earning thousands every year ,when was the last time he worried about an energy bill, same as the PM ,,,money no problem
The guy just doesn’t listen, she has no money and he has no answers.
GET HIM OUT - He’s the worst thing which has happened to politics and London.
Not an ounce of understanding OR empathy !!!
Your car HAS PASSED AN MOT INCLUDING EMISSIONS,SO ULEZ SHOULD NOT COME INTO IT ,= NO CHARGE.
She has no money to buy milk yet he’s telling her to go and buy a new car
that man is disgusting and the whole labour too for supporting him.
He don't listen because he is a Muslim help English first
£2000 does not get you a new car that is ULEZ complaint. This guy doesnt have a clue
You do not need to buy a new car 😮
My Mum bought a compliant car for £700.
And Ukraine 🇺🇦 gets all the cars, basically taking from us to give them
@@naeedaafzal3055
Oh but he doesn't give it to them, he obviously sells them
My wife drives a 10 year old car that is ulex compliant. I drive a 8 year old 2 litre car that is also ulex compliant.
So this lady can't afford milk, so the solution is to buy a car. Great advice by the mayor.
He can't understand the plight of common people.
If he had a brain he’d be dangerous
@adriandavis9790 no he is dangerous
Will give same answer for whatever circumstance you find yourself in. He has his agenda to stick to no matter what!
She has a car, but obviously cannot afford a ULEZ compliant car even with 'help' from the scrap scheme. She is already into her overdraft, but Khan thinks she can afford a loan too.
Sunak and Kahn will always be remembered as bringing England to its knees we need them both out so fast come on people
Do you know what they both have in common?
Sunak ? This rot started under Blair , look how property prices went crazy under nu Labour and they did nothing to curb it , why ? , Labour had its nose in the trough just like the Tories
The bacon dodger and the street pschitter.
@@mickyaramsLolololololololol! Mmmm both clowns 🤡
Sunak and Khan? Two completely diametrically opposed politicians.
He has no idea how much his ULEZ policy has hurt the decent people of London. He should be ashamed of himself as the rich driving around in their Range Rovers don’t pay a penny.
Oh he does- he actually loves it
He just doesn't get it or worse just doesn't care.
He knows, he doesn't care
must be hard for Khan to keep a straight face when he hears about how the poor are suffering
Like he fxxking cares
It's not just the poor that's suffering either.
How does he sleep at night ???
@@leannehanshaw9799 With his 4 wife's, having a great time, at our expense.
Just like all the other freeloaders that turn up here in the UK.
He was warned multiple times that ULEZ will have the biggest impact on working people on lower salaries. He didn't care as he was too busy promoting his book.
tell me little fella, WHICH mayor brought in the ULEZ scheme.....
and was already tested and deemed all for absolutely negligible change. Negligible at best.
There's other areas of environment impact that need attention. The ulez extension was and always will be a cash grab.
And back pocketing tax payers money
The congestion charge had absolutely no impact on how jammed London streets are, and Ulez won't reduce pollutants in the slightest. These schemes are so obviously purely to make money and nothing else. Scammed again.
It was never his idea to extend it - there's plenty of proof that it Grant Shapps and Boris's condition of the loan to TFL - again an issue caused by Boris as Mayor when he changed how TFL was funded
What a joke he is. He tells the caller to scrap her car under the scrappage scheme and buy a new car. This unfortunate lady can't even afford to buy a pint of milk. Where is she to get the funds to buy a new car ? These politicians are out of touch with the real world.
You get £2000 to scrap the car. Pretty sure you can buy a second hand car that's compliant for that price?
@@KingBlueSlimssin what world are you living in?
@@KingBlueSlimss She still owes £3000 on a non-compliant car!
And yes, whilst it is possible for a mechanically savvy person like myself, to buy and run a £2000 ulez compliant car, for many it just is not.
@@KingBlueSlimssif she owes 3k and scraps the car for 2k the finance company still has to be paid off. She gives them the 2k and still owes them 1k and she has no money remaining to buy a car. Or she scraps the car an gets 2k , buys a compliant car and still pays the finance off each month for a car she no longer has. How does that fix the situation.
£12.50 ulez a day is £375 a month being wasted. I'm sure she's paying insurance and other bills on her car too. That car is hemorrhaging cash right now. She needs to sell or scrap the car (even if she dont get much for it). and Start getting the bus (or train) to work.. and after several months with the money she saves she'll have the money to buy a second hand ulez compliant car ..or afford a deposit on a better flat/house share so she can reduce her cooking bills. Her sharing a house with 15 people and just 2 bathrooms and two toilets is just insane..
Did he advise a woman who can't afford milk to buy a new car or did I miss hear that? 🤯
No, he said scrap or sell your car that you cant afford and buy one that you can with the money from the sale/scrappage of your old car.
@Synchronised01 so scrap a perfectly functional car to replace it with a potentially worse one thanks to khan
The future of London is bleak with this man at the wheel.
It's very simple go out and vote do not vote for Sadiq Khan
Of course he ends up blaming 'the government', despite being Mayor for many years now.
Whilst he bears some responsibility, you dont ultimately think it's the governments fault? They're the ones in charge.
@@BurnCKCwhat’s the point of having a mayor then? He never gets blamed for anything he does, if it’s always the government there’s no point in having a mayor ffs
@@barneyrubble8590
Bang on mate!
They pass the buck n' blame each other!
The whole thing needs reform..
Well yes, but if the tories followed through and banned the unethical no fault evictions, she wouldn't even be in this ULEZ preeminent in the first place.
@@cretinousswine8234when labour gets back and do nothing for 5 years but spend. The Tories will get voted back in and you will still be blaming the Tories after 5 years of labour because of the previous 10 yra of conservative. Grow up
Basically, she got useless advice and nothing will change. This country's an absolute disgrace and I feel so sorry for people who are struggling. My partner and I both earn decent wages, but we're still constantly in fear of extra bills, living costs being pushed up, food costs, car and petrol costs. People in this country are barely surviving and that's no way to live.
Imagine being born now
She made a lot of utterly ridiculous financial decisions and got herself in this position, we all have the same conditions to play with it’s about the choices you make. Handout culture is alive and well with a lot of you
We're you listening.. she was managing until the ulez came in. Meaning she has to pay an extra £12. 50 a day, just to get to work. 12.50 x 20 ...??
Wa..ker
Listening to khan just backs up my argument mp's,and mayirs should all be from a working background and know what it is to make ends meet
She tells him she has no money, he tells her to buy a car. Enough said.
He tells her to sell the car she cannot afford and buy a car she can afford.
Sadiq doesn't care about this. His new year fireworks display told us all very clearly what he cares about.
😄😆 Haaa ... forgot about that ! Said it all didn't it ? 👌
@@lynnepostings And confirmed by his woke re-naming of the London Overground lines.
Do huge firework displays cause air pollution?
was the worst pollution in years in that area, the meters went off the scale@@valeriejackson7659
Everyone to blame but him ! We must get rid of him..👎
boris johnson introduced ULEZ project😅
@@stayhappybetrue for the city centre not half of the Home Counties 😡
They're the same hands tied behind their backs, at least he acts like he cares
@@berkamp9832 If he ‘cared’ he would reduce the penalty fines on ULEZ by at least 80%. It’s his cash cow, brings him in loads of money. Just because he purrs at the right moment doesn’t make him ‘caring’. Go check out his history.
And Khan could have scrapped it! But he hasnt despite all the suffering it's causing!
His answer "use the scrappage scheme" 🙄
Polite words escape me... The man's just detached. Completely detached.
Either that, or it's on purpose.
It's on purpose
both,
He doesn't care he doesn't want to care
They don't have real life solutions to real life problems.
He just doesn't care.
This went exactly how I thought it would. Khan didn’t listen. Didn’t empathise. Didn’t care.
These sickos need to get out of office. They have big Egos and lofty ideals and care not about the people who are effectively numbers to them!
I moved out of London because it's just unaffordable. When you are out, you suddenly realise how abused you were as a human. The whole culture of London living is unbelievably depressing and it becomes more apparent the longer you are out of there.
I visit London every so often, but never stay for more than about 3 days. Less than that is interesting, more than that is too much.
London first but unfortunately it will be all of the uk within a decade the most taxed people on the planet due to incompetent governments both sides of the house thinking the lazy answer is always more tax
i'm scared to go back to london. was beautiful in the 60s 70s 80s. now it's just a nightmare. lost its soul.
But your name is live the dream ?
As soon as my kids are done with school I’m gone too
£800 a month for one room and shared bathroom/toilet and kitchen in a shared property is scandelous.
Sounds very Dickensian
My mortgage is only another 150 on top and I live in a 5 bedroom town house in the SE with a drive and garden. £800 pcm for that room is disgusting. At most it should be £400!
I just can’t believe what is going on in London with the ULEZ charge, crazy that Khan is not run out of office
He shouldn't be in office,his tenure ended and he did not get voted in or out ,he just stayed due to covid,that's no longer the case(covid) so he should be out.
Ex Londoners who can prove they were born in a borough of London should be able to vote for the next mayor
Most Home Counties residents would vote him out
When our world is ruled by money this is the result.
I’d love to see Khan go about like Boris did on a bike without his security and armoured Range Rovers and see the state of him when he got home the way he’s treated Londoners.
Johnson is a buffoon, but I really respected the fact that he practiced what he preached when he was mayor and led by example getting on his bike. Lots of respect that move, makes him seem like he's in touch, no suprise that people fell for his personality it's hard not to.
Why is it never he’s fault always the government
because the government directly funds city hall, if he doesn’t have enough money, he can’t provide higher benefits, more housing, a more generous scrapage scheme etc
What an absolutely awful man Sadiq Khan is. He did not listen to this poor, poor lady. This is the man who wants to bring in more people to England!!! We can't even help our own. This is outrageous. This Mayor needs to be gone.
He wants more of a certain group
Londoner - I'm in a dire financial situation
Khan - buy a new car
😬
I hate this man and as a Christian that is hard to say. He has brought London to it's knees.
I'm not sure what Language he was speaking maybe he told her to steal his car.
Don't the taxpayer pay for his very very expensive Range Rover with bullet-proof glass a massive 5.0 Lt engine
More than one by the way and a van for his dog that's Haram 😂
I feel for young people so much, I'm 50 and had to liv in shared accommodation like this lady when i was young.
The biggest difference is that my generation (as desperate as it was) still had the opportunity to work double hard and get out of poverty to become successful. The young don't have that opportunity now.
This is simply very sad! The reality is there is no hope she will be in this vicious cycle for years to come. The mayor has no answers and has no will to help in these situations and the reality is there is nothing she can do really. Please London it’s time for change, Khan needs to go!!!
£800 a month for one room!? That is outrageous.
I have a 3 bed house and the mortgage is only £750 (first time buyer). The rent price is outrageous.
Bring back 99/100% mortgages, people like this woman need the opportunity to get themselves a place to live.
How can someone save a deposit when paying £800 a month for a single room.
That's London
She said 15 others as well that £14000 a month
Why live In London then, move somewhere cheaper lol
@@Jattyaaa😮 and be driven away from job, family and friends, and she is a single parent? No, something needs to be done about housing.
My friend lives in a flat in Islington with two flatmates - they pay £850 a month for a single room each. Another friend was living in Uxbridge for £800 a month with eight housemates, on a salary of £20k.
Scrap the ULEZ , and Congestion Charge until 2030 - Give working class people half a chance ffs
Stop driving huge gas guzzling cars?
They don't want poor people living in London.
He doesn’t give a dam on people struggling…..get rid of him🤬🤬😡😡🇬🇧🇬🇧
If ULEZ was all about reducing pollution in London then every penny raised should be ploughed into helping non compliant drivers (that have a genuine need for a vehicle in a city awash with public transport) to change to a compliant vehicle.
Every penny? I would like to think most would go to ensure more environmentally friendly forms of public transport are subsided and promoted
we need less government intervention, not more - don't champion it in any form
@@philwill0123 Public transport? Is that a joke?
@@Jimmy-es8bclike when you get of the train walk to the bus , get 12 foot away and it drives off 11.30 pm ,
What about the underground that has unsafe levels of air quality?
You couldn't make it up . Sad iq answer to ulez is buy a new car when your already in debt 😮
The money saved would cover most of it.
Why have a car if working from home? What a waste of money.
People can't always expect everything others have. I would put somewhere to live before a finance agreement on a car in those circumstances.
Some people do need to get their priorities sorted out. They might also benefit from financial advice as in - if you can't afford it, don't buy it. She spends a lot on takeaways apparently, let's analyse her finances and lifestyle and all help her out.
Give her a Martin Lewis crash course.
@@OH2023-cj9if it's an accumulation of things that have piled on her. Most of which she had no control over. As she said, she had enough before ULEZ. She only buys takeaways because her access to the kitchen is very often limited given the are 14 other residents in her building. The housing situation is dire
Khan is USELESS.........
He doesn't care about any one struggling he got enough money to last hem 3 generations..
Longest I've seen James quite and that constipated look on his face spoke volumes about the dodge Sadiq was playing with Sarah. ''Hang in there"' what a signoff.
Yes notice how he wasn't interrupting him , both are full weight ⚓⚓⚓
You will never hear O'brien say a bad word against his little bit of afternoon delight. Sickening.
@@dean-gm1lg looked like some of that cognitive dissonance was brewing with James.
He did chime in a couple of times when Sadiq’s stock and wooden robotic decision tree walkthrough and dodge reached peak bs.
The only reason I kept listening.
His mates on the dinghy’s don’t have to worry about bills & they enter illegally with no passports no ID but live in comfort
Yes exactly they certainly don't there is millions of taxpayers money being used to accommodate everyone coming in illegally and being catered for free and that needs to stop so hard working people can actually afford to survive after going out to work khan hasn't a clue about struggling he isn't in that same situation as that lady
They get free phones food travel lodging and utilities £60 a week or more, then they have trained people who get them on benefits like pip
It only cost £8 million a day bargain basement price 😂
He needs taking to court. Get him out, vote reform
As usual, it's everybody else's fault. The sooner he goes the better.
Cant listen to this guy’s fantasy world , especially while looking at him .
This country is going down big time and becoming a disgrace , no working person should ever be in this situation and conversely every member of Parliament and Councillor should be capped at £25k a year .. let's see how things change then !!!!!!
Section 21 isn't a no fault eviction, it's a no reason eviction. The landlord selling up is a legitimate reason to evict and can use other grounds to do so. They need to address the supply/demand imbalace in housing, with immigration being a major reason for it
This man is emotionless, heartless and has no empathy whatsoever
Ulez is killing far more then it’s saving 😢
*than
It will take a while to see the benefits of ULEZ in terms of public health. I don't dispute the negative repercussions for those economically vulnerable. But ULEZ is to benefit the most health vulnerable people in particular (but also everyone). There is a bit of overlap between economically disadvantaged and living in polluted urban areas, where negative effects on health are accumulated. Just like poorer people are exposed to more mould in homes etc. So ULEZ is there to help both health vulnerable and economically disadvantaged. It is doing so but effects won't be miraculous and immediate so it's hard to prove it.
@@dfpguitar
"Hard to prove it" ... conveniently
Who is it actually saving?
nonsense- look at a map of the globe, look at the size of the UK, 1 coal power station- China over 1100, then India..... we're insignificant and there is not an air issue in the suburbs, it's a tax on the poor, simple as that@@dfpguitar
You cannot walk back into your home without fines and bills coming through letterbox. One thing I've learnt is not to be forgetful. The mayor needs to go, it's absurd what's happening and I just don't understand the cold behaviour of these people, it's a nation that won world wars, is it all dead or what
Its okay for him sitting there making out hes some kind of hero. Hes making so much money from it and meanwhile shes barely existing. We need to get rid of him. He keeps going around the subject and suddenly thinks shes going to afford an electric car. Does he realise how much they cost! She cant even afford any milk and hes going on about buying houses
I love the way James says, ‘slung out of your home by your landlord’… as a landlord who has seen my interest only mortgage triple plus getting taxed on the gross income, it doesn’t surprise me that landlords are selling up. Sadiq Khan then says later on that it’s the government’s fault that people are getting evicted. What people seem to forget is that being a landlord is a business like any other. The purpose of a business is to make money. If that business isn’t making money anymore, it shuts down.
Landlords get out of flack about increasing rents and things like that, but successive governments have imported millions of people, built a fraction of the houses needed, changed the tax laws and hiked up the interest rates. The rent that I charge is going to have to go up from £400 a month, three years ago to £700 a month, and I can absolutely promise you I’m not making a penny more profit. In fact, as I write this, and I think about what I’m actually making per week, it really isn’t worth it.
Who locally would buy a car that isn't ULEZ compliant?
Her car is worth no more than than it can be scrapped (£2k) and she still owes £3k on it. It's worth so little because of Sadiqs policies.
Then he has the nerve to gaslight and basically make it her problem.
I see his mouth moving but I don't hear any solutions.
My council is the same. 70s/80s they scrapped an expensive parking scheme when they found it was not making money and costing a lot to keep going. 40/50 years later they did it again, even though they were told not to. Now, there are dozens of these meter things all over the place and not being used. Please introduce public corporal punishment for wasting vast amounts of cash, again!
What country is this happening in?? Disgusting UK. I'm in Scotland but genuinely raging with this ulez cost. Feel for this caller. Khan get a grip.
Nothing he said helped that lady
It's her fault for being so poor. If she'd worked hard at school..
The message is clear for Sarah. No one cares. Working-class people are on their own when they become entangled in situations similar to hers, and that people like Sarah should get on with it and shut up! It’s sad
Dont blame it on section 21 Mr Khan. Blame it on unfair taxation on private rentals Its not worth being a landlord anymore. The problem will only get worse.
It is more than evident from this poor ladies accent she is English, unfortunately for her she obviously didn't get the memo that explains how that places her at the very bottom of deserving citizens in England. This extraordinary situation is quite deliberate by the likes of Khan.
This breaks my heart. People in such trouble who are working!
It is when the listened to middle classes start feeling for themselves what they may have even voted to subject the poor to, that things will be done.
She just wants free money. Can’t stand hearing people moaning for free money they didn’t earn.
@@barrytyler you are being too harsh, I mean at least she is working rather than claiming benefits. In her circumstances being in work doesn't seem to be worth it for her. She's got nothing left at the end of the month. This is one of the reasons why in the past so many people became "work shy"..
@@ANM21985 Then she needs to cancel her gym membership which she dropped into the conversation that she has. And stop buying takeaways every night because she doesn’t want to use a shared kitchen. She’s got money for a car and a phone also. She has enough income. She like lots of others just have no idea how to budget. They feel they need to spend money to have none left, because having none left gives them an excuse to ask for more.
Although I don't live in the UK anymore, if this poor lady sells her current car to pay off her car loan, then she is left with no car, and no money because of paying off the loan. How exactly does the scrappage scheme then help her to acquire a ULEZ car, since she has no car left to scrap. I would assume that she can't afford to lease a car, because leasing is for new cars, which she certainly can't afford. None of the advice offered really helps her out here.
I read people saying she brought this on herself for making poor decisions, but she didn't make the decision to loose her home via the Section 21 imposed upon her, which forced her out. 14 years of brutally uncaring, greedy Tory mismanagement, chaotic disastrous leadership, the highest inflation within 40 years, massive increases to energy bills, and policies that aren't intended to help people when they most need it. Policies that have only lined the pockets of the super rich and massive corporations seem to have led to this dire situation for so many people in the UK, just like when the Tories held power for far too long back in the 1980s.
Of course I did. It would appear you're assuming she bought it brand new? Seems pretty unlikely, I'd guess its a used car, and we don't know how much it cost her or when she bought it. She may have bought it a couple of years ago for all we know, for let's say for 4K, and still has 3K left to pay. So if she were to sell it now based on that, she may only get say 3250 for it. Of course this is purely speculation, but it would seem to be a far more likely scenario than still paying off a high end model she bought brand new 18 years ago. Most people don't generally keep the same car for 18 years. Either way, this still doesn't answer my original question of how the scrappage scheme would be of any use to her after she sold her car!
Absolutely spot on.
No car, no scrappage scheme 🤦🏼♀️my first thought when he came out with that gem
If it's worth 4000 it would probably already qualify. @@theclocker7406
They want your car off the road , theplan is you won't be able to afford it , yet he pretends to help.
Years ago I was turfed out of my home because the council wouldn't pay my £280 per month rent while I was unemployed. I ended up in a hostel that cost them £1800 per month to house me. They are brilliant at maths
I hope things improve for you soon.
hard to stay positive I know.
the saying the lunatics are in charge of the asylum, comes to mind.!
@@gefleigh4264 cheers mate. I'm back in employment and my own flat
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I can’t understand why people put up for the constant rip-offs in the UK. Put a foot wrong and you’re FINED for it, amounts that are completely disproportionate to the gravity of the “offence”.
I don’t live in the UK anymore, but come back regularly and I’m amazed at how the gap between the wealthy and the poor has become a massive gulf. What has happened? There’s money around, it’s just not being distributed fairly.
We have well taught to doff our caps at our betters. And if we have a forelock in lieu of cap, tug it in deference to our betters
@@Coelacanth1 beautifully put
Because people choose only to complain after paying the fines, a nation of pushovers.
We here in Britain really do need to start being more like the French people and use POWER TO THE PEOPLE 🔥🔥🔥
If you don’t mind dm asking what country you live in and how you moved there? I’m a 21 year old who sees nothing but a bleak future for the Uk and living in this country seems a less and less likely option every day 😢
Love the way he pretends he cares about anyone other than himself.
Might as well be a Tory as far as I'm concerned
I'm glad I'm not living in London.
He don't give a f**k all that matters to him is making money off people
All the council homes in London are gone. 50% to foreign newcomers.
Instead of increasing housing benefits how about introducing rent caps and decrease rents?
Who decides rent caps ? You ? The renters ?
The ones who decide should be the ones who don't benefit from high rents.
@@brianzembruski5485 It's a vicious circle, housing is expensive because of high demand , utilities are high , room rents are too high but that's landlords perogative . Why invest in a house if you are not going to profit from it ? It needs to be said that 90% of renters are useless tools. Cannot empty bins , cannot change a lightbulb, cannot do anything apart from complain about high rents. I've spent many hours throwing away trash left behind these 'tools' . 😀👍
and caps on how many houses you can own?
@@pimpzmobi That's not going to provide more rentals 👍
My heart goes out to this poor lady, the hardship she faces on a daily basis through no fault of her own. She does raise a valid point, regarding issuing people in her position with a deposit, to enable them to buy their own homes. Imagine paying almost £900 monthly and sharing kitchen and bathroom facilities.!!!!
Does anyone really believe he cares about the indigenous population?
So after talking the bleeding obvious , how is that any help to the caller?
The people who bring in these new laws will not be affected by them because of their comparative wealth compared to the ordinary people who are struggling to abide by them.
Imagine Labour running the whole country. RIP UK.
I dont think you can make it any worse at this point mate
The UK is already dead.
Yes Labour will be awful. Let's vote the tories in for another 14 years. I'm sure they'll fix the mess they've made.
@@MangaNeutronic very wishful thinking
@@scottwales9178 Tony Blair's New Labour government created this mess if you care to remember. We didn't need to get into Iraq/Afghanistan for 20 years. We didn't need to flood the country with "cheap labour" only to realise we now need way more infrastructure to cope with the population. Labour and the Tories both need to get out.
I can't buy milk "buy a new car to avoid the problem of ULEZ which will cost me more than 350 quid" you could not write that answer, what an utter utter joke
The main problem in and around London is rent.If you are in social housing you might be paying 600-700 a month for a 2 bed flat but if you are renting privately that would be 1300-1800+.
All I hear from politicians is we will build more affordable homes but they never address the rent problem.
It's not a rent problem, it's a population problem. With net migration at nearly 700,000/year, and a population approaching 70,000,000 on this small island it's a simple supply/demand issue.
When demand for housing is so incredibly high, guess what happens to those property/rental prices?
If the population was halved, the property/rental prices would also be half. It's basic market forces at work.
There are far too many people in the UK, particularly in the south east. The whole nation is buckling because of this.
I wouldn't empty my bowels in london coz it's such a dump
because of the right-to-buy TORY SCHEME, councils don't bother building the council houses the UK needs. less than 3,000 built last year, 4,000 the year before. MILLIONS are on the housing list. @@Thai.Farang
Yep, I was in folkestone. new housing development is purely for ex Londoners and commuters, not local workers or subsidised social housing. It's either 4 bed townhouses for commuters or 2 bed luxury apartments for townies, all at 300k plus, when average salary is like 22k
Building more homes is not going to solve a thing Peter Hitchens did a brilliant recent interview on this topic you should check out he was also on gb news giving his take on it and explains why it is not working or will change a thing.
Why does the government not buy all the private houses that are being sold and leave the tenants in them
To easy...
Had they of done this 20 years ago and established a huge range of council houses in London, the government would have assets in property worth billions today. Modern Britain doesn't invest in the future...
The government are still selling council owned properties to tenants.
Because we'd have to borrow even more fiat currency! On paper, this corporation is bankrupt!
Because that would:
A. Cost billions.
b. Leave no houses for people to buy.
London's air quality has seen a significant improvement decade after decade since around 1892 with the exception of one. It is now the best it's been in over three hundred years and that was BEFORE ULEZ.
He's so ignorant, it's unbelievable how much he can ignore in such a short time, thankfully his chauffeur is waiting with a coffee before his free drive through London for a free dinner dinner
Dont be fooled. She wouldn't have the priority for a council home and if they wanted us to have them they'd stop the right to buy selling them off. Utterly useless lot
And this is why I have no time for James O'Brien. If this was a Conservative Mayor then Sadiq would be getting pressed hard, but he doesn't.
Regardless of what side of the political fence you fall on,I wish journalists would interview EVERYONE in the same manner.
The bias is obvious, with the way James usually interviews its irrefutable.
From a non Torie voter....
You are absolutely correct.
With friend's like Khan and O'Brien the native working class of this country don't in all honesty need enemies
@@madcyril4135Khan O'Brien Owen Jones along with most of today's labour party loath the traditional working class.
@@johnlewis9158left wing people don’t seem to register this though!
@@barneyrubble8590 O'Brien's acolytes are by and large middle class guardian reading pseudo left wing overpaid public sector employees with £500.000 houses in the whitest parts of the home counties
He doesn't care one bit
The Khant couldn't give a F. Neither could O'Brien.
Someone tell this idiot benefit calculation doesn’t work like that and it wouldn’t matter even if housing benefit had increased. Did he just say to her to get in more debt and buy a new car ?
Sarah and others in her situation should be exempt from ULEZ …. £30 million found for tube drivers and nil for London slow earners !!
ULEZ is an offer to participate, not an order. You agree to participate by creating a "road user account".
Do not register yourself as a "road user" to participate in "road user charge" scheme.
There is no law that force "a driver" never mind "a man" to participate in the ULEZ schema, or any Clean Area Zone anywhere.
Once you registered as a "road user" on a private corporation website you agree on terms to use "complied" vehicle. Euro3 for petrol and Euro 6 for diesel is only the start. Once enough number of people are registered as "road users" they will introduce the payment for usage of the roads on a wide country basis in a moment of a switch for any type of cars.
Do not get into the trap of "road users".
Do not comply.
And don’t let the boats in this is a massive cost on housing
Not in London in my case, however, I've fallen between those cracks where there's no help available to you until you reach a point of poverty and desperation from which there won't be an escape, even with the help that suddenly becomes available only once you're in crippling debt. Once you fall into debt and poverty, escaping it is practically impossible - it's a miserable trap which, without significant changes to how benefits are paid, and to whom, and without changes such as rent caps, and price caps on essentials, is inescapable, particularly for those who cannot work.
Muslim getting revenge on UK 😂
Sadiq khan has ruined one of the most important cities on the planet... Why doesn't he govern some other towns like Rochdale or Rotherham?
If a man has no beans he cannot share them with anyone .
You want to be giving a deposit for a house 🙄
AHH but if your a Tory it's called getting in debt forever owing the banks
Does he live next door to the "Man of Straw" 🧃🧃
"What we should be doing is spending more money on bricks and mortar" He's been the mayor for more than seven years, so why isn't he? They talk but say nothing, this person cannot any longer afford to live in London, because all of her spare money goes to ULEZ. Obviously people in her position cannot afford a newer vehicle she in a monthly deficit as it is.
The state of the nation will be much worse when more Landlords sell up. Blame it on the greedy government. If the accommodation she has described was Private the council would fine them. Things will only get worse! This country are a disgrace!!
£800 is a lot for a room.
This whole situation is beyond sad that the government has let this situation exist.
U think they care 😂 they are the ones purposely doing it benefits them
What actually is this country? Is it A satire comedy show or something ?
A cash cow for the wealthy.
Welcome to Brexit Britain
@@Coelacanth1Right wing economic policies that they sneak in by making people vote for right wing social policies
@@SenorPenor1337 More people voted for Brexit in London than voted for Khan as mayor and yet he is in power and very vocal about his hatred of Brexit. We had Brexit in name only.
This is a classic example of how out of touch most politicians are with day to day folk. Telling someone they can pay off two cars at the same time when their situation is dire. ULEZ is an obvious tax grab that has pushed this person over the edge, who was already teetering. The kind of person Labour once represented. And, worth noting. It's more environmentally friendly to drive a car until the end of its usable life than to scrap it and buy a new car or even another used car. The elephant in the room.
Council tax is extremely high and should be reviewed.
Hes a disgrace .he should not be able to do what he is doing to the british people .
How can it ever be possible to build enough housing if there is a non stop population increase happening via the coast line.
My friend just comitted suicide due to Ulez fines he got on his van nearly £2000 he had no money to pay daily so planed to pay at the end of the month the £250 but they add masive fine for late payment he made about £1800 for the building job but after costs and fine he was -£800 and defaulted on his rent everything at 32 he couldnt see a way forward and the debt was just mounting debt.
I made a wrong turn at a round about I went in for less than 5 minutes and got a £180 fine wiping out 2 days wages which meant no food shop crying kids angry wife I hate this country.
This man Khan has ruined peoples lives. How did we allow this to happen.