Opposition to LTNs, 20mph zones and 15-minute cities is strongest from conspiracy theory believers so why has the U.K. government aligned itself with them, trashing prior promises?
... [+]The damage done to one of his company’s high-tech cameras came as little surprise to Streets Systems’ director Tom Bailey. “We’ve been expecting this for a long time,” he told me as a staffer clambered up a ladder to inspect the cut cable.In London, masked vigilantes styling themselves as “Blade Runners” have been felling ultra-low emission zone cameras at significant cost to taxpayers, yet receive glowing coverage in right-wing tabloids.
One of the finger-pointers was a renowned conspiracy theorist who claims that the 5G mobile phone network has killed over 400 people. According to him, 5G is part of a “Kill Grid” which includes other street-furniture such as lamp-posts. He has accused Gateshead council officers and street maintenance workers of being “baby killers.”
On Newcastle’s private Facebook group, calls to gather outside of the homes of LTN advocates telling them that “they and their ilk are not welcome in Jesmond” are still online despite complaints made to admins.Of course, most LTN opponents are not conspiracy theory believers.
The lobby group warns that such vandalism could not only “get you fined,” it is counterproductive because it “usually just extends the trial/monitoring process.” To conspiracists, LTNs and 15-minute cities—the two concepts are often conflated— are dystopian, climate-lockdown concentration camps with people electronically chained to their neighbourhoods and fed on ground-up grasshoppers.
Sunak said: “For too long politicians have focused on the short-term decisions with little regard for the long-term impact on hard-working families. Libertarian influencers Nigel Farage and Neil Oliver rant against 15-minute cities, and Canadian psychologist turned hard-right culture warrior Jordan Peterson tweeted earlier this year that “idiot tyrannical bureaucrats [will] decide by fiat where you’re ‘allowed’ to drive,” as if city traffic departments have not done this very thing for at least the last one hundred years.
On its website, Not Our Future warns: “The draconian and destructive response to Covid-19, involving the lockdown of entire populations, mandated injections and mask-wearing, and aggressive suppression of freedom of expression, could be a harbinger of things to come.”“Central Bank Digital Currencies … have the potential to lock humanity in a dystopian control grid,” exaggerates the body, claiming that this grid would be a “de facto prison.”...
It dilutes your argument when some fellow travelers are chemtrail chancers, out-and-out racists, and moon-landings-were-faked grifters.... [+] At the meeting, this claim was met with jeers. The rightwing press subsequently monstered Khan for adding that “some of you have good reasons to oppose ULEZ, but you are in coalition with Covid deniers. You may not like it [but] you are in coalition with the Far-Right.”
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