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I have always struggled with the position of many on the pro-LTN lobby about the use of EVs (which I hasten to add seems to have been adopted by the council - I suspect due to the lobbying influence exerted by some during OHS and LTN discussions with vested-interest groups).


If the objective really is to reduce emissions and pollution, as we are all led to believe it is, then EVs have to be part of the solution surely - for every diesel or petrol car removed (even if it is replaced by an EV) then that has to be an emissions-win surely? Not unless your objective is not to reduce emissions but to reduce the number of vehicles.


A bit like the lack of infrastructure investment to support modal shift the council seems very unwilling to try and make EV ownership more accessible to a broader number of people - a bit like cargo bike storage it seems you can only really own an EV if you have a driveway and somewhere to recharge your car.


It always seems alien to me how the council and Mayor laud their transition to EV for their vehicles yet do little to embrace and encourage private ownership of EVs.

Again, this is what you get if we have a Labour or Tory council from the end of next weekend, both are as ideologically driven as the other on this issue.


I believe we have a Momentum run Labour group on the council currently and when you have Corbynomics in the mix, you're never going to get a realistic solution to this issue, to the point that even moderate Labour Cllrs are towing the party line in an attempt to keep their jobs after next week. (Alas the lack of LTN mentions on Labour election material)


Labour until 2018 were pretty decent in Southwark, keeping libraries and essential services going when the Tory gov cut funding to councils, but this has made them more ideologically driven than before which has led to this passive-aggressive warfare against people who are just trying to live.

Given Labour have abandoned any mention of the LTNs in the their campaign leaflets (certainly in my ward), seemingly pretending they don't exist.


I am not sure what the thinking is here - it actually looks very odd that they refuse to mention them when it is front and centre of every other party's campaigning and has been a huge part of Labour's term of office in our local wards and the biggest talking point. If they are re-elected does this mean they can't claim to have a mandate to roll more of them out?


Anyone have any guesses what their strategy is here - are they hoping people have forgotten about the LTNs or are they desperately trying to distance themselves from them? I am in the Village Ward so have only seen the local candidates' leaflets - is it the same in other wards?

CPR Dave Wrote:

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> You would think Labour would be proud of the

> enormous success they claim to have achieved with

> the LTNs and should be shouting it from the

> roadside.

>

> Strange they aren't eh?


The only people on social media who are promoting the LTN in Dulwich are the radical cycling activists who seem to be doing the work for Southwark Labour who have gone quiet on the subject.

He was part of a group of councillors in Signoria in Dulwich earlier today enjoying a hearty lunch talking very loudly about their strategic plans to use their "database" to target "weak" Labour voters to get out and vote.


Apparently, if they get exit polls in any given ward on polling day that shows they are struggling they will send groups of councillors/supporters to knock on doors of "weak" supporters within the ward to implore them to get out and vote.

Rockets Wrote:

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> He was part of a group of councillors in Signoria

> in Dulwich earlier today enjoying a hearty lunch

> talking very loudly about their strategic plans to

> use their "database" to target "weak" Labour

> voters to get out and vote.

>

> Apparently, if they get exit polls in any given

> ward on polling day that shows they are struggling

> they will send groups of councillors/supporters to

> knock on doors of "weak" supporters within the

> ward to implore them to get out and vote.



It wouldn't be the first time they've done this as I remember one local election, I think it was either the 2014 and 2018 election when a knock on the door from EIGHT Labour activists at around 8pm on election day when there records didn't show we voted. We actually did on that day, but they will send round half a dozen activists on the evening of polling day.

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