‘We’re renegades now. We’re outlaws. Bandits.’ This was my assessment as the builder boyfriend pulled up outside the house in his old truck with a load of wood hanging off the back.
White van man and dirty great pick-up truck man, in the case of the BB, have found a way around paying the Ulez. Mostly, they present their customer with the £12.50 a day charge, which is what they have been doing since the Ulez first started in more central areas of London.
Now it has been expanded to all London boroughs, including where a lot of these chaps live and have their work yards, they have had a go at being more inventive by way of protest. We know this, because it is all over the news, and Iain Duncan Smith has said he supports the men who are pouring cement into the cameras and putting bags over the top of them.
One of the builder boyfriend’s mates had smeared jam and Marmite on his registration plates
The builder b has not done that, though he has said he would really, really like to.
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