TOMPLUM .........

...... There's no smoke without fire!

Re: Birmingham Mosque - "It's the biggest of some 30 religious institutions whose congregations could be adversely affected when the CAZ comes into force next year, the city's transport and environment overview & scrutiny committee heard. (Wednesday)

Councillor Muhammad Afzal, speaking in his role as chairman of Central Mosque, said the impact of the new charges on people of faith could affect attendance for prayers and funerals.

"This will affect thousands of people who attend the mosque every week. During Ramadan around 25-30,000 people attend prayers."

""We also have many funerals where people come from a wide area, from Bradford, London, all over."

Coun Majid Mahmood (Lab, Bromford and Hodge Hill) said a way to exempt worshippers attending prayers needed to be considered, as otherwise the council could risk being discriminatory towards those with a protected characteristic under the Equalities Act."

It'll all be kickin' off. It'll end up with a megga chimp-out!

When they extended parking meter charge period to include Sunday morning, it resulted in the City Centre Friends Meeting House closing. Quakers are an ageing lot. Many relied on getting a lift to attend meeting from members who still drive.

No sympathy whatsoever from the council!

August explanation,,Tonker and myself were havin' a chat liaaaake tha does and being Sunday we were discussing worship, Tonker posted this video about fairness

what does that fink Liaake

Bolton Mosque


Wigan Mosque

There are 27 mosques in Bolton !

Here's one I bet you didn't know, according to Katie Melua there are Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing.
Imagine the congestion charge for all them.

Cycles go free Brasstoff, Even E bikes as of yet but, These torys will try to stop that..

Sadiq Khan.....It's a wind up

from the Guardian

Sadiq Khan’s office has expressed concern after false and racially oriented social media messages about London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) were viewed hundreds of thousands of times without being taken down.
The concern over the tweets, which falsely claim the London mayor plans to exempt Muslims and other “minority religions” from the charge, came after analysis that indicated there could be a paid-for campaign using fake accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, to amplify anti-Ulez sentiment.
Khan’s plan to expand the zone, which charges drivers of the most heavily polluting vehicles £12.50 a day, to outer London has become politically controversial, especially since the Conservatives narrowly won the Uxbridge byelection with a campaign heavily focused on opposing the plan.
Ulez has increasingly become a focus for social media abuse of the Labour mayor, who has been targeted by an estimated 300,000 pieces of openly racist or racially oriented abuse since he assumed office in 2016.
The latest incarnation, sent by a series of rightwing accounts, features a faked newspaper article about Khan’s supposed plan for a religious exemption.
The mocked-up article says Khan had announced at a press conference that people travelling for a medical emergency or “prayer for the minority religions” would not have to pay the charge even if their car was heavily polluting.

Khan is Muslim, with Islam identified as one of the faiths supposedly exempt. “Which religion do you think Seditious Khant has left out of his exemptions from ULEZ?” one tweet viewed over 200,000 times said.

Separate analysis by Valent Projects, a social media disinformation consultancy, identified around 3,700 seemingly fake Twitter accounts used to “amplify” anti-Ulez tweets from genuine accounts, in an apparent attempt to make the opposition seem more significant.

A wind up bicycle? whatever next?