‘Blade runners’ fell Ulez cameras after Sadiq Khan’s re-election

Videos on TikTok appear to show that nine Ulez locations across the capital have been targeted in the hours since polls closed on Thursday and the announcement of Mr Khan’s victory.

Matt Hardy, one of the so-called “blade runners”, claimed on Friday that after polls closed he had “reports flooding in this morning [that] there’s been a purge out there last night after this election”.

Describing Mr Khan as “a little rat”, Mr Hardy added: “Have some of that, it’s people pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us and getting out and doing things about it – real votes, real boys here.”

His video showed that traffic light poles holding Ulez number plate recognition cameras had been cut in half, spray-painted and toppled to the ground in Ickenham, Northwood and other parts of the borough of Hillingdon.

Elsewhere, he claimed power boxes supplying Ulez cameras and traffic lights were burnt in the suburban village Yiewsley on the outskirts of the capital.

In another video, an anti-Ulez activist under the alias Dan the Man with a Van claimed three cameras had been toppled in Feltham, Hounslow, west London “hours after the election” on Saturday night.

“Khan’s been re-elected for the third time and look at that, Feltham have already chosen direct action – the whole pole has come down with the Ulez camera on it,” he told followers.