Moment 'Blade Runner' uses power tool to cut down ULEZ camera and traffic light in latest attack on Sadiq Khan's hated scheme

This is the moment an anti-ULEZ activist uses a power tool to cut down a camera and traffic light in the latest attack on Sadiq Khan's controversial scheme. 

The group, known as 'Blade Runners', opted for their own version of justice this weekend by felling another ULEZ camera using power tools, including a saw. 

The scenes took place during a protest in Southwark, South London, with the group taking out a set of lights at a four-way junction.

As the group film their actions, loud horns can be heard in celebration as protestors stand on an island in the middle of the road carrying placards.

Video footage shows the moment that the group fell the lights with a power saw easily cutting through the tubing.

Moments later, the lights come crashing to the ground as the man filming the chaos narrates the ongoing celebrations.

He sarcastically says: 'The lights have fallen over here, folks, the lights have fallen over, oh dear, oh deary me.

'What has happened here, oh no, oh no - the lights have fallen over here.'

Whilst the man narrates over the latest felling of traffic lights by the group, traffic begins to spew into the middle of the four lanes as there is no longer a traffic light to instruct motorists.

This excites the man who exclaims: 'Oh look, the lights have gone out and all the traffic is flowing through here again. We've got the traffic running freely here.'

As multiple cars whizz past, the man addresses the fact that his group have once again stopped ULEZ, a £12.50 charge for Londoners who take their cars into certain parts of the city.

He gleefully continues: 'Oh no ULEZ, no lights, no nothing, have some of that.'

The man then bursts into exaggerated laughter before adding: 'Carnage at the circus, come on the lights are down, they've just fallen over here.'

The scenes were shared to social media in a post with the caption: 'What do you think - a worthy case in the face of tyranny or just a bunch of vandals?'

The post received over 37,000 likes with thousands of comments from social media users who were divided over their views on the situation.

One said: 'Fair play to them, it's a complete scam that does nothing.'

Another added: 'When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.'

A third replied: 'They are common criminals.'

Another commented: 'Modern day Robin Hood with a band of merry men.'

Last month, The Blade Runners went on an angry rampage across the capital in the aftermath of Sadiq Khan's historic win, cutting poles in half, spray painting cameras, and in one village setting them on fire. 

Spy cameras were toppled from Ickenham and Northwood in Hillingdon and Feltham and Hounslow in west London, to the surburban village Yiewsley on the outskirts of London. 

One activist says the 'purge' was carried out as people are 'p***ed off about the tyranny reigning over us'.

The slashing of wires and damage to boxes came hours after Khan secured a third term as he trounced his nearest rival Susan Hall of the Conservatives by a majority of nearly 276,000 votes.

MailOnline believes that at least seven Ulez cameras were wrecked following Saturday's result and 14 since the polls closed.

Blade Runner Matt Hardy 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'.

Mr Hardy described Khan as a 'little rat' and said '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.'

In another video posted on TikTok, he chuckles as he stands on dog poo and then smears it on one toppled camera smeared that has a sticker plastered over the lens which reads: 'Blood on your hands.'

Laughing hysterically, Mr Hardy says: 'S**t happens, folks. What a f***ing nuisance. Look at this folks. Down on the decks.'

The Metropolitan Police recorded 795 crimes relating to Ulez cameras between April and September last year. There were 200 reports of cameras being stolen and 595 involved cameras being damaged.

Another anti-Ulez activist under the alias Dan the Man with a Van claimed that three cameras had fallen and traffic light wires had been 'chopped' in west London since the election.

'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 said.