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Post by vjaska on Feb 22, 2021 19:09:13 GMT
Sadiq Khan : . He has 5 years to fix TFL financially from the mess from Boris and failed to, but made it worse with his lack of Financial and Business knowledge which led to the delay of Crossrail and the Overground takeover of the Suburban network. . Crime rate at London is worse than New York's a for his lack of funding to the police with a well high budget claiming "the police is hurting the black people" and spends the money instead on useless luxury coffee machines and cycle lanes no one ever uses apart from cyclists doing exercise. Petal is not the issue, she came in 2019 and Khan came in 2016 he had 3 years to well fund the police with the budget he had. . Cutting funding to youth centres which possibly leads to youth crime. . Only built 12,000 affordable homes compare in 2016 he promised 500,000 affordable homes by 2020. . After Grenfell, only 6 flats were renovated out of 2,000 flats needed renovating. . When confronted by critics, he does not at least own up one problem he has done, but instead blames others for his issues. . Lacks charisma which makes him less trustworthy and likable. . Enforced all of those LTNs which is hurting businesses and accessible services for the less able without doing a consultation for he least. . Extending the congestion charge for his failiers to fix up his issues which is not helping businesses especially during a economic crisis. He had no sympathy or whatsoever for businesses and called for a Tier 3 lockdown without asking for business support. Instead of taxing everyone, how about cooperate sponsorship of TFL which will keep TFL afloat for the long run. Do you want 4 more years of poor leadership and the same thing or a new direction? Successive governments have cut funding for youth centres amongst other youth projects Did Boris meet his affordable housing target, in fact has anyone met this target they all set in the last few decades? Grenfell issue is to do with the government, has nothing to do with the mayor And as for the Tier 3 point, he asked the government for business support last year - www.standard.co.uk/business/sadiq-khan-business-support-furlough-ending-b28779.html He also launched a £1m resilience fund for London businesses - smallbusiness.co.uk/how-to-get-a-30000-grant-for-your-london-based-small-business-2551267/I'm no fan of Khan before any accusations of bias come my way. |
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Post by VMH2537 on Feb 22, 2021 19:29:39 GMT
Sadiq Khan : . He has 5 years to fix TFL financially from the mess from Boris and failed to, but made it worse with his lack of Financial and Business knowledge which led to the delay of Crossrail and the Overground takeover of the Suburban network. . Crime rate at London is worse than New York's a for his lack of funding to the police with a well high budget claiming "the police is hurting the black people" and spends the money instead on useless luxury coffee machines and cycle lanes no one ever uses apart from cyclists doing exercise. Petal is not the issue, she came in 2019 and Khan came in 2016 he had 3 years to well fund the police with the budget he had. . Cutting funding to youth centres which possibly leads to youth crime. . Only built 12,000 affordable homes compare in 2016 he promised 500,000 affordable homes by 2020. . After Grenfell, only 6 flats were renovated out of 2,000 flats needed renovating. . When confronted by critics, he does not at least own up one problem he has done, but instead blames others for his issues. . Lacks charisma which makes him less trustworthy and likable. . Enforced all of those LTNs which is hurting businesses and accessible services for the less able without doing a consultation for he least. . Extending the congestion charge for his failiers to fix up his issues which is not helping businesses especially during a economic crisis. He had no sympathy or whatsoever for businesses and called for a Tier 3 lockdown without asking for business support. Instead of taxing everyone, how about cooperate sponsorship of TFL which will keep TFL afloat for the long run. Do you want 4 more years of poor leadership and the same thing or a new direction? Successive governments have cut funding for youth centres amongst other youth projects Did Boris meet his affordable housing target, in fact has anyone met this target they all set in the last few decades? Grenfell issue is to do with the government, has nothing to do with the mayor And as for the Tier 3 point, he asked the government for business support last year - www.standard.co.uk/business/sadiq-khan-business-support-furlough-ending-b28779.html He also launched a £1m resilience fund for London businesses - smallbusiness.co.uk/how-to-get-a-30000-grant-for-your-london-based-small-business-2551267/I'm no fan of Khan before any accusations of bias come my way. The housing is not directly from the government, it's from the Council's and the Greater London Authority. Sadiq had a budget of a billion for housing and failed to deliver 500,000 aswell with a housing fire safe renovation costing only £5,000 and delivered only 6 out of 2,000. Are you saying it's the government's fault when it was down to the council and the mayor. |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Feb 22, 2021 20:50:21 GMT
Sadiq Khan : . He has 5 years to fix TFL financially from the mess from Boris and failed to, but made it worse with his lack of Financial and Business knowledge which led to the delay of Crossrail and the Overground takeover of the Suburban network. . Crime rate at London is worse than New York's a for his lack of funding to the police with a well high budget claiming "the police is hurting the black people" and spends the money instead on useless luxury coffee machines and cycle lanes no one ever uses apart from cyclists doing exercise. Petal is not the issue, she came in 2019 and Khan came in 2016 he had 3 years to well fund the police with the budget he had. . Cutting funding to youth centres which possibly leads to youth crime. . Only built 12,000 affordable homes compare in 2016 he promised 500,000 affordable homes by 2020. . After Grenfell, only 6 flats were renovated out of 2,000 flats needed renovating. . When confronted by critics, he does not at least own up one problem he has done, but instead blames others for his issues. . Lacks charisma which makes him less trustworthy and likable. . Enforced all of those LTNs which is hurting businesses and accessible services for the less able without doing a consultation for he least. . Extending the congestion charge for his failiers to fix up his issues which is not helping businesses especially during a economic crisis. He had no sympathy or whatsoever for businesses and called for a Tier 3 lockdown without asking for business support. Instead of taxing everyone, how about cooperate sponsorship of TFL which will keep TFL afloat for the long run. Do you want 4 more years of poor leadership and the same thing or a new direction? I agree his charisma is nothing compared to Boris, however don't see why it's an issue. If he lacked the charisma then he wouldn't have been elected Mayor in the first place. It's been mentioned multiple times now that the crime rate now is not as easy as it looks. What do you propose? It's been mentioned countless times that the funding cuts have come from the home office from Theresa May, Amber Rudd, Said Javid and Priti Patel, all 4 are to blame there. Despite this he's still put on some extra officers which is good in itself. I've mentioned why Youth Programmes are really difficult in London and I'd like to see what your suggestions are to get it to work? Or at least how the other candidates plan to mitigate this? I agree about the LTNs. However the law has already picked him up on that. Where exactly is he extending the congestion charge, that's a silly scheme proposed by the Tory government which he was firmly against. How exactly was he meant to fix TfL when he had less and less money each year? Please elaborate on that point as to what you expected him to do? |
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Post by vjaska on Feb 22, 2021 22:09:48 GMT
The housing is not directly from the government, it's from the Council's and the Greater London Authority. Sadiq had a budget of a billion for housing and failed to deliver 500,000 aswell with a housing fire safe renovation costing only £5,000 and delivered only 6 out of 2,000. Are you saying it's the government's fault when it was down to the council and the mayor. You specifically mentioned Grenfell - the fallout from Grenfell is dealt with by the government hence the criticism around the government in regards to the whole farce of many homes continuing to have flammable cladding and has nothing to do with the mayor. Grenfell is a national issue not a local one. Yes he has failed on his affordable housing aim but he isn't the only one who has failed this so I ask again - did Boris achieve his own target and did successive governments achieve their targets because I suspect the answer is a resounding no. |
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Post by VMH2537 on Feb 22, 2021 22:12:05 GMT
The housing is not directly from the government, it's from the Council's and the Greater London Authority. Sadiq had a budget of a billion for housing and failed to deliver 500,000 aswell with a housing fire safe renovation costing only £5,000 and delivered only 6 out of 2,000. Are you saying it's the government's fault when it was down to the council and the mayor. You specifically mentioned Grenfell - the fallout from Grenfell is dealt with by the government hence the criticism around the government in regards to the whole farce of many homes continuing to have flammable cladding and has nothing to do with the mayor. Grenfell is a national issue not a local one. Yes he has failed on his affordable housing aim but he isn't the only one who has failed this so I ask again - did Boris achieve his own target and did successive governments achieve their targets because I suspect the answer is a resounding no. For Boris no he did not I can confirm. Based on how I see it it's not a Tory Vs Labour going the better Job. They are politicians at the end of the day by doing there business. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 22, 2021 23:26:01 GMT
Alright folks As much as a lot of people don't like what Khan has done with the bus cuts I understand that it was an necessary evil. There was a major black hole left in the TFL organisation in which had to be clawed back. The Crossrail fiasco had to be one of the obvious examples of a project running late. From when they said it will open by 2017/18 originally I knew straight away it wouldn't open at that time with the amount of things that had to be done from the building of stations to the signalling and to achieve safety statuses on the sites. Shaun Bailey is a puppet man for the tories heck even his own party don't even take him seriously so how much more the main public. I'm guessing he hasn't heard the term "it's your own people". For when it comes to the screw-ups in TFL. Kahn could have been so innovative in coming up with creative and exciting solutions to revitalise TfL, flipping the bird to the government to say that they didn’t need them but instead he’s spent five years moaning about Brexit, funding and every other problem under the sun that is literally his job to fix. I’m not saying that there weren’t issues from central government but Kahn could have done some work to counteract funding issues. Also his love affair with Trump on Twitter, which then saw the two clowns with public willy waving spats. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 22, 2021 23:30:20 GMT
Kahn could have been so innovative in coming up with creative and exciting solutions to revitalise TfL, flipping the bird to the government to say that they didn’t need them but instead he’s spent five years moaning about Brexit, funding and every other problem under the sun that is literally his job to fix. I’m not saying that there weren’t issues from central government but Kahn could have done some work to counteract funding issues. Fair enough. I did say that the bus cuts were unfortunately a necessary evil given the mess Bojo left behind in 2016. How? in what way. Uber was part of the problem, then after we had far too much excessive roadworks causing problems for most of the network which then started driving people away. I would say the problems grew when Leon left TfL and Mike Brown took over, that was ultimately the toilet flushing for TfL. Some say he could not work with Khan, but I do not know how true that is. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 22, 2021 23:32:39 GMT
So what made you exceptionally qualified to know Crossrail would not open on time, the neither the mayor or his expert advisors knew? Intrigued, as to how it was so obvious to you as you stated, and not them. I did say before that the system has to run on 3 separate signalling systems. Can you tell me what other project has ever had to run like that all at the same time. Having CBTC ETCS and TPWS all at the same time is not an easy thing to do. But the signalling isnt even half of the problems, even at its scheduled original date, there was a hell of a lot not even done, tracks, trains were just about built, stations etc. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 22, 2021 23:40:26 GMT
The problem is Khan has contributed to the black hole along with Johnson so whilst I wholeheartedly agree about Bailey, Khan isn't much better From your own perspective and for everyone else reading this what would you say Khan has contributed to the mess of TFL? If you have already mentioned this in the thread could you put the link through again? Others have said, Khan, continued with fare freeze, hopper fare, ban on junk food ads which bought in millions, lost further potential advertising revenue from delayed crossrail opening. Allowing many anti bus measures from cycling schemes literally terrorise bus routes with mini hellands. |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Feb 22, 2021 23:42:07 GMT
You specifically mentioned Grenfell - the fallout from Grenfell is dealt with by the government hence the criticism around the government in regards to the whole farce of many homes continuing to have flammable cladding and has nothing to do with the mayor. Grenfell is a national issue not a local one. Yes he has failed on his affordable housing aim but he isn't the only one who has failed this so I ask again - did Boris achieve his own target and did successive governments achieve their targets because I suspect the answer is a resounding no. For Boris no he did not I can confirm. Based on how I see it it's not a Tory Vs Labour going the better Job. They are politicians at the end of the day by doing there business. The thing is in reality it's a Tory vs Labour election, so we can really only compare Labour to the Tory options. The only independent win by Livingstone was influenced totally by politics, Labour only expelled him as a formality and re-admitted him in time for the next election because this time around the had no reason to let him run as an independent. In reality if the Greens and LibDems are barely making any in-roads into the Blue vs Red battle with their available funds then the truth is that an independent has a little to know chance, and if an independent does win the mayoralty then I'll happily eat humble pie. I've said before and will say it again, if the Tories had just run a better candidate, anyone other than Bailey at all then they'd have been in a far better position. It's almost as if they knew they wouldn't win this election so chose their most useless candidate. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 23, 2021 0:01:56 GMT
Sadiq Khan : . He has 5 years to fix TFL financially from the mess from Boris and failed to, but made it worse with his lack of Financial and Business knowledge which led to the delay of Crossrail and the Overground takeover of the Suburban network. . Crime rate at London is worse than New York's a for his lack of funding to the police with a well high budget claiming "the police is hurting the black people" and spends the money instead on useless luxury coffee machines and cycle lanes no one ever uses apart from cyclists doing exercise. Petal is not the issue, she came in 2019 and Khan came in 2016 he had 3 years to well fund the police with the budget he had. . Cutting funding to youth centres which possibly leads to youth crime. . Only built 12,000 affordable homes compare in 2016 he promised 500,000 affordable homes by 2020. . After Grenfell, only 6 flats were renovated out of 2,000 flats needed renovating. . When confronted by critics, he does not at least own up one problem he has done, but instead blames others for his issues. . Lacks charisma which makes him less trustworthy and likable. . Enforced all of those LTNs which is hurting businesses and accessible services for the less able without doing a consultation for he least. . Extending the congestion charge for his failiers to fix up his issues which is not helping businesses especially during a economic crisis. He had no sympathy or whatsoever for businesses and called for a Tier 3 lockdown without asking for business support. Instead of taxing everyone, how about cooperate sponsorship of TFL which will keep TFL afloat for the long run. Do you want 4 more years of poor leadership and the same thing or a new direction? I am not a Khan lover but I would say he has sufficient business knowledge, but seems to only do things that suits him. To me his ultimate goal is to be prime minister and attempt to do the same as Boris Johnson. I would not say it is funding to the police why crime in London is high. Its down to the efficiency of the Met police in particular a major problem with far too much red tape. lmao @ luxury coffee machines, elaborate. The crossrail issue I did not like how he lied to say he did not know of the initial delay when he did. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 23, 2021 0:02:58 GMT
Sadiq Khan : . He has 5 years to fix TFL financially from the mess from Boris and failed to, but made it worse with his lack of Financial and Business knowledge which led to the delay of Crossrail and the Overground takeover of the Suburban network. . Crime rate at London is worse than New York's a for his lack of funding to the police with a well high budget claiming "the police is hurting the black people" and spends the money instead on useless luxury coffee machines and cycle lanes no one ever uses apart from cyclists doing exercise. Petal is not the issue, she came in 2019 and Khan came in 2016 he had 3 years to well fund the police with the budget he had. . Cutting funding to youth centres which possibly leads to youth crime. . Only built 12,000 affordable homes compare in 2016 he promised 500,000 affordable homes by 2020. . After Grenfell, only 6 flats were renovated out of 2,000 flats needed renovating. . When confronted by critics, he does not at least own up one problem he has done, but instead blames others for his issues. . Lacks charisma which makes him less trustworthy and likable. . Enforced all of those LTNs which is hurting businesses and accessible services for the less able without doing a consultation for he least. . Extending the congestion charge for his failiers to fix up his issues which is not helping businesses especially during a economic crisis. He had no sympathy or whatsoever for businesses and called for a Tier 3 lockdown without asking for business support. Instead of taxing everyone, how about cooperate sponsorship of TFL which will keep TFL afloat for the long run. Do you want 4 more years of poor leadership and the same thing or a new direction? With the police its the government that has messed up not Sadiq. When may was home sec 20,000 officers were lost so you can blame him entirely for failures of the government. But then other parts of the country has not been hit as hard as London. |
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Post by richard on Feb 23, 2021 0:08:18 GMT
With the police its the government that has messed up not Sadiq. When may was home sec 20,000 officers were lost so you can blame him entirely for failures of the government. But then other parts of the country has not been hit as hard as London. Because London is were the money is. Look at the Isle of Wight there's only one prison there now so it wasn't just London. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 0:13:04 GMT
For Boris no he did not I can confirm. Based on how I see it it's not a Tory Vs Labour going the better Job. They are politicians at the end of the day by doing there business. The thing is in reality it's a Tory vs Labour election, so we can really only compare Labour to the Tory options. The only independent win by Livingstone was influenced totally by politics, Labour only expelled him as a formality and re-admitted him in time for the next election because this time around the had no reason to let him run as an independent. In reality if the Greens and LibDems are barely making any in-roads into the Blue vs Red battle with their available funds then the truth is that an independent has a little to know chance, and if an independent does win the mayoralty then I'll happily eat humble pie. I've said before and will say it again, if the Tories had just run a better candidate, anyone other than Bailey at all then they'd have been in a far better position. It's almost as if they knew they wouldn't win this election so chose their most useless candidate. I like Shaun Bailey and I have since I heard him speak with the other conservative candidates in Croydon. The problem is there are some narrow minded people who only see him as the Uncle Tom type and they really have a problem with the educated black man. He will sadly never resonate with those who only see him as that and it’s a shame because I do think he has a lot to offer London. He was certainly the best candidate offered, better than that American woman anyway. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 23, 2021 0:20:03 GMT
The housing is not directly from the government, it's from the Council's and the Greater London Authority. Sadiq had a budget of a billion for housing and failed to deliver 500,000 aswell with a housing fire safe renovation costing only £5,000 and delivered only 6 out of 2,000. Are you saying it's the government's fault when it was down to the council and the mayor. Personally I would rather he didn't build more housing and use that budget for something else. Sick of the amount of housing being built in London and the return of the disgusting skyrises. |
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