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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 23, 2021 0:21:45 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? The congestion charge was proposed by Ken Livingstone when he was an independent. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 0:28:38 GMT
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. Technically there is still two, they just merged under one name in 2009 but they are both the same size as they always were. Only 595 prison places were lost on the Isle of Wight through the closure of a third adjacent site. London has lost plenty of prisons over the years, there was that one in Richmond and perhaps most famously Holloway, so not sure what your point is? |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Feb 23, 2021 0:53:40 GMT
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? The congestion charge was proposed by Ken Livingstone when he was an independent. I believe the original poster was referring to the Congestion Charge being extended to the Circulars as proposed by the useless Tory government a few months ago |
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Post by vjaska on Feb 23, 2021 1:53:45 GMT
So having looked at the independents transport policies including ignoring Piers Corbyn totally, I decided to concentrate on the three party outsiders in the Greens, Lib Dems & UKIP (lol, don't know why they still exist) and their transport policies or lack of them. Green - Sian Berry doesn't list her policies on her website from what I've seen so I'll take it she has none other than that one around making TfL's fleet zero emissions by 2025 that she mentioned a while ago. One thing I found was this - www.sianberry.london/news/green/the-best-ever-bus-stops/ Green bus stops with real time information, bees, solar panels and a crossing at every bus stop on main roads - so expensive in other words and no practical to stick a crossing at every bus stop on a main road either. Not only that but she then says this, "Whenever I talk to people about bus stops, in my work as a local Councillor or Assembly Member, it becomes more and more clear that they simply aren’t good enough for the older people and outer Londoners who rely most upon them" - sorry, do Inner Londoners not rely on bus stops or am I missing something here. Where does she think we wait for a bus - on a tennis court, in space, in the river? So far every other candidates website I've looked at has the decency to list their policies for better or worse - it's not hard Sian! Lib Dems - Louisa Pollit is like Sian Berry - afraid of listing her policies in case she gets a 5000-1 win? All I could find was she wants green transport & to abandon the Silvertown tunnel and continue with LTN's which is exactly like the Greens. Maybe you get to re-join the EU if you vote for her? UKIP - Dr Gammons, dear oh dear am I voting for a racist or a pig....or maybe both? Joking aside, at least he has a little bit more information though you have to visit the murky world of the UKIP website to get it. Oh and through a generic search, I found this, "There are over two million miles of unused tunnels, streets, and chambers beneath London. I want to convert these disused spaces into walkways, safe cycle lanes, and create the world’s first underground ‘Pod’ transport system" I'm not sure anyone would want to walk or cycle underground - people already moan about subways and underpasses as crime magnets as it is. So quite easily, I can rule myself out of voting for any of these. The choice for me is getting very difficult now. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 23, 2021 2:08:41 GMT
The congestion charge was proposed by Ken Livingstone when he was an independent. I believe the original poster was referring to the Congestion Charge being extended to the Circulars as proposed by the useless Tory government a few months ago Not as useless as the expanded ULEZ charge and now upcoming GLA boundary congestion charge |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 23, 2021 2:15:43 GMT
So having looked at the independents transport policies including ignoring Piers Corbyn totally, I decided to concentrate on the three party outsiders in the Greens, Lib Dems & UKIP (lol, don't know why they still exist) and their transport policies or lack of them. Green - Sian Berry doesn't list her policies on her website from what I've seen so I'll take it she has none other than that one around making TfL's fleet zero emissions by 2025 that she mentioned a while ago. One thing I found was this - www.sianberry.london/news/green/the-best-ever-bus-stops/ Green bus stops with real time information, bees, solar panels and a crossing at every bus stop on main roads - so expensive in other words and no practical to stick a crossing at every bus stop on a main road either. Not only that but she then says this, "Whenever I talk to people about bus stops, in my work as a local Councillor or Assembly Member, it becomes more and more clear that they simply aren’t good enough for the older people and outer Londoners who rely most upon them" - sorry, do Inner Londoners not rely on bus stops or am I missing something here. Where does she think we wait for a bus - on a tennis court, in space, in the river? So far every other candidates website I've looked at has the decency to list their policies for better or worse - it's not hard Sian! Lib Dems - Louisa Pollit is like Sian Berry - afraid of listing her policies in case she gets a 5000-1 win? All I could find was she wants green transport & to abandon the Silvertown tunnel and continue with LTN's which is exactly like the Greens. Maybe you get to re-join the EU if you vote for her? UKIP - Dr Gammons, dear oh dear am I voting for a racist or a pig....or maybe both? Joking aside, at least he has a little bit more information though you have to visit the murky world of the UKIP website to get it. Oh and through a generic search, I found this, "There are over two million miles of unused tunnels, streets, and chambers beneath London. I want to convert these disused spaces into walkways, safe cycle lanes, and create the world’s first underground ‘Pod’ transport system" I'm not sure anyone would want to walk or cycle underground - people already moan about subways and underpasses as crime magnets as it is. So quite easily, I can rule myself out of voting for any of these. The choice for me is getting very difficult now. lol the greens is bordering near Piers Corbyn in terms of stupidity. As for the Lib Dems, it is a real shame as I have voted them many times in the past but they seemed to have really lost their moral and sanity compass and are heading straight down the u-bend in the toilet bowl. Paddy Ashdown would be turning in his grave! bahahaha at UKIP and 2 million miles disused tunnels, maybe it would be a good place for ukip members to be amongst many of the sewer rats. The majority of these tunnels are narrow and would not even fit someone standing up |
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Post by SILENCED on Feb 23, 2021 9:56:07 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. Yes agree, on one hand they complain London is too congested, then they say let's build 500,000 homes to make it more congested, without any infrastructure improvements. How is that in any way a joined up urban planning policy. Most politicians are as thick as .... insert any descriptor(s) you feel fit here. Politicians are the ecological disaster, not the public. |
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Post by MKAY315 on Feb 23, 2021 12:24:38 GMT
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. I did also include that earlier in the thread. (Buildings) |
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Post by MKAY315 on Feb 23, 2021 12:29:06 GMT
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. OK since when was race bought into this? The reason why most people that I know dislikes him is because he talks a lot of waffle and he seems to be oblivious to the fact that his own comrades are the cause of the issues today with the cuts of funding. What makes me laugh is the fact that even his own party don't rate him. |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Feb 23, 2021 13:43:02 GMT
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. OK since when was race bought into this? The reason why most people that I know dislikes him is because he talks a lot of waffle and he seems to be oblivious to the fact that his own comrades are the cause of the issues today with the cuts of funding. What makes me laugh is the fact that even his own party don't rate him. Not to mention within London people are really unlikely to even consider someone's race when voting. Well how else would have Khan got in? My issues with Bailey are nothing to do with his skin colour. He just spews nonsense out of his mouth pretty much every single time he opens it. |
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Post by MKAY315 on Feb 23, 2021 15:01:52 GMT
OK since when was race bought into this? The reason why most people that I know dislikes him is because he talks a lot of waffle and he seems to be oblivious to the fact that his own comrades are the cause of the issues today with the cuts of funding. What makes me laugh is the fact that even his own party don't rate him. Not to mention within London people are really unlikely to even consider someone's race when voting. Well how else would have Khan got in? My issues with Bailey are nothing to do with his skin colour. He just spews nonsense out of his mouth pretty much every single time he opens it. Exactly that and he knows he's in a losing battle so he's trying to deflect as much as possible but people are seeing through his bs. |
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 24, 2021 13:14:47 GMT
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. Yes agree, on one hand they complain London is too congested, then they say let's build 500,000 homes to make it more congested, without any infrastructure improvements. How is that in any way a joined up urban planning policy. Most politicians are as thick as .... insert any descriptor(s) you feel fit here. Politicians are the ecological disaster, not the public. Its also another thing Khan is now coming under fire for is the Silvertown tunnel. All the eco dudes are now on his case after saying he wanted to clean up London and with his ULEZ plans etc |
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Post by LondonNorthern on Feb 24, 2021 20:57:58 GMT
It would be nice to see more policies on getting people back to work
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Post by ThinLizzy on Feb 24, 2021 23:24:51 GMT
It would be nice to see more policies on getting people back to work I think the days of everyone working from an office are over now. The pandemic has proven it is possible to have a workforce that splits its time between office and work from home- in fact some business may even favour the cost benefit of having people working from home |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2021 23:48:24 GMT
It would be nice to see more policies on getting people back to work I think the days of everyone working from an office are over now. The pandemic has proven it is possible to have a workforce that splits its time between office and work from home- in fact some business may even favour the cost benefit of having people working from home I would agree, in my office for example only the car users were required to return after the 2nd lockdown for a short short period for a couple of days a week. As I don’t have a parking space and road parking isn’t generous around my office I choose to get public transport so I was exempt. Even when we do all go back I expect a return of a couple of days a week gradually adding more and more so I expect a full office week by late August/early September. |
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