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Will that decision today now see Khan out of office as Mayor next May?0
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Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?3 -
Massive increase in council houses and he's frozen tube and bus fares. The mayor has far less powers than people seem to think. Even the ULEZ expansion was forced on him...Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?
He stays as mayor (if he runs again) as there won't be a better alternative from the opposition. Shaun Bailey is a joke.5 -
Friend Or Defoe said:
Massive increase in council houses and he's frozen tube and bus fares. The mayor has far less powers than people seem to think. Even the ULEZ expansion was forced on him...Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?
He stays as mayor (if he runs again) as there won't be a better alternative from the opposition. Shaun Bailey is a joke.Fares across our network increased by an overall average of 5.9% on 5 March 2023.
https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/new-fares
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Wasn’t the expansion of ULEZ actually a condition placed on the Mayor by the Government in exchange for effectively bailing out TFL during the pandemic?7
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Correct, the MPs of that government then wasted public money on a pointless court case just to politick.se9addick said:Wasn’t the expansion of ULEZ actually a condition placed on the Mayor by the Government in exchange for effectively bailing out TFL during the pandemic?2 -
Genuine question: Is the air quality in Greater London really less than that of other cities in the UK - notably, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool etc... It does seem Londoners are being punished.1
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It’s about the same, hence why Birmingham and Manchester have government backed and funded Clean Air Zones that charge those driving high emission carsChiAddick said:Genuine question: Is the air quality in Greater London really less than that of other cities in the UK - notably, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool etc... It does seem Londoners are being punished.2 - Sponsored links:
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The other Cities do not cover anything like the area of the new zone and charge a lot less than London.4
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it's a tax on the less wealthy4
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No. Not to my knowledge.se9addick said:Wasn’t the expansion of ULEZ actually a condition placed on the Mayor by the Government in exchange for effectively bailing out TFL during the pandemic?
His choice alone.6 -
I think it might. He is choosing a crusade that is unpopular with a good number but relying on there only being a relatively weak alterative / unknown Conservative alternative (not Shaun Bailey by the way).shirty5 said:Will that decision today now see Khan out of office as Mayor next May?
He may survive but it will be a harder battle than it might otherwise be.0 -
Well poor air quality has a direct impact on respiratory diseases and life expectancy. So that.Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?4 -
valleynick66 said:
No. Not to my knowledge.se9addick said:Wasn’t the expansion of ULEZ actually a condition placed on the Mayor by the Government in exchange for effectively bailing out TFL during the pandemic?
His choice alone.
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Wouldn't they be using the bus?MrOneLung said:it's a tax on the less wealthy0 -
Years prior were frozen weren't they?clive said:Friend Or Defoe said:
Massive increase in council houses and he's frozen tube and bus fares. The mayor has far less powers than people seem to think. Even the ULEZ expansion was forced on him...Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?
He stays as mayor (if he runs again) as there won't be a better alternative from the opposition. Shaun Bailey is a joke.Fares across our network increased by an overall average of 5.9% on 5 March 2023.
https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/new-fares0 -
I wasn't aware of this.Friend Or Defoe said:
Massive increase in council houses and he's frozen tube and bus fares. The mayor has far less powers than people seem to think. Even the ULEZ expansion was forced on him...Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?
He stays as mayor (if he runs again) as there won't be a better alternative from the opposition. Shaun Bailey is a joke.
What are the numbers he has managed to achieve versus predecessors and are we talking about genuine council houses / sensible rents or the property that gets labelled as 'affordable' but maybe actually isnt?
No axe to grind here just curious as the housing market is not a good story for renters generally but interesting if he is managing to make it more equitable for increasing numbers. That would be a good angle to help him get re-elected if true.0 -
https://www.london.gov.uk/council-homebuilding-london-last-year-higher-rest-country-combinedvalleynick66 said:
I wasn't aware of this.Friend Or Defoe said:
Massive increase in council houses and he's frozen tube and bus fares. The mayor has far less powers than people seem to think. Even the ULEZ expansion was forced on him...Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?
He stays as mayor (if he runs again) as there won't be a better alternative from the opposition. Shaun Bailey is a joke.
What are the numbers he has managed to achieve versus predecessors and are we talking about genuine council houses / sensible rents or the property that gets labelled as 'affordable' but maybe actually isnt?
No axe to grind here just curious as the housing market is not a good story for renters generally but interesting if he is managing to make it more equitable for increasing numbers. That would be a good angle to help him get re-elected if true.
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Croydon said:
Years prior were frozen weren't they?clive said:Friend Or Defoe said:
Massive increase in council houses and he's frozen tube and bus fares. The mayor has far less powers than people seem to think. Even the ULEZ expansion was forced on him...Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?
He stays as mayor (if he runs again) as there won't be a better alternative from the opposition. Shaun Bailey is a joke.Fares across our network increased by an overall average of 5.9% on 5 March 2023.
https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/new-fareshttps://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/fares-on-tfl-services-will-rise-by-48-per-cent#:Fares on TfL services will rise by RPI+1 (4.8 per cent) overall on 1 March 2022 to help TfL reach financial sustainability.
On 1st March 2021 the overall cost of London’s public transport costs will rise by 2.6%.
https://www.wondersoflondon.com/londons-tube-and-bus-fare-rises-confirmed-for-2021/
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And Bath Bristol and others are having ULEZ brought in.Rothko said:
It’s about the same, hence why Birmingham and Manchester have government backed and funded Clean Air Zones that charge those driving high emission carsChiAddick said:Genuine question: Is the air quality in Greater London really less than that of other cities in the UK - notably, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool etc... It does seem Londoners are being punished.
The difference between those places and greater London is that the majority of the population of those city's don't actually live in the areas with the pollution problem. The problem is in a much smaller area. They live in the outskirts and travel in. Whereas in London it's very common for people to spend the majority of their time in the greater London area and very normal for people to not leave the area for months on end. The damage to people's body's is awful.
Incidence rates of non- smoking lung cancers are 1 in 5 million in the UK. Or 1 in 5,000 in greater London. Thats a horrendous difference.6 -
Labour policy already rejected at the ballot box. No wonder SKS doesn’t like it.2
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Yepse9addick said:Wasn’t the expansion of ULEZ actually a condition placed on the Mayor by the Government in exchange for effectively bailing out TFL during the pandemic?
Alex dePfeffel didn't bail out TfL thru the pandemic, he only loaned it funds to keep it (just) afloat with decimated passenger revenue.
That loan came with stringent conditions, among which was a simplistic requirement to increase revenue. Effectively ignoring the reality of 2020 and 2021and insisting that the unforeseeable trough in TfL revenue had to be refilled retrospectively. No regard whatsoever for TfL's crucial role in the life of our city.
What alternatives have Kahn, Tfl and the GLA had? Where else could significant revenue be sourced? It could only ever be the residents and commuters of London.
Kahn is the chump left holding the shitty end of the stick. Remains to be seen if London's voters are as gullible and hard of remembering as the tories seem to believe, early signs from (admittedly forever true blue) Uxbridge weren't encouraging.
The current squatter in 10 Downing St is parroting the childish mendacity and Alex dePfeffel's petulant idiocy, apparently in the belief that if you repeat the same lies often enough and loudly enough, sufficient halfwits and morons will believe you.8 -
All while they bailed out tory led Mayor's during the pandemic e.g. Birmingham.Billy_Mix said:
Yepse9addick said:Wasn’t the expansion of ULEZ actually a condition placed on the Mayor by the Government in exchange for effectively bailing out TFL during the pandemic?
Alex dePfeffel didn't bail out TfL thru the pandemic, he only loaned it funds to keep it (just) afloat with decimated passenger revenue.
That loan came with stringent conditions, among which was a simplistic requirement to increase revenue. Effectively ignoring the reality of 2020 and 2021and insisting that the unforeseeable trough in TfL revenue had to be refilled retrospectively. No regard whatsoever for TfL's crucial role in the life of our city.
What alternatives have Kahn, Tfl and the GLA had? Where else could significant revenue be sourced? It could only ever be the residents and commuters of London.
Kahn is the chump left holding the shitty end of the stick. Remains to be seen if London's voters are as gullible and hard of remembering as the tories seem to believe, early signs from (admittedly forever true blue) Uxbridge weren't encouraging.
The current squatter in 10 Downing St is parroting the childish mendacity and Alex dePfeffel's petulant idiocy, apparently in the belief that if you repeat the same lies often enough and loudly enough, sufficient halfwits and morons will believe you.2 -
Certainly not his narrative. He was stating very clearly today that it was his decision. From the point of political expediency, why isn't he passing the buck?Friend Or Defoe said:
Massive increase in council houses and he's frozen tube and bus fares. The mayor has far less powers than people seem to think. Even the ULEZ expansion was forced on him...Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?
He stays as mayor (if he runs again) as there won't be a better alternative from the opposition. Shaun Bailey is a joke.3 -
I don't think Khan is arsed it was forced on him, air quality is driving passion of his mayoralty to date, and he's right to do it.
What, will happen is, what happened when the Congestion Charge came in, when the first Low emission zone came in, when the LTNs came in, that nothing massively will change, the world won't end, and Londoners will get on with it with little or no complaint, except for a few noisy people who insist on putting Essex and Kent on their address, despite living in London10 -
From Crayford to Hillingdon ?Friend Or Defoe said:
Wouldn't they be using the bus?MrOneLung said:it's a tax on the less wealthy
Or with a trolley-load of food shopping
Or late at night with children ?0 -
He's not a weak leader.SporadicAddick said:
Certainly not his narrative. He was stating very clearly today that it was his decision. From the point of political expediency, why isn't he passing the buck?Friend Or Defoe said:
Massive increase in council houses and he's frozen tube and bus fares. The mayor has far less powers than people seem to think. Even the ULEZ expansion was forced on him...Carter said:Yeah I think it will, the inner London population seem to love him and I'll say I prefer him to that shithouse Johnson but extending the ULEZ is something else that just batters people who can't afford to take any more financial battering.
What has he done during his term in office that has genuinely improved life for Londoners and not just cost people money?
He stays as mayor (if he runs again) as there won't be a better alternative from the opposition. Shaun Bailey is a joke.1 -
You can easily buy a compliant car for £500 and sell a non -compliant one for at least as much. Not sure why this is considered a tax on the poor.4
