The terrible cost of Buffoon Johnson's lies and incompetence

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"The publication last week of the final bill for Boris Johnson’s failed Garden Bridge has once again pushed this fiasco into the headlines.

As well as an eye-watering £43m bill for taxpayers for this Johnsonian indulgence, what has been revealed this week is astonishing profligacy by the arms-length vehicle established to deliver it: the Garden Bridge Trust. The line by line account of their spending reveals £161,000 spent on their website and £400,000 on a gala fundraising event, amongst many other eyebrow raising numbers.



Bear in mind that back in 2012, Johnson promised that the bridge would be entirely privately funded. The bridge’s most ardent advocate, Joanna Lumley, called it a “tiara for the Thames” and “a gift for London”. Today, the project would seem the very opposite of a “gift”......


"There was Johnson’s £10,000 taxpayer funded trip to San Francisco to drum up sponsorship for the Thomas Heatherwick garden bridge design, despite the fact that TfL had not at that point even tendered for a designer for the project.

The design contest itself was a sham, with one of the two other architects TfL begged to enter in an attempt to create the illusion of due process later saying they felt “used”. Heatherwick Studios was awarded the contract and made a total of £2.7m from taxpayers from the failed project.

Soon after the bridge’s engineering contract had been awarded to Arup, it was announced that TfL’s then managing director of planning, Richard de Cani, was departing TfL for a new job – at Arup. He continued to make key decisions relating to the project while working his notice period, a flagrant conflict of interest that wouldn’t have been allowed in the civil service. Arup received more than £13m of taxpayer cash from the failed project...."


"The Garden Bridge may seem like small beer compared to Brexit. But there is a common thread: Boris Johnson. It should appal and outrage us that this man is still being talked about as a potential future Prime Minister. His most expensive vanity project, now dead in the water, perhaps serves as an unwelcome prophecy for what may be to come should he ever enter Number 10."

https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/s...ge-and-power-brief-history-garden-bridge-4484
 
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All things aside, how on earth does a website cost 161k?
 
Yep buffoon Johnson

43 million of public money along with 10 million private funding on the scrapped garden bridge

43 million cuts in budget of one of the councils that approved it
Lambeth which will hit schools and cares services etc for the next 4 years

Buffon Johnson the same bloke who bought water cannons for riot control and then found out they were not legal

Bloke is an idiot who the f voted for this idiot in the mayor elections

Who voted for this idiot to be an MP he could not run a p*** up in a brewery
 
Serves Buffoon Johnson right along with the other buffoons In the the ERG if there is no Brexit
At all

Bunch of * ankers :LOL:
 
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that Khan is a *anker as well

So was / is livingstone

Tbh they are all a bunch of *****rs :LOL:
 
Tbh I should be s politician

One may say many things about Transam

But no one could say he was a *****r :sneaky:

:LOL:
 
yes, I wondered that.

Johnd should have a look at Sadiq Khans spending on cycle lanes........
Did the cycle lanes ever materialise?! Or another wasting money with nothing to show..
 
"The publication last week of the final bill for Boris Johnson’s failed Garden Bridge has once again pushed this fiasco into the headlines.

As well as an eye-watering £43m bill for taxpayers for this Johnsonian indulgence, what has been revealed this week is astonishing profligacy by the arms-length vehicle established to deliver it: the Garden Bridge Trust. The line by line account of their spending reveals £161,000 spent on their website and £400,000 on a gala fundraising event, amongst many other eyebrow raising numbers.



Bear in mind that back in 2012, Johnson promised that the bridge would be entirely privately funded. The bridge’s most ardent advocate, Joanna Lumley, called it a “tiara for the Thames” and “a gift for London”. Today, the project would seem the very opposite of a “gift”......


"There was Johnson’s £10,000 taxpayer funded trip to San Francisco to drum up sponsorship for the Thomas Heatherwick garden bridge design, despite the fact that TfL had not at that point even tendered for a designer for the project.

The design contest itself was a sham, with one of the two other architects TfL begged to enter in an attempt to create the illusion of due process later saying they felt “used”. Heatherwick Studios was awarded the contract and made a total of £2.7m from taxpayers from the failed project.

Soon after the bridge’s engineering contract had been awarded to Arup, it was announced that TfL’s then managing director of planning, Richard de Cani, was departing TfL for a new job – at Arup. He continued to make key decisions relating to the project while working his notice period, a flagrant conflict of interest that wouldn’t have been allowed in the civil service. Arup received more than £13m of taxpayer cash from the failed project...."


"The Garden Bridge may seem like small beer compared to Brexit. But there is a common thread: Boris Johnson. It should appal and outrage us that this man is still being talked about as a potential future Prime Minister. His most expensive vanity project, now dead in the water, perhaps serves as an unwelcome prophecy for what may be to come should he ever enter Number 10."

https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/s...ge-and-power-brief-history-garden-bridge-4484
If only there was a way to mobilise enough council tax payers to cancel their direct debits and pay the tax with their proportion of that £43M deducted.

If a handful did it, they'd just get clobbered.

If millions did it it's the GLA that gets clobbered.
 
Did the cycle lanes ever materialise?! Or another wasting money with nothing to show..
There was a cyclist talking about it on LBC.... the jist was that vast amounts had been spent, with records showing a quite a few kms built but the total length of the lanes built in real life is only a fraction.

And city hall now employs more people than ever
 
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