The terrible cost of Buffoon Johnson's lies and incompetence

JohnD said:
that's interesting.

How many does it employ now, and how many did it employ in 1980?
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Yup Sadiq must be an empire builder. 250 more employees than Boris period

Sadiq Khan is set to increase the number of City Hall employees to 1,000 under draft budget plans to recruit 92 more staff members next year, it was claimed today.

The Greater London Authority currently employs 953 people, almost 250 more than at the end of the Boris Johnson era.


The Standard recently revealed that since Mr Khan became Mayor in May 2016, costs have soared by £9 million to fund a growth in staff and a 25 per cent rise in employees on six-figure salaries
 
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There u go the blokes a bigger waster of tax payers money then buffoon Johnson all pencil pushers
Doubt he gives a wat sit about the cleaners and bin Men

Blokes a :sneaky:
 
£53 million wasted - wow! You gotta hand it to those tory buffoons.(y)

Good ole Khan getting people into employment and paying taxes.
 
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Bodd said:
Thank the light of day for that.. ☺️
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You're grateful for the support of someone so contemptuous of everybody here that he chooses to insult them in every single post he writes by refusing to write properly?

Good grief.
 
noseall said:
Good ole Khan getting people into employment and paying taxes.
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Carillon had a similar model. Jobs for the boys. Worked out well for them. Not so well for those expecting a pension off the back of it or inevitably, the tax payer.
 
The terrible cost in blood and lives through Buffoon Tony Blair's LIES and incompetence!
 
It was a good idea, just ****ed up by greed?

May as well stick a few plantpots on the bridges that are already there.
 
JohnD said:
"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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Probably loose change compared to EU wastage.
 
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