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  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    IT_Andy said:
    Confirmed today that the project wasted £43m of public cash.

    Info from The Times

    An investigation into the Garden Bridge Trust’s finances showed that the organisation spent almost £418,000 hosting a fundraising dinner in Battersea, southwest London, to drum up support for the project.

    Documents released by Transport for London (TfL) show that just over £1.7 million was spent on salaries for executive staff, almost £2.2 million on consultants, £2.3 million in legal fees, £9.5 million on designers and £161,400 building a website.

    The charity was made to pay back a series of private donations after pulling the plug on the project in late 2017. It repaid £3,200 to a donor who won a charity auction to play table tennis with Mr Johnson, which never happened.

    A donation of almost £2.3 million was repaid to Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charity established by Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York. Another donor who was repaid £33,000 wrote to the charity to say that it was the “most bogus and irresponsible shambles I have ever had the misfortune to get involved in”, the documents show.

    After all the cockups Boris Johnson has made as London Mayor, he walks about without taking any responsibility, when in my opinion he shouldn't be allowed in a public office post again.

    Has he had a good track record in any job? Has he ever taken responsibility? He is the Teflon man. Does what he wants, says what he wants and ends up getting a promotion. 
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    Yep and £161,000 on this website: http://www.gardenbridgetrust.org/. 

    Which, BTW, was done on WordPress :joy:

  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    I’m amazed he agreed to the cable car. Didn’t begin with B.

    Boris Bikes (agreed by Ken?) 
    Boris Bridge


    He must have done something else as mayor but I can’t remember it. 
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Boris Banned Bendy Buses.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    edited February 2019
    Bought Boris Buses backdoor buggered because Boris banned busconductors 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Wally Wanted Wildcat Watercanons 
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,365
    Alwaysneil said:
    I’m amazed he agreed to the cable car. Didn’t begin with B.

    Boris Bikes (agreed by Ken?) 
    Boris Bridge


    He must have done something else as mayor but I can’t remember it. 



    Airport in the sea. Boris island, millions spent on waffle.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    he didn’t actually do the airport though, doesn’t count. Would have had to incorporate. Boris Beach to have made it. 
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,365
    Alwaysneil said:
    he didn’t actually do the airport though, doesn’t count. Would have had to incorporate. Boris Beach to have made it. 
    Water cannons that were not legal in this country. 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    edited February 2019
    Oops got that wrong see below.

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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    edited February 2019
    Boris’s BritaIn 🇬🇧 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    Alwaysneil said:
    I’m amazed he agreed to the cable car. Didn’t begin with B.

    Boris Bikes (agreed by Ken?) 
    Boris Bridge


    He must have done something else as mayor but I can’t remember it. 
    For heavens sake. You have forgotten that he has made West Ham an overhead-free club at our (continuing) expense?. There is a thread about it :-) Claimed that we would get back the £323m to refit it to Brady's spec because it would operate at a profit. It is losing £12m a year and you are picking up the tab. The arrangement is known as Boris Bollocks.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Ah yes Brady Boris
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    edited February 2019
    November 2018

    Anna_Kissed     said:
    I wonder how much public money Boris Johnson wasted during his time as mayor? 
    Were an audit of his dealings to be conducted, the scale of the waste would appall many. 
    _______________________

    Update 2019: plus (or, rather, minus) £££££ for his role in realising Br€x!t
  • IT_Andy
    IT_Andy Posts: 477
    One of his last mistakes was agreeing to build the expensive cycle paths along the Thames Embankment, knowing the fact the road was going to be dug up for new sewage pipes the followng year.  Also the buses he introduced had millions spent on replacing windows that didn't open. They also cost £350,000 each, which was £50,000 more than a standard bus and the batteries were too expensive to replace, the list goes on.

  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Well i like him.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    soapy_jones said:
    Well i like him.
    Jolly good. Why?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    edited February 2019
    Without making this political as I am referring to two Tories, it reminds you about what is broken in this country. Boris has a brother who is 100 times more able, competent and above all more honest than he is and yet he is the one that gets the top jobs. He is absolutely hated by many in his own party.

    The West Ham gift to Tory donors, the Garden Bridge, That poor woman stuck in an Iranian Jail - when is this git and cheat going to get what is coming to him?
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,055
    Alwaysneil said:
    Boris’s BritaIn 🇬🇧 


    Have said it it many times...they should have left the nasty prick up there!!
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,055
    charltonkeston said:
    Alwaysneil said:
    he didn’t actually do the airport though, doesn’t count. Would have had to incorporate. Boris Beach to have made it. 
    Water cannons that were not legal in this country. 
    Bought for £320,000...sold for scrap, unused, at a cost of £300,000

    This idiot costs as much as some dodgy figure on the side of a bus!! 
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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,970
    May I propose we build the Boris Gibbet and hang the twat?
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    IT_Andy said:
    Confirmed today that the project wasted £43m of public cash.

    Info from The Times

    An investigation into the Garden Bridge Trust’s finances showed that the organisation spent almost £418,000 hosting a fundraising dinner in Battersea, southwest London, to drum up support for the project.

    Documents released by Transport for London (TfL) show that just over £1.7 million was spent on salaries for executive staff, almost £2.2 million on consultants, £2.3 million in legal fees, £9.5 million on designers and £161,400 building a website.

    The charity was made to pay back a series of private donations after pulling the plug on the project in late 2017. It repaid £3,200 to a donor who won a charity auction to play table tennis with Mr Johnson, which never happened.

    A donation of almost £2.3 million was repaid to Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charity established by Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York. Another donor who was repaid £33,000 wrote to the charity to say that it was the “most bogus and irresponsible shambles I have ever had the misfortune to get involved in”, the documents show.

    After all the cockups Boris Johnson has made as London Mayor, he walks about without taking any responsibility, when in my opinion he shouldn't be allowed in a public office post again.

    418k on a dinner?
    What were they eating? Gold bullion? 

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