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Livingstone has an abrasive personality but his prior record as London Mayor is good. He was responsible for pushing hard for the Olympics long before Labour became interested, he implemented the Oyster Card system and other methods of speeding up the boarding of London buses, he introduced the congestion charge scheme which has helped reduce the ridiculous level of traffic in central London.
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Your argument is circular - if people don't agree with you and recognise they are 'forelock tuggers', it is because they are 'forelock tuggers'.... |
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Yes, he pushed for the Olympics (and deserves credit for that), and yes he did introduce the Oyster (which also deserves credit). However, he singularly failed to get widespread adoption of Oyster beyond TFL, and blamed the then government for not giving him the power to compel the train companies to introduce it. A power which (AFAIK) Boris still doesn't have, yet he managed to get the train companies to start accepting Oyster. Ken also ensured that the Unions had massive power at TFL Something which is not good for any of us (not even the union members as their actions have only increased TFL's desire to automate as much as possible). He |
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Having suffered his dubious political efforts since the days of the GLC, I truly hope this is the last we ever see of him. Over the years he's chucked our money about in support of all sorts of dubious causes with little or no accountability. Whatever credit he deserves for his role in the Olympics is more than negated by so much else of what he's said and done over the years. ---------- Post added at 10:59 ---------- Previous post was at 10:46 ---------- Quote:
Good old Ken eh? Straight as you like..... :rolleyes: |
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So I think you have to admit he does show a lot of interest in what's going on south of the river. It's just that he only seems to do it when it suits his immediate political ends and he can employ his selective presentation of the facts to try to embarrass Tory opponents. How very odd.... :rolleyes: |
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You appear to be 'projecting' again - stating as fact something you think people are thinking, rather than what they actually think and say.... |
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We must never ever return to the spend spend spend days of the party that got us in the state we are in now. |
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Two points to clear up, to have driver-less trains on the underground is very dangerous, what happens if there is a trains crash, or trains breaks down and there is a signal fault and a smashes into each other.
You need a train personnel on the train for safety reasons. The DLR might be an 'underground train' technically, BUT this was brought into service due to Canary Wharf being built, It has only been extended due to it popularity, and there is no underground system near it. |
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Ken Livingstone seems to have lost the election. The media seems to think so and apparently there has been a private admission from 'Labour sources' that this is the case.
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Might not be. Still likely to be a Johnson victory but apparently it's getting close. The districts in London were not coming in evenly, so those favouring Livingstone had yet to be counted. It will depend on the 2nd preference votes
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I really, really don't want that lying, sanctimonious, two faced, chancer to get in......:D |
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