Co-conspirators may remember Sadiq Khan’s vanity jolly last month to New York with the C40 Cities “Climate Leadership Group.” Khan claims he went to promote “London as a leading destination for business, tourism and sport.” He actually went on a boat ride to talk about voles…

Guido fired a few FOIs City Hall’s way to see how much the taxpayer was paying this time round. The GLA spent £3,683 on flights to New York for some of Khan’s retinue of a whopping eight people. Once they landed they managed to rack up a £9,060 bill on hotel rooms, which the GLA claims “is reflective of the very high demand for hotel rooms in New York when the UN General Assembly is in session.” You can feel the British public’s sympathy pouring out as we speak…

Khan and his crew were spread across three different hotels. Guido leaves it to co-conspirators to guess which the Mayor stayed in…

Above is the NH Collection on Madison Avenue. Prices range from $400 to $1,800 a night..

The Hilton Garden Inn by Central Park. Prices from $500 per night upwards…

The Aura Hotel on Times Square. From about $335 per night…

Khan’s hotel rooms, as well as his business class flight tickets, were paid for by the C40 Cities group, of which Khan is a co-chairman. That’s the same organisation of whose main proposal is to limit the public’s air travel to “one short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 2 years per person.” Khan’s already exceeded his two-year quota by 3.7 times with his free 5,570km flight to the Big Apple. Poor Sadiq will have to sit in London until 2032 to compensate…

The Sphere venue has found a new home since London Mayor Sadiq Khan unceremoniously blocked plans for it to be built in London. It will now be built in the United Arab Emirates, bringing $2.3 billion of foreign direct investment to the Middle East that could have gone to London. This comes just days after Labour’s so-called ‘Investment’ Summit. Did Khan not get the memo…

Climate crusader Khan rejected the glowing ball because it would cause too much “light pollution” and had a lack of other green credentials. Despite the fact the venue could have boosted the capital’s economy by £2.5 billion, brought in £50 million a year to local businesses and created 1,200 jobs. After Khan gave Sphere Entertainment the cold shoulder, the company said it would instead concentrate on the “many forward-thinking cities that are eager to bring this technology to their communities”. And they have…

TfL have seized more than 1,400 cars in the last 12 months from those who dare to defy Khan’s crippling £12.50-a-day ULEZ toll. Khan has been revving up the so-called success of the scheme, despite its first report admitting it’s impossible to gauge its true effectiveness—and even then, the numbers were nothing short of a car crash. Now the scheme is choking the poorest the hardest, with TfL exhaustively raking in over £25 million through relentless bailiff action…

Those unwilling—or unable—to pay the extortionate fines are being left in the dust, with their cars clamped, towed away, and sold off. In the last year alone, nearly 800 of those cars were sold, rolling in £710,000 cash for TfL. Still, unpaid ULEZ fines continue to fuel TfL debt. Neil Garratt, City Hall Conservatives Leader slammed the scheme:

“Last month I forced Khan to reveal that TfL now has £376 million in unpaid ULEZ fines – shockingly that’s 83% of TfL’s total bad debt. Today we find out that they’ve recouped just 6% of it. We constantly hear from Sadiq that TfL desperately needs more taxpayer money to make the numbers add up – perhaps if he wasn’t building up so much bad debt and building his budget on fantasy economics he wouldn’t be in this situation.”

Khan’s London continues to go up in smoke…

The row over Taylor Swift’s concert freebies has been hilariously extended for another day. Labour was forced to defend lobbying the police for a motorcade for Swift while accepting freebie tickets from her record label…

The optics weren’t as bad as they could have been yesterday seeing as everyone clarified that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper hadn’t taken freebie tickets to the concert – of the two, only Sadiq Khan had. Sky News’ Sam Coates reported last night that Ed Balls had though – and brought his wife along…

Now it’s clear that both Khan and Cooper received free premium tickets and pressed security services to do Swift a favour. Cooper didn’t declare them at the time as they fell under the threshold, though she now has. Was probably worth fessing up to when the first story broke…

Jonathan Reynolds is up on Good Morning Britain soon to answer an interviewer’s questions. Guido can think of just the man for the job…

UPDATE: Nandy yesterday, of course, was briefed that Cooper “didn’t attend the concerts.” Top quality briefing that…

Lamé will quit at the end of this month and says she feels it’s “the right time” to “move on”, and that it’s been “a real privilege to serve Londoners”. To fail Londoners for eight years…

In her tenure she has:

• Overseen London falling down the rankings to become the worst night out in any UK city.
• Parroted Sadiq Khan propaganda lines while in a politically impartial role.
• Scored a disproportionate pay rise to £160,000. Almost the PM’s salary…
• Taken “sick leave” while actually presenting on the BBC.
• Recovered from illness to immediately go on annual leave.
• Skived committee meetings intended to fix London’s nightlife.

A record unmatched…

UPDATE: Guido hears from GLA sources that since returning to work Lamé has been “totally MIA“. Working for London right till the end…

Sadiq Khan has once again jetted off on an eco-jolly, this time ditching the Labour conference early to rub shoulders in New York. Instead of “having fun with my friends in Liverpool”, as he said, he’s chosen the bright lights of the Big Apple to show off his green credentials. Nothing says environmental warrior quite like hopping on a plane across the Atlantic…

So inspiring to visit the Billion Oyster Project in New York today and see how they’re embracing nature to clean up the Hudson River and increase biodiversity.

Re-introducing wildlife such as water voles, eels and otters will help us to restore London’s waterways. pic.twitter.com/xcbDQ1tRIY

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) September 24, 2024

Taxpayers will be pleased to hear Khan is enjoying his latest vanity trip, this time involving a boat ride to celebrate… voles and eels – an excursion the Mayor found “so inspiring”. Perhaps less inspiring than the city he left behind, where knife crime involving large blades has doubled in the last five years…