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:
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…
Sadiq Khan’s at it again with his latest genius plan: let prisoners jump the housing queue. Speaking at a Times conference yesterday, London’s Mayor bemoaned the “big shortage of housing in London” and proposed his brilliant fix – give criminals a head start. Khan argued we need an “honest conversation” about letting some prisoners “jump in the queue to get housing to avoid them reoffending again.” Handing out houses to freed criminals isn’t exactly the magic fix to stop prisons from overflowing…
Nigel Farage was quick to blast the Mayor, tweeting: “Sadiq Khan wants free housing for criminals and illegal migrants. And he wants you to pay for it all.” Prioritising criminals over hard-working, law-abiding citizens. That’ll go down well with the public, no doubt…
Sadiq Khan’s disastrous “Night Tsar” Amy Lamé is taking it easy after miraculously recovering from “unplanned sick leave” and immediately going on holiday in August. She returned to work this month, just in time for yesterday’s 3-hour meeting of the GLA Economy, Culture and Skills Committee meeting on the capital’s night-time economy. And yet Lamé was – you guessed it – not present…
As night-time businesses shutter up at a rate of about a thousand per year some Assembly Members are trying to figure out what to do. Their meeting took views and evidence from numerous interested parties as part of the committee’s investigation into “the impact of existing Mayoral policies and initiatives aimed at supporting and invigorating London’s night-time economy, and what progress the Mayor has made in achieving his vision of London becoming a ’24-hour city’.” You’d have thought Lamé would be interested – was she too busy picking up her £133,000 pay cheque?
Sadiq Khan is asking for a £25 billion handout from the government to pay for his vaunted election promises – he might want to cut some chaff from his bloated GLA bureaucracy first. Sacking Amy Lamé would be a start…
An FoI dispatched from Guido has now revealed that the GLA is stuffed to the hilt with woke jobs that feature words ranging from “diversity” and “inclusion” to “climate“, “wellbeing“, and “race”. Taxpayers might raise an eyebrow when they find out their cash is spent on five “Senior Policy and Project Officers” responsible only for EDI, an “Equality Diversity and Inclusion Specialist“, an “Equality and Fairness Manager” and a “Culture Values and Wellbeing Specialist” to name just a few. There are a total of 70 woke positions being kept in frappucinos by the taxpayer…
The GLA is funding these positions to the tune of a whopping £3,425,000 – and that’s not including currently vacant posts like the crucial “EDI and Culture Adviser.” This lot are laughing all the way to the bank…
After managing to get 2% of his targeted affordable housebuilding projects started, Sadiq Khan is giving up. The mayor is pushing Labour for permission to impose rent controls on the capital – requests Labour is minded to accept. A long-running campaign of his…
An act of parliament would be needed to hand over the keys to the rental market. Rent controls fail wherever they are implemented, most recently in Scotland, where rents rose higher than anywhere in the UK by a large margin after their imposition. They went so badly in Berlin that the courts declared them unconstitutional. Caving to socialist impulses at the first sign of pressure is standard…
