Last week, Guido shone a light on London Night Czar Amy Lamé’s rather conspicuous six-week sick leave. Despite her inability to respond to work emails, she miraculously found the strength to host her weekly BBC radio show. Whilst also mustering the energy to keep her garden in tip-top shape…
Guido is happy to report that Lamé seems to have recovered from her illness just in time to…take her annual leave. Making the most of the summer on her £132,000 salary…
UPDATE: It appears Lamé will be coming back from her holiday at the end of August. A month-long annual leave…
Sadiq Khan’s Night Tsar, Amy Lamé, who’s raking in a whopping £132,000 a year, is on “unplanned sick leave” from the GLA. This leave is said to have been going on for at least six weeks with no return in sight. Yet, miraculously, she’s still managing to present her BBC Radio 6 shows every Saturday and Sunday. She’s not exactly lying low—her Instagram is bursting with snaps of her gardening and promoting her BBC show. All this on the taxpayer’s dime…
While Lamé is busy flaunting her “sick leave” lifestyle, she’s been a no-show at two crucial public meetings about London’s nightlife. Meanwhile, the number of pub closures in London hit a record high last year. Guido did contact City Hall for a comment. No wonder the phrase “Lame London” was coined after her…
UPDATE: A spokesperson for the GLA said: “As is the case with all GLA employees, we don’t discuss the individual circumstances of members of staff.”
While Khan’s ‘Lame London’ continues to disappoint many party-goers as the so-called 24-hour city streets shut at 11pm, Tory Mayoral candidate Susan Hall is fighting the good fight on behalf of the revellers. It’s an issue close to her heart, admitting that she is a bit of a “raver” herself…
Susan tells Guido:
“Extending the Night Tube will be a massive boost for partygoers and local venues. I have enjoyed my fair share of clubbing and it is only right that we make it safer and easier for everyone to enjoy London’s fantastic night scene.”
She also pledged to go out on the “razzle” with head of the Night Time Industries Association Micheal Kill if she gets in as Mayor. Guido would look forward to seeing that…
Sadiq Khan has today appointed his new ‘Night Czar’ – Amy Lame will be paid £35,000 a year for working only 2.5 days a week. So who is she? Lame says the Tories are “scum“, accused David Cameron of using his “dead son as a pawn”, and once tweeted that George Osborne is a “c**t”. Why is Sadiq giving this woman thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money?
UPDATE: Lame has also tweeted on several occasions ‘joking’ about her regret that the Queen is still alive:
Oh dear.
