A good and politically astute move. Perhaps even belated given what happened in #Uxbridge.

#ukpolitics #ULEZ #MayorOfLondon #sadiqkhan

Sadiq Khan expands London Ulez grant and scrappage scheme

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/03/sadiq-khan-expands-london-ulez-grant-and-scrappage-scheme?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

> Capital’s mayor moves to reduce political fallout over scheme’s extension after Tory byelection win in Uxbridge

A good and politically astute move. Perhaps even belated given what happened in #Uxbridge.

#ukpolitics #ULEZ #MayorOfLondon #sadiqkhan

Sadiq Khan expands London Ulez grant and scrappage scheme

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/03/sadiq-khan-expands-london-ulez-grant-and-scrappage-scheme?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

> Capital’s mayor moves to reduce political fallout over scheme’s extension after Tory byelection win in Uxbridge

Pink News: Susan Hall: Tory London mayor candidate is ‘hard-right’ Trump fan who wants trans women out of sports https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/susan-hall-tory-london-mayor-candidate-trump-gender-critical/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #ConservativeParty #MayorofLondon #SusanHall #News #UK

Susan Hall will be the next Conservative non-Mayor of London - official.

#MayorOfLondon #Conservatives #SusanHall

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66243332

@fkamiah17

Not a good idea to annoy the #serjeantatarms ! Mind you it does make a change from them (CCHQ) shortlisting a candidate for #mayoroflondon with - it seems - an idiosyncratic notion of what a "hands on" approach was supposed to mean!

@megmac

In central #london there appears to be a swath of planning applications to convert the more marginal commercial real estate to mixed and/or other use. This seems a logical response and may well find favour with both the relevant #boroughs and the #mayorofLondon - since May 2022 just one #localcouncil there remains #conservative !

@gabrielesvelto

A slight trace of the #berlusconi connection in #labour may have been present in the opposition to the selection of #sadiqkhan as candidate for #mayorofLondon in 2015.

Natasha Asghar - Aelod Seneddol Gorllewin Gorllewin Llundain?

#NatashaAsghar #MayorOfLondon #Conservatives

https://nation.cymru/news/natasha-asghar-under-fire-from-fellow-welsh-tories-over-london-mayor-bid/

Pink News: Sadiq Khan backs calls for public inquiry into Met Police handling of Stephen Port murders https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/28/sadiq-khan-met-police-stephen-port-public-inquiry/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #MetropolitanPolice #MayorofLondon #StephenPort #Exclusive #SadiqKhan #Crime #News #UK

A note of caution!

Experience shows that a journalist/presenter with a consistent record of lying - and being dismissed for doing so - may manage nonetheless to have a highly successful career albeit to the serious detriment of wider society.

It is not so long ago that an individual with such a record managed to be elected #mayorofLondon twice and go on later to be #PrimeMinister

The world is still coming to terms with the legacy of #BorisJohnson

@CloudyMrs @helenczerski

#Westminster has been rather well funded historically by #centralgovernment since the days of the dreadful #LadyPorter so not really analogous. #TransportforLondon has had a really poor deal - agreed to by the previous #mayorofLondon #BorisJohnson - but is being funded by a sharp rise in the #precept for #counciltax levied across #London. #Devolution to #London considerable but has come at rather a stiff price.

@CloudyMrs @helenczerski

Not sure but I suspect that the fact there is only #uktory council left in the entire area of the former #LCC area may have something to do with it - and of course the #mayorofLondon has been #Labour since 2016 - which must help.

@GeorgeAylett

What is more the processes that led to the initial choice of #sadiqkhan to stand for #mayorofLondon and #JeremyCorbyn to be leader of the #LabourParty were very much entwined. Neither was the #establishment candidate. The #establishment would have preferred others - someone linked indirectly to #Berlusconi in the case of #london! Both benefited from the surge in #Labour membership immediately after the #2015 #GeneralElection.

@GeorgeAylett
Except that #sadiqkhan is in a very much stronger position than the unfortunate Frank Dobson ever was.

#Labour in #London chose him through an entirely reputable process. He has served as #mayorofLondon for seven years already.

And just look at his enemies - not just the #Conservatives but also #Trump

It would take a major splintering of the left of centre vote for him to be defeated by a #Conservative

Yet #Corbyn standing could cause just that.

@GeorgeAylett
Taking down a successful #Labour #mayorofLondon in order to spite other people - some of whom almost certainly wanted a very different candidate the first time round ((in 2015/2016) - would be worse than unjust. It is likely to be highly counter-productive as well.

@GeorgeAylett
This has to be a seriously bad idea! The most likely consequence would be the election of a #Conservative #mayorofLondon next year in place of #sadiqkhan given that the #Conservatives have abolished the #supplementaryvote in favour of #firstpastthepost for #elected #mayors

This looks like a combination of kicking the unfortunate cat in lieu of anyone else and cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

Millions of Londoners do not deserve any of this!

@ERDonnachie

Do not forget #sadiqkhan who paved the way by being elected #mayorofLondon in May 2016!

There is a tale to be told in time of the many obstacles that had to be overcome - including within the #LabourParty - but not perhaps in the run up to rather important #Localelections !

Please someone make saddiq Khan stop. #mayoroflondon

Cleaner air is coming to outer London! 👏 👏 👏

The #MayorofLondon has today announced the expansion of the #ULEZ to outer #London in a move that will bring cleaner air to *5 million* more Londoners.

Thank you @SadiqKhan 🙏👏

#CleanAir #London #Ulez #Chocked #AirPollution #CleanLondon #Ulez4Health

⬇️https://www.google.com/searchq=ulez+sadiq+khan+youtube&rlz=1C1GCEB_enGB1016GB1016&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZkr-Lv8r7AhXuhP0HHYnKBvYQ_AUoAnoECAQQBA&biw=1368&bih=801&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8f621cb3,vid:YS5s0OmrC3M