To think that Kier Starmer shouldn't be welcoming extremists into Britain?

Classic? You mean you’re often corrected as a consequence of bleeting incorrect information?

Classic!!

...Blaming Labour for something that Sunak did 15 years later... The Tories allowed costs to spiral out of control, which them led to Sunak cancelling, but not before he/Cons had spaffed 29 billion up the wall.

Like i said "but Labour have spent 6m ....."

The prisoner in solitary hasnt been given any money

Labour started HS2 proposals.

Polling shows its been a success.

£6m cost out of a total budget of over £20billion.... if only the Tories were quite so upset about £29billion wasted on the cancelled HS2 line..... we can but hope....

At least we have the Suffragette Line not the Transgender Line.😀

Susan Hall was just unbelievable!

It didn’t help that the Tory candidate, Susan Hall, was a head-banger who was completely lacking in credibility.

However, I don’t think Khan is generally as hated in London as the right-wing tabloids make out. He’s done some good things - I love the way he’s improved air quality, for example. Equally, some of what he’s done hasn’t been great. But he’s competent, overall, even if you don’t agree with some of his specific policies. Which is more than can be said for a lot of politicians.

Yes. It will. I don't think Starmer will survive it.

Hopefully it will be a real wake up call for Labour. It will be interesting to see how things stand by 2029 for all the parties.

Whichever Labour leader loses that much in Wales after so long will feel it in terms of party support. It’ll be interesting to see what they do.

As a Welsh person living in Wales I think it will be good for Wales to have a change. Labour has run the Senedd since its inception. If the polls are right it is looking like a left leaning coalition, most probably PC/Labour-under the new system winning a majority would be very difficult for any party.

Khan has wasted millions of London taxpayer's money with e.g. the ridiculous renaming of overground lines which cause utter confusion (and I am a born and bred Londoner of many years); also the exorbitant sums on policing marches in central London on such a frequent basis that it is virtually a no go area leaving tourists in complete bewilderment

Protest is legal in this country, Khan has no choice, it would take Parliament to change the law.

The Mayor doesn't run TfL day to day, they decided to change the names and colours of the line, as one colour (orange) was confusing as the network got bigger.

Maybe things will change now Labour are in nationally, the same way Wales always used to vote Labour but now it looks like a wipeout.

The turn out last time was 40.5% which suggests many people either didn't turn up or, like me, put none of the above on the voting paper. Khan got 44% and the Tory candidate 33% I believe.

One reason he got elected again is the fact that the electorate were fed up with 14 years of Tory government and thus continued to vote for a Labour Mayor. The exception was obviously Boris Johnson.

Khan has wasted millions of London taxpayer's money with e.g. the ridiculous renaming of overground lines which cause utter confusion (and I am a born and bred Londoner of many years); also the exorbitant sums on policing marches in central London on such a frequent basis that it is virtually a no go area leaving tourists in complete bewilderment.

Anyway I digress (sorry @Twiglets1 ) back to the subject of the thread!

It couldn't possibly be because many Londoners support and like Khan, could it? I mean would he really have got in a third time (despite the best efforts of the rw press)if he was that bad?

I voted for him and would again if I was still in London.

Well tbf it has reduced traffic, without it, traffic levels would be far higher surely?

Levels are higher now because of the EV exemption.

On the actual charge, other countries also have high charges but London faces costs from the actual congestion itself.

I've voted for independent candidates in the last two elections. I don't see this changing any time soon.

That neither the Tories nor any other party put up a good enough alternative. I for one found nobody else to vote for last time. I suspect I was far from alone.

Yet he keeps being elected. What does that tell you?

Oh Lord, I need coffee - I seem to have taken to prophecy! I meant 2003.

Yes it was. But it's Khan who has increased the CC to great sums ever since he became mayor. It is a gravy train indeed as the vehicular traffic in London is as bad as ever.

Wasn’t Livingstone the mayor when it was introduced in 2093?

While I agree with the rest of your post @Alexandra2001 'Speeding enforcement service' isn't really what the police are doing as I suspect a lot of that is done by automation. They manage to send police officers to arrest Graham Lineham at an airport and no less than six officers to arrest two parents for their rightful complaints against a school.
As I posted above the cost, both in officers and money, in London at least is down to constant protests in our capital city organised by groups that are anti British.