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Has done well with housing and is to be much commended for ULEZ. But this isn't so good. Worth reading the thread.

Basically, the capacity to deliver all the free school meals costs money, especially in well off (more Tory) boroughs with relatively low numbers on free school meals. If you're a school in say Newham with high FSM numbers already it's probably easier to add a bit of a capacity to it (though that won't always be true). Had richer boroughs been carrying this capacity spare, they'd have (quite rightly) been told by their internal auditors that they were wasting money.

How does this get resolved?

Turns out Kahn’s sticking with ulez could have even bigger benefits - new research shows air pollution is linked to antibiotic resistance

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... SApp_Other

I mentioned this before. Free school meals (without funding) is a shit sandwich for the boroughs. (edit- apologies, right tweet up now)

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:06 am Turns out Kahn’s sticking with ulez could have even bigger benefits - new research shows air pollution is linked to antibiotic resistance

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... SApp_Other

That's not going to swing the anti big Pharma mob.

I’ll be voting for him once I get out of my current hospital appointment.

Seeing lots of stuff like this, often with implied attacks on Sadiq Khan who'd definitely have allowed it if it was Muslims.

It's very obvious bollocks. It's for office workers to have their lunch in their lunch hour, with (at most) somebody playing a bit of music. When people are done, they go back to their office. It's not built for a thousand boozers to show up. Where would they all piss for starters? Most likely all over the locality. Perhaps somebody will put up a screen for the Olympics for the office workers, and we'll get "OK for fancy synchronised swimming, but not football, eh Khan!"

I can't bear this shit. Khan was actually at a mass event showing the football FFS. Isn't it more likely the cops and ambulance service don't want to clean up carnage again?

Probably because a lot of people went home to watch it, or went to a local "Fan Zone" why stay in Central London all night

Somebody's suggested that the space is privately owned. The guy from the TPA posting there must be livid.

Watchman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 4:44 pm Probably because a lot of people went home to watch it, or went to a local "Fan Zone" why stay in Central London all night

Or went to a local pub in London to watch it.

There's a similar silly argument about transport going on. Khan ought to have just run the tube all night, and rearranged engineering work on the off chance that England would get to the final and win after penalties. Well, that didn't happen anyway. But if it had happened, it would have been bad and Khan's fault.

Life goes on in London during a crucial England game. The universal popularity of football is one of the great myths of our time.

Eliot Keck. Fancy being named after half a pair of underpants.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:04 pm Life goes on in London during a crucial England game. The universal popularity of football is one of the great myths of our time.

I'm old enough to remember Italia 90 and Euro 96. We seemed to manage to watch those without big outdoor screens, and I don't recall Mrs Thatcher or John Major or John Gummer (with department responsibility for London in 1996) getting it in the neck.

I read some years ago that England is run by the Puritanical fear that someone, somewhere is enjoying themselves. Now it seems that we could all be enjoying ourselves, all the time, if a Muslim wasn't stopping us.

He implemented the Night Tube for Friday and Saturday nights, which is a pretty major plus for going out compared with having to get one or two night buses. If the city is "dying", it may not be Sadiq Khan's fault.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 4:52 pm

Watchman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 4:44 pm Probably because a lot of people went home to watch it, or went to a local "Fan Zone" why stay in Central London all night

Or went to a local pub in London to watch it.

There's a similar silly argument about transport going on. Khan ought to have just run the tube all night, and rearranged engineering work on the off chance that England would get to the final and win after penalties. Well, that didn't happen anyway. But if it had happened, it would have been bad and Khan's fault.

If the tube had run all night, engineering work would have been cancelled and many people who do that work would have had no pay as they are contractors to the companies doing the work and only paid when they work. The headline would then have been that Khan cost people £300 a night in lost pay.

"Khan" could arguably have laid on more free events, but I don't think a 15,000 event at the O2 is nothing either. Nor the action of a man who hates England or whatever he's supposed to do.

I've met him - he is more English than I am...

He's got a good sense of humour, I gather.

I didn't see much of that, we were canvassing.

One of the things I dislike about football is the sense of entitlement supporters now have. Whether it's drunken lads on trains or the It's Coming Home generation expecting everything to stop for the footie, there's a belief that we can do what we want, where we want and everyone else has to make allowances.