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The Government led by Boris Johnson has given a damehood to Joanna Lumley, originator of the failed #gardenbridge project which cost taxpayers £43 million 
Boris Johnson’s 2013 note to Joanna Lumley
The citation for Joanna Lumley’s damehood is “for services to drama, to entertainment and to charitable causes”. She was a trustee of #gardenbridge trust which was wound up after incurring £43 million bill picked up by public purse without delivering anything to show for it.
I've spent 5 yrs investigating Boris Johnson's #gardenbridge, a self-inflicted disaster riven with dishonesty which cost taxpayers £43,000,000. I'd be happy to discuss my findings in detail with any MP @AmberRuddHR @Nsoames @NickyMorgan01 @damiangreen theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Here's a short attempt at a recap architectsjournal.co.uk/opinion/heads-…
People asking how £43m can have been lost. Answer: we STILL don't know. Know GB Trust spent £418,000 on a gala fundraising event in Battersea, £160k on a website & £1.3m on Thames surveys & a ‘careful search for unexploded ordnance’! This doc says more content.tfl.gov.uk/gbt-costs-brea… …
A further £5 million of public money will be paid to the #GardenBridge Trust to meet the failed charity's winding-up costs, including reimbursing some of the donors to the controversial Thames footbridge project.
london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9832
london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9832
List of #GardenBridge donors to be repaid as at October 2018
!!!!!!!!!!!! "Table tennis with Boris" - taxpayers will repay £3,200 to winner of #Gardenbridge auction as "prize not delivered" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prompted by an @IlluminatedRiv post (& a couple of days of #Thames related news), found myself looking last night at #FrostFair pictures. This first from 1677 (source: @MuseumofLondon) below #LondonBridge & frankly a bit hairy in places - look at the people leaving at the stairs
Here’s another picture by the same artist, this time from 1684 showing stalls set up on the ice (funnily enough in about the location proposed for the ill-fated #GardenBridge)
What’s really striking about both of these late 17th century images is the depth to which the river has frozen - how COLD must it have been?? The view below is by Thomas Wyke, again from the winter of 1683-4.
IMO that TfL site is a #DeadLetterOffice saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.com/2017/06/london… report to @metpoliceuk ASAP beta.met.police.uk/report/report-…
and report it to John Trayner MD @TheGoAheadGroup London cc'ing TfL's Bus Bosses, @willnorman @CarolineRussell (of @LondonAssembly) @StopKillingCycl & me. The only way to ensure TfL & CityHall don't just #CoverUp for TfL Contractors' #SafetyFail is to shine a light on it.
In my experience, it's clear that TfL => Trade Association set up to protect its Bus & Tram Contractors instead of regulating their Safety Performance. Read @CarolinePidgeon's & @KeithPrinceAM's MQTs sometime & you'll see how far City Hall & TfL go to protect them from #Scrutiny
