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As Mayor of London you claimed legacy projects from your predecessor as your own, you squandered millions of pounds on a Garden Bridge that was never built, millions on a cable car that was hardly used and bought a water cannon that couldn’t be used.
It’s time Boris Johnson was held to account for his record as Mayor of London. Here comes (a long) thread...
Boris Johnson spent a whopping £46m of taxpayers’ money on the Garden Bridge without a single brick ever getting laid.
Boris Johnson spent £60m on construction, and £500,000 a month on running The Emirates Airline - the most expensive cable car ever built - in 2015. An investigation showed that it had only 4 daily users.
Johnson spent £300m on the Routemaster Bus with an additional £11.4m spent just on design and building the first eight. With 800 built, each cost around £375k - nearly twice the cost of a conventional double decker. They also emit 74% more harmful particles than the old buses.
Remember Boris Island Airport, which would have cost £100billion and caused significant environmental problems? He continued to call for the idea even after the Airports Commission had rejected the plans.
As @tom_watson reminded us this morning (as if we could forget) Boris Johnson campaigned on a platform of saving the London Underground's ticket offices but closed every one.
Boris Johnson campaigned against Londoners paying "the highest fares in Europe" and yet oversaw an increase of fares by an average of 4.2 per cent. He also pledged not to allow the congestion charge to go above £8... It rose to £11.50 on his watch. 
Decisions taken by Boris Johnson to convert the Olympic Stadium in Stratford cost taxpayers almost £300m, while the stadium operator has been saddled with annual losses of about £20m. Sadiq had to clean up the mess. theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec…
Johnson claimed during his 2012 election that robberies were down 16.3% under his mayoralty - but independent analysis shows they actually rose by 18.8%. Crime started rising nationally in 2014 and continued to rise during his time in office - including an increase in homicides.
Boris Johnson left London’s housing market propped up expensive properties and a lack of genuinely affordable homes. The number of social homes he funded reduced from 1,687 in 2012, to just 336 in his final year in office. He shamefully left zero social homes when Sadiq came in.
Boris Johnson prioritised building multi-million pound penthouses and luxury flats that only the very wealthiest could afford, leaving most Londoners out. Only 13% of homes given permission in his final year in office were affordable and rough sleeping doubled on his watch.
Boris Johnson doesn’t own his failures. Even now he claims he “took London through the riots” in 2011. In reality he had to be shamed into coming home from holiday as the violence escalated.
Boris Johnson may be the gif that keeps on giving, but his record as Mayor speaks for itself. That’s before we get onto the “bum-boys”, “piccaninnies”, “letter-boxes” and everything else in his back catalogue. This is not a joke. He is not fit to be Prime Minister.
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