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Sorry @SadiqKhan, but this is rubbish.

The bailout you first asked for was 2x the amount accounted for by lost revenue due to covid. You knew you had a blackhole to fill.

No wonder the Gov insisted on a review of your finances.

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The Transport Secretary confirmed today in the HoC that the Gov did not ask you to increase the Congestion Charge.

Even your own spokesman confirmed it was your decision to increase it on Friday, presumably before your spin operation kicked into action.

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And just take responsibility for rising fares. You signed off a TfL Business Plan in Dec 2019 that ended your partial fares freeze anyway.

Why? Because it didn't work. It cost £640m and subsidised travel for tourists, while travelcard costs for London commuters shot up.

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This is a lie @SadiqKhan.

As you well know (and as Gov have confirmed), you were not forced to increase the C-charge. You were only asked to make proposals to review.

If the Gov wanted to force you to increase the c-charge, they would have done so. But they didn't.

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Anybody who has spent any time in Government knows what "proposals" mean.

It means consultation. Cost-analysis.

It doesn't mean you were "forced" to do it during lockdown, when people should be avoiding public transport.

So where are your proposals?

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They don't exist. why?

Because instead of working with the Government on this, you chose to play politics.

You decided to go ahead and immediately increase the c-charge yourself.

Even Gov ministers were shocked when they heard.

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To be clear, it was @SadiqKhan's decision, and his alone, to increase the Congestion Charge from £11.50 to £15, and expand it to 7 days a week.

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The Department for Transport have confirmed that the government did not force @SadiqKhan or TfL to raise the congestion charge as a condition of approving the bailout.

To suggest they did, is a lie.

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Even a spokesman for the Mayor of London said today that the government and Khan agreed that the charge should be reviewed, but that it was the mayor’s decision to increase it.

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Shaun Bailey
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As expected, @SadiqKhan is now running to the Government for a bailout of TfL, where Khan serves as Chairman.

On one level it makes sense - the coronavirus is hammering fare revenues.

But that’s not all of the story. Far from it. #thread 1/12
When Sadiq Khan became Mayor, TfL had healthy finances. That he is now asking the Government for a bailout of £3.2 bn - i.e. far in excess of the impact of COVID - is evidence of four years of bad management, not simply the impacts of this horrible disease.

What do I mean? 2/12
In 2014,  TfL was told by the government that it would have to become ‘self-sufficient’.

The then Mayor, one @BorisJohnson, identified £12bn of savings to start. Another £4bn would have put the service on a sustainable footing over the long haul. 3/12
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