Does Johnson Hate London? Transport For London's £1 Billion Bail Out Explained - TLDR News
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Yesterday a £1 Billion bailout for Transport for London was finally agreed, supporting the struggling transport network through continued COVID restrictions. The fight to get the funding is interesting, but maybe more interesting is what it tells us about central government's (and Johnson's) attitude towards the capital and its Mayor Sadiq Khan. So in this video we'll discuss the bail out, Johnson's objections and if Khan ruined TfL.
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Honestly, the commute between my bedroom and my living room has been a nightmare this past year.
May i take the initiative to show interest on Emirates behalf to install a cable car for said trip?
Do you need £5billion to help with that?
Have you tried moving your bed in to your living room? 😉
Any discussion on London's budget without mentioning
New York City retains *50%* of the funds it generates.
London retains *10%* of the funds it generates.
Is a failure to understand the *real* problem.
Same raging I'm not getting travel allowance
He can’t even say he left TfL in robust financing with a straight face.
Imagine if bojo had to run London in the pandemic... He's done a bad enough job of the rest of the country
This is a man who can glorify his achievements without any reference to facts.
So far, I am glad the financial costs of BoJo's ridiculous championing of Brexit have so far have fallen on groups that were Brexiteers - fisherfolk, farmers etc. Just waiting now for the car industry to start contracting, most probably up in Sunderland.
What? Boris Johnson lied?? I'm shocked and surprised. Boris is normally such a truthful and trustworthy chap... 😏
Any discussion on London's budget without mentioning
New York City retains *50%* of the funds it generates.
London retains *10%* of the funds it generates.
Is a failure to understand the *real* problem.
@@AB-zl4nh In a way, London, as painful as it is to admit this, IS the UK. So yes, I would say arguing about the city's budget is redundant, because in any case, it's worth to invest money on the country's economic powerhouse.
Johnson's economic policy is basically: "We're gonna make everyone's life shit and then blame Labour for it."
Labour is a stupid government.
@@theevilseahawk True.
Could someone please show Boris Johnson the Budget of TfL during his time and the spending he sheduled?
Do you think boris really cares about when he has been caught out on a lie
Oh he knows.
he knows. he is simply lying. the surprising part is, that still so many people support him...
Do Tfl supply wallpaper or free holidays, if not then they aren't interesting to Boris!
Fascist live in an alternate reality, they don't listen to facts.
This is just former mayor who is now Prime Minister mad at current mayor.
It looks to me like Khan is in fact doing a pretty good job and it's only the pandemic that put a very large spanner in the works.
@@apkk5594 yeah probably.
Non binary gender fluid pedestrian crossings lights or food banks. Yep Khan went balls deep on the lights.
@@keira360 don’t think he did that
@@haroldinho9930 yes he did, I'm not making it up.i know it sounds like I'm taking the Mick but it's true.
TfL have been running a fairly complete service - running mostly empty - through most of the lockdown. There were some travel difficulties during the first peak of COVID in the first half of 2020 but by-and-large they have served the capital well.
I know this because have been able to travel to work at a couple of hospitals. I, and my colleagues, have been able to get to work at hospitals and other critical services and industries with only a little extra trouble at first. Without normal transport available, Summer 2020 could have been much deadlier and recovery a distant hope.
TfL could have laid off its staff and shut down along with the rest of the country and become another small part of the problem. They could even have caught up with a lot of back maintenance cheaply while the trains weren't running. Instead it stayed as a crucial part of the solution at great expense. The TfL staff helped to save lives and out themselves in harms way to do so. Supporting this effort is what the government bailouts are for.
It amazes me how how "treasured" these people were... Till they didnt need them amymore
No, you londoners pay.
Yes that's true in the emergency situation but London probably will never have the same numbers using the tube ever again, or at least for a very long time. So going forward there has to be structural change, you can't get subsidised to run half empty trains forever.
@@khar12d8 did you watch the video? The government grants to run tfl are less than anywhere else in the world so it's hardly being subsidized to run half empty trains. In addition it is a key piece of infrastructure. We only have to look across the pond to see how bad things can get when you under invest in infrastructure because "it should be profitable". We choose to invest in infrastructure because it provides a foundation for so much other commerce (health, education, roads, etc are all in the same bucket). The government gets far more in returns by having a functioning tfl than all the money it has invested over the last 30 years (corporate tax revenues, retail tax revenue, tourist revenue etc.)
"im not a Brit I'm a londoner. " Attitude soon changes when they want uk bailouts.
Boris didn't lie. Reality just contradicted his words.
Seems his orange American counterpart had the same issue.
“I didn’t lose! I merely failed to win!”
@@kantpredict Well yes but, blooo
@@haroldinho9930 isn't that what commie corbyn said? "Yes but we won the argument" lol sure you did grandad.
@@keira360 Comrade Corbyn*** Do not disrespect are glorious revolutionary leader again.
Does Johnson Hate London?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Any discussion on London's budget without mentioning
New York City retains *50%* of the funds it generates.
London retains *10%* of the funds it generates.
Is a failure to understand the *real* problem.
He loves the place like all politicians, they create laws for London problems & have no care for the countryside.
He hates labour consistuences.
@@AB-zl4nh. Yes over centralisation of government is a problem. We need a FedEx Britain with regional English parliaments with the power to raise tax revenue.
@@diesel92kj1. I don't recall London ever favouring Brexit.
He's doing it to strangle Sadiq..
Loving the machiavelli Tupac.
Try harder
TLDR of the TL;DR: Boris Johnon made a mess out of London Transport's budget while he was a mayor of London and now he's blaming Sadiz Khan for it.
Proven modus operandi for conservative governments around the world.
If you watched this video, that’s the message you’d take away. Unfortunately, it’s totally false.
The grants from the government and the deficit under Boris was due to MASSIVE investment and building, including rebuilding, of the network. Boris oversaw a huge technological rework and update of the entire TFL network that cost billions to implement - and he did a pretty cracking job of it if you look at the revenues now. The ability to use Apple Pay to cross the barriers and a single ticket for the whole of London ? Johnson.
Sadiq Khan has done nothing of the sort, on top of overseeing cross rail which is turning into a financial disaster. Notice how TL;DR didn’t cover AT ALL that difference in where the spending went, or what’s been happening long term over the last 2 decades in TFL. When you have the facts, it paints a very different picture. But Hey, VoTe LaBoUr LOLOL…
@@Spinbassflipbassfly Well, Khan did manage to reduce TFL's deficit, you can't take that away from him, and you can hardly blame him for COVID. What we essentially end up with then, is that Johnson was a good socialist, spending government money only public transport whilst Khan is a good capitalist working towards making public transport self-financing.
But no matter how you look at it, Johnson blames Khan for a problem entirely caused by COVID. Don't try to tell me that is fair or reasonable.
@@spitefulwar Not at all. The country where I live has a conservative government at the moment and they don't do anything like this. The Tory party is not representative of conservative parties in the rest of Europe (don't ask me about the rest of the world, I don't know enough about that). They have very different politics and ideology.
Back when the UK was a member of EU, the Tories werentæ even in the same EU parliament group as other conservative parties. Instead they were allied with right-wing extremist parties from other countries.
@@tessjuel ‘right wing extremist party’s?’ they must be the opposite of the largely far left Marxists currently occupying the EU parliament then?
I don't think public transport systems should be entirely reliant on fares. I think they should be partly funded by taxpayers. They're not there for recreation, they're there for the proper functioning of the capital and economy, and generate money indirectly that way.
It's the same reason that not every road in the country is a toll road.
That principle is good and a healthy economy in London does support the national economy, but it does grate a little when the rest of the country contributes to cheaper fares for Londoners.
I'd certainly rather see the money spent on services that I might actually use than on TfL
There are other way to generate revenue like using the space for advertisement and all that
In HK we basically take it to the extreme because rail network double as propert developer as well so theres a limit to that argument
eurovision50. Please don't give Boris any ideas about privatising the road network for all his cronies to cream more billions off us.
They should but for that to happen the public transport systems all over the country should actually be made public to their region.
London is ok with tfl but other regions bus systems are terrible and run mostly by companies like arriva or first.
No one wants to pay taxes for that, especially when fares in other places are ridiculously high.
I think a good public transport system is one where a private company owns and operates the network at a profit seeking more quid from operations forcing itself to provide a better service so that competition can’t catch up and bring them down, an example of this is in Hong Kong with the 80% privatised MTR+KCRC and several bus operators such as KMB, NFWB, etc. Or look at Tokyo with the several passenger train operators and bus companies or look closer to home at London before 1933 and the creation of the LPTB.
When public transport is subsidised, that means that the network is not as good as it could and should be...
Speaking from the Northern red wall, it makes no difference what state London infastructure is in because either way we won't receive fair funding for ours. Both Labour & Cons have been London centric for a long time and it won't stop any time soon
Transport in the north isn’t going to improve for a long time
Do any of the northern cities get a big revenue grant from Westminster to support their bus services?
True.
@@throwaway9226 I'm no expert on government grants (bus-related or otherwise), but I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is "yes".
The size of any grants given have likely been cut over the last decade, because cutting public services is what Tories do, but in general public transport is at least partly government-funded, so the buses should still be getting *something*.
100% agreed. Andy Burnham got our backs though.
TFL:
BoJo: KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
Boris: "the current Labor government (in London)..." That pretty much says it all
Public transport should not be expected to run on fares alone. It's also a service to business bringing staff and customers, and reducing need for roads for private transportation.
So it's only fair public transport is subsidized.
Some cities find that free public service makes sense saving cost of handling fares, and getting cars out of city.
I think the way way we're going to see less cars in London is not by establishing more Ultra low emissions zones but by introducing free London public transport. And that's going to be a hard compromise.
Subsidized by who's money? Londoners or people who live in say Newcastle or blackpool? We get treated like crap but our money is always good.
@@keira360 don't London put more into the budget than it recives?
Johnson looks like an overgrown five-year old child who denies any wrongdoing even when caught with his fingers in the jam.
How he came to be the political leader of one of the main world's powers utterly escapes me.
Parliamentary democracy.
Because the alternative was woke communism. Fuck that for a game of soldiers
I blame TfL, had they set themselves up as a PPE middle-man company they'd have received all the money they needed. Rookie error.
Sadiq Khan is irresponsible with TfL's budget - said the one who built the cable car.
I was looking for that garden bridge the other day, but couldn’t find it
It was Johnson as mayor who insisted that TFL be self funded and agreed to cut the government grant
Also u need to account for the environment around the time such as policy under labour government and all that
Role of London mayor is a new one and been evolving
@@vinniechan Labour was in power for less than 2 years of Boris Johnsons mayorship....
@@NK-vd8xi no you don't understand, any issues is the political opponents leftovers, and any positives are from my favourite political party doing it itself
Progressives, more like regressives.
The problem is London is in decline, Khan and other pro London advocates don't want to recognise that. I live in London and like living here but am happy for the city to decline in population since it will mean less pollution, lower rents and a better quality of life overall. But we can't keep running TfL like we still live in pre- pandemic times. Lots of people in London live in the suburbs and don't need to use the tube. I live in a part of London which doesn't even have the tube (load of Londoners live in places without the tube). Yet we're all paying higher council tax for a tube we don't use.
Sorry but the system needs to be reconfigured and cut backs made.
"city to decline in population since it will mean less pollution, lower rents and a better quality of life overall"
Like it did in 1961-1981? All that did was cause inner London to become an impoverished urban blight.
@@williamfrancis5367 Yeah because modern London isn't full of huge social problems already... Just because an area on the surface looks gentrified doesn't mean that there still isn't loads of poverty and social problems underneath the surface. London will need to do its best to meet the needs of local people but I don't think an obsession with growth is that healthy. So many Londoners are poor because of the cost of living. There's needs to be more focus on liveability. Either way, I don't think London can grow much more. It's hit a barrier. London isn't capable of meeting the housing needs of many hence why they're leaving.
Kyle, everyone here is blinkered and think some average pm is to blame for every problem Khan faces. They don't realize both main parties are culpable for many problems. Being tribal has that effect on people and they take it personal if their side of the fence is dissed.
Turning a profit isn´t impressive. They didn´t just magically improve efficiency or whatever. That money comes from somewhere. They mainly cut maintenance and investment spending which will just cause problems later. What they need is the funding that was cut as you said. It´s that or dismantling Londons public transport. It seems the Tories are quite willing to do that for image purposes. And it probably will work considering UK media is getting more and more biased.
It has nothing to do with financial responsibility. Unless you think dismantling Londons public transport is responsible.
Oof, titles are getting a bit clickbait-y.
dont blame them, blame the YT algorithm
They always have been
Any time Boris Johnson blames someone else personally, my reaction is approximately "Wow, if he's going to go to enough effort to lie about this person personally, I wonder what they were doing right."
Khan is the Mayor and has been elected by the people of London. He is responsible to fix these problems. Don't blame Johnson for everything. If Khan can't then he can quit
As you saw in the video (right?), TfL was already going to make a profit in the next years with Khan as Mayor, but then there was a slight problem... * a global pandemic *
@@DanielPlaza Exactly. So why blaming Johnson instead of Khan? Blame the pandemic.
TLDR not even trying anymore
I'm a London bus driver. Hammersmith bridge it has been closed for at least 3 years now. On the other hand the train drivers have a strong union and they always get a raise (normal thing due to inflation) but the bus driver suffered a freeze since 2019, long before the pandemic hit. With Boris you had to pay for every journey when changed a bus. With Khan he established a fare of 1.50 during one hour you can take the buses you want. Since lockdown eased the fare is 1.55
...TfL was on track to become the only capital city transport authority in the world to turn a profit...
Is this true? Tokyo’s two subway companies, both Tokyo owned one and for-profit one seems to be doing well.
How can you do this with a straight face? Figures say one thing but context is everything;
"Boris Johnson’s tenure saw debt soar, as you would expect due to the Crossrail project and the spending commitments signed by the previous Mayor
Sadiq Khan’s initial tenure saw debt continue to rise due to further investments in streets and London Underground signalling, and although Crossrail costs were expected to decline, they’ve risen to complete the project."
From Source 5.
Where is the source that says TFL will be in surplus 2:38?
Hong Kong's MTR turns a profit.
it's just the tories being petty an vindictive as always
I actually live in Scotland and would be interested on the governments take over of scotrail if you could do a video on that. I would say that the Northern rail in England is pretty dire and needs urgent attention to move them forward as some routes are still using diesel trains which I never see up here. Unfortunate for the people of London but I hope this is an actual move to further decentralisation
Looking in from the outside as an American, but it seems here like Khan is a particularly partisan Labor mayor and that this is exacerbating the problem. When a city or (here) a state installs a particularly partisan government it always creates issues over national spending priorities when the other party controls the central government.
The only reason Khan is not getting the money is because a Tory Government would never allow a Labour Mayor to have enough money and control to do a better job than a Tory candidate. It is even worse for Khan, because the previous Tory mayor is now the Prime Minister, so BoZo has a political and personal reason for him to fail. However, Khan will have a hard job doing worse than BoZo, as he blew nearly a billion pounds on vanity projects that went nowhere.
Transport is service not a commodity
This title is surprisingly clickbait for TLDR
They're obviously biased and not even trying to hide it anymore..
HONESTLY, THE COMMUTE BETWEEN MY BEDROOM AND MY LIVING ROOM HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE THIS PAST YEAR
And people still continue to vote Tory. Any clues as to why we're the laughing stock of Europe???
There's never "no political subtext" in what Boris does
You did forget to mention Kahn scrapped almost all the fares making it free for basically everyone. The collapse in ticket revenue wasn't inevitable.
Buses are funded different also that decision was reversed pretty quickly
I get the feeling that all politicans just hate TFL. Sadiq and Boris as mayors have cancelled a train line that could have been going straight to my home town, which is personal to me. But it irritates me, no city train service should profit like a company it's first obligation is to deliver to its passengers like myself that pay forkloads daily for a rotten cramped journey. TFL is massively overshadowed by greed and miscommunication, it's embarrassing for a prestigious city like London.
Boris: You’re terrible at managing TFL
Also Boris: [did a worse job when he was mayor]
did he?
@@chudchadanstud apparently according to the video,
@@saeedzain23 No not really. If I remember correctly TfL was actually evolving under Johnson. Under Khan most of the focus shifted to extending lines unnecessarily rather than fixing/improving the existing ones. Aside from the launch of Mordenised buses, the buses became stagnant and bus lanes started to disappear.
Boris he brought in many initiatives that reduces congestion and pollution in London. A lot of money was spent on bike tracks and trying to push Londoners to bike more.
Spending a lot of money ≠ bad management. He added much needed improvements to TfL. Also a lot of technological change happened during his time and TfL was investing in smart technologies.
@@chudchadanstud Damn, it was a joke btw? I guess one could say that in terms of managing the debt of TFL, Boris did a worse job...
@@chudchadanstud, it depends, but Johnson did increase the debt from 2 Billion to around 9 Billion. So he's partially responsible.
"Fiscally responsible with no political subtext" oh you sweet summer child...
This is a poor video. You claim to being an explainer but have left out a huge amount. The 9 billion debt was ALL because of building cross rail. The cost over runs on that are mostly down to Khans failure to manage the construction of that project. But you biggest failure is not to mention that staff at tfl were furloughed. That is the government paid their wages saving a fortune for TFL. This is an awful video with all the problems of unedited news. I have not even mentioned that Khan cut fares creating a billion pound black whole or that the late running of cross rail has cost three years of fares or another 1.5 billion to be lost. Khan is shoddy just like this video.
> Boris Johnson
> fiscally responsible
You guys know how to create some comedy
Honestly how can 1 party and 1 man lie so much. At some point politicians and political leaders need to be held accountable.
Ah the old we'll appeal to the north by tearing down London so it's just as leveled down as they are! Classic Boris
“Er er I didn’t do anything wrong with err TFL. Errrrrrrr what does that stand for again?... I was mayor?! Of we’re?! Crap don’t blame me! He’s Labour!”🖕
Oh yay, yet again the rest of us in the UK, who may never even go to London, are paying for their transport system because of the London mayor's failings. As someone from the Midlands, I really resent paying for London's excellent transport system while having my own areas system chopped up and cut all over the place.
You realise the UK Government is currently paying for nearly every transport system around the country because of the pandemic?
As stated in the video, hardly anything was being paid towards it in the first place.
@@Garfie489 the difference is that London has excellent public transport at ludicrously cheap prices in comparison to where I live in the Midlands. And that's the reason they have no money. The government are helping all train companies but from my perspective as someone from outside of London, London always gets priority whether it's £4b in bailouts or a dumb HS2 project. I'm against most bailouts in general with the odd exception. They get to enjoy super cheap prices and then don't worry, the rest of the country will bail them out when they inevitably die a horrible bankrupty death.
@@rickybojangles162 The reason they have no money is because of the pandemic. Otherwise they were barely getting any money at all, certainly less as a % than many other areas of the UK. The financial situation was stable pre pandemic, and near enough every other train line has had to be re nationalised because of it.
And London is paying for your everything through London taxes, stop complaining.
@@Andrew-ob5ij is it???? Because all I'm seeing is services cut in my area, government funding for local councils being cut and council tax going up. So from my perspective, London taxes aren't doing much for me.
Blaming Labour for circumstances that were either out of their control or that the Conservatives themselves created. Sounds about right.
It's not about London itself though. If it was a Conservative mayor they wouldn't be giving them any of this grief; it's just to try to make Labour look bad.
Good on Boris for telling Khan how it is by saying it was fine when he was there
Edit: okay I just watched the full video. Boris lied.
He lied... again
Did you really expect anything else from Boris than lies?
Hahahahaha
Can't say I expected anything better from that clown of a PM.....I had hoped for something that looked like fiscal responsibility off of him, but you know, can't have Funny-Banter-Boris and also Good-PM/Mayor-Boris at the same time
You mean you thought that somebody who was sacked as a press reporter for lying, sacked as member of the cabinet for lying, cheated on his ex-wife multiple times and has lied repeatedly all his life, might be telling the truth about a political and personal rival's aledged failings and who he wants desperately to fail so that people forget that he himself wasted nearly a billion pounds on vanity projects when he was Mayor?
Can't we all agree Boris and Khan are both bad for London. Simple.
Wow, don't spit facts, they will call you biased
Over 500 TFL staff earned more than £100.000 last year. Surely that can't be helping finances. That was despite the £1.6bn tax payers bail out.
I don't live in London and don't use any transport in it why should I be paying for TFL
They want to run a public service like it's a private enterprise.
This has been a consistent pattern from the Tories forever, back to Thatcher exact the same thing with British Rail, the Utilities to justify privatisation. She even tried it with the NHS, remember the waiting lists that were years long under Thatcher.
I think NHS should be privatise. I think quality of nhs service has become worst compared most European country . Infact lot of third world countries give better service. Lot British ppl are travelling to other countries to get treatment. Most nhs staff itself don't want treatment here.
@@chiragshetty4608 pls go live in America and take your ideas with you
There NEEDS to be more devolution for London.
It's practically treated as a special case as it is.
Im sorry, but before Johnson and Khan, London should of been turning a profit well before even Livingstone. Something more inherent is stopping TfL moving forward, whether that is political games or not. London relies too much on the public coffers while also still handing out the begging bowl. Meanwhile the north of London is left to scrimp and save to get what they need.
Yes it's historical for mayor's to bleed it dry.
@@keira360 So how do you explain it growing till the pandemic hitting?
@@gartut200 over funded at expense of rest of uk
@@keira360 how can it be overfunded yet bled dry? Think about it.
@@gartut200 mismanagement through flawed policy decisions with inadequate scrutiny.
The media tries it's best left and right to cover this trash but are all part of the London head in trough bubble.
Think about it.
Gross incompetence, an army of over paid underworked executives/ managers, gold plated pensions, free travel for everybody they know, sou
great video, thanks!
As to why the government is still questioning Saddiq Con... I mean Khan's... fiscal responsibility is summed up in one valid question:
"How much was David Hockney "granted" for that kindergarten-level "art" logo for Piccadilly?"
TLDR: It’s political.
The cost of train ticket is London is way higher then any European city. This discourages ppl from travelling and also reduces ppl from spending bad for economy. Even things like congestion charge is bad for the economy.
one of the most expensive subway services in the world and needa a bailout... corruption!!!
TFL needs to up there standards and take notes from other countries public transport networks we are paying way too much for poor services
London for the last 60 years has received far too much at the expense of the North. It's about time that the London budget was cut by half and that money given to the North to start to balance up investment.
There we are falling for the propaganda.
London has 9 million people more than NI and Scotland combined. It creates huge amounts of income and taxes that then go to be spent in other parts of the UK, its a huge money maker for the entire country.
If you underfund it and let it grind to a halt the whole country suffers.
Nothing London has recived has been at the expense of the North but to the benift of the tax pot, what you should be annoyed about is how that is allocated outside of public services.
@@tmarritt That wouldn't be the case if money and assets where evenly distributed. It's all a case of London first and it's about time that ended.
@@johnrussell4125 per head London doesn't actually any more spending than the rest of the UK, its just there are a hell of a lot of heads.
You don't need to pull money from London to put more money elsewhere.
And what do you think all those people in London are buying? Its not stuff made in London i can tell you that much.
Stop blaming London, its just like blaming the EU.
@@tmarritt wrong, part of the calculation is based on land value. It's cheap up north so we get f all.
Regarding "mostly funded by fares"... Mind showing how many public transport lines are _completely_ funded by fares because they're _for profit_ from the start, like bus lines?
FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS NEEDED FOR UNI STUDENTS!!
Given the increase in WFH being adopted by millions of Londoners, it is inevitable that TFL will need to adapt its services in accordance with the drop in usage. So perhaps this a good time to review and re-size into a new and potentially more efficient service.
This video is very informing and I am very thankful to the people who helped made this video
TFL should never been in the black, and if it does then ticket prices should go down accordingly
Been saying it for years. We pay high fares for an awful service.
A transport network doesn’t bring value by turning a profit… so it can be seen that the tories defo have some ulterior motive here
It can be both give you reading way too much into it.
When Khan become mayor of London promise price freeze on public transport. If he never promised that TFL woud bin ok,
so he destroyed London when he became mayor. I'm horrified that you got with another term
He won't be held accountable by itv, c4 or the BBC. Business as usual.
Sadiq Khan and Boris have personal hatred towards each other.
Its also logical that the Tories work to make the two most prominent Labour faces viewed negatively. After all, Boris' political career was catapulted by being Mayor of London, why would he want Khan to look like a potential PM
TFL should have called the PM pretending to be a company that makes PPE equipment. No worries!! Here are billions.
Ah, politicians blaming each other for their own failings. What a surprise.
Boris literally couldn't repaint his bedroom without getting into debt
Imagine having a transport sign as iconic feature for your country 🤣🤣🤣
Imagine how little is on offer 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe there’s a reason the TfL roundel is as famous as it is? Just a thought
@@isnitjustkit oh yes, the sign of corruption and incompetence.
@@maccybear8093 So corrupt and incompetant that it's 99% self funded and came within an inch of turning a profit, the only capital city transport executive in the world to do so?
@@isnitjustkit it once was, almost self-funded, but not for the last ten years. Every Tom, Dick and Harry left the company and created a bogus company and took contracts from their friends and basically scammed every penny out of TFL. The company is now begging every week for funding, and this has been the case for some years, not paying its way, overspending, wastage and scams. TFL/LU is a dump. Old broken infrastructure and poisonous management from top to bottom.
Every time it rains the whole place floods. They can't even afford to fix the roof 😂
Yes.
Why would they want money for London? Isn't it the richest place in the entire country? I'm pretty sure they could cut their expenses in half to find all the money they need and no one would even notice.
The mayor of London introduced a fare hopper single fair any bus for an hour in the middle of a massive construction project needing funding as I result cross rail/elizenbeth line is 3 years late
Why don't they just give the money? Probably because there's not much money to give.
at 0:33, why do you use that image of Johnson? It's not a very flattering image of him, and there are better ones, it looks like you just want to make him look bad. The image you used for Sadiq Khan is much more respectful to him. If you want people to take your claim that you're "unbiased", use a better image for the PM.
Exactly..........agree.
If these stats are to accurate than it seems that Prime Minister Johnson is to blame for TFL's financial situation.
I mean, if they think they do can do a better job, why don't they run it instead? Oh wait, that would actually mean they could be held accountable for something....
It's almost as if they have some personal vendetta against the current mayor for some reason. What could possibly be the reason that a party investigated for Islamophobia and who ran a racist Mayoral campaign in 2016 possibly have against Sadiq Khan? 🤷🏾♂️
Islam is a cancer. Tories aren't even tough on Islam. London is basically a city state caliphate at this point anyway. 'Londonistan'.
For goodness sake, both sides play the race game.
i still cant believe our best choice of a prime minister was Boris Johnson... the bumbling fool who was a below-average mayor...
If you are fiscally responsible it makes sense to support and help an organisation that has proven to be fiscally responsible the money they need in order to keep it that way.
This is just classic twattery.
Can I just add that TFL wouldn’t have been the only metro system to make a profit. Hong Kong Metro has been doing it for years
Hong Kong’s profitability doesn’t come from running the trains and getting fairs, but because it also owns a lot of property that it leases out.
most of wider England (the Conservative heart land) couldn't give a monkeys about London.
5:21 it’s not their responsibility to pay?! You want devolution? You got it! But you gotta pay!
Why should people in my county of Kent, or in Yorkshire, or Cornwall etc pay for London transport with national tax while our busses are falling apart?
Given that 1/2 the UK's tax revenue comes from london that works for us. London subsidises the rest of the UK, so really your question should be "Why should London pay for Kent, or Yorkshire or Cornwall?"
Fiscally responsible? Boris Johnson? No need to be that sarcastic, TLDR...
Boris should be held responsible for his lies
They're shirking their responsibilities and trying to blame problems they created on other people. Typical primary school stuff.
However, funding London so disproportionately will take away from the rest of the country, (and make the Tories look good) so I can see why a lot of people agree with their decisions.
If they'd try following Japan's railway model, we'd see a significant decrease in these petty squibbles.
London doesn’t actually get disproportionate funding its one of the only regions which gives more in tax revenue then it takes in
The red wall angle doesn't make any sense, why would people from the red wall care?
*NEITHER* Bojo is a narcissist and it is petty vengeance on his successor Sadiq, its what narcissists DO...
isn't metro in tokyo (both "private" companies) profitable ???
The message to the voter is clear. If you want funding for you local authority elect a Tory. We will give you a little. Vote in anyone else and we will cut the little they had. Simple. Most voters don't eve see that the LA's get the bulk of their money from central government. That's why the bulk of austerity was foisted on the LA's, so they take the blame.
Many of us here in London expected that delayed issues will show after Boris leaves the mayor post but I tried to dismiss it as paranoia but there is some credibility to such suspicions. Now Im starting to wonder what will come up for the UK as a whole after he drops the PM post.
This is going to backfire, if Boris wants to carry out his up leveling agenda, he needs to make sure investments to London are not an issue as well as with the rest of the UK. London has a GDP of 1 trillion, the city is crucial to the entire UK and for too long has London's growth been stunted by political incompetence and London budgets being limited and directed to the rest of the country. I'm not trying to be rude or funny but the population of the North of England in comparison to the South is disproportionate with the South being much more populous and as a result more wealthy and economically superior. I do agree with the fact that the North needs investment and better infrastructure but I don't think they should be blaming Southerners and londoners for their lack of funding when they just aren't economically as strong. INVEST IN LONDON and when you do, you end up with more capital which can be used to fund projects across the UK. There's no levelling up without London. I've gone a little off topic but this all links.
I would be much happier to see them actually helping and not throwing the toys out of the pram like school children. I'm from the west mids not London
Same old politicians' bs. Blame the opposition.
Comparing TfL budgets of the last 13 years. Not a word on the 2012 Olympics. Maybe not that unbiased.
Another 15 BILLION investment, most of each never got outside the M25 .