Garden Bridge: B. Johnson 0 Sadiq Khan + Londoners 6

 Some 30 plus trees that would have 

been cut down to make away for Johnson 

and Lumley's vanity project

Great news: Today Sadiq Khan refused to underwrite the maintenance costs of Boris Johnson's Garden Bridge Folly. Hopefully his decision will have effectively killed off this ludicrous and expensive folly that has wasted at least £43 million of taxpayers money with absolutely nothing to show for all this expense. 

Sadiq Khan now should hold a proper inquiry into how this happened and what lessons can be learned.  

28.4.17: Breaking news – Sadiq Khan refuses to 

give guarantees to underwrite the maintenance 

(above and below)

From one of the threatened trees looking across the 

Thames where the Garden Folly would have gone

Spare trees looking good with 

their fresh young Spring growth

2017 – not much to cheer I fear........!

Happy New Year but will it be?

There are many who will be very happy to see the back of 2016 – frost and mildew in the Loire and other northern French vineyards, Brexit lunacy in the UK and in the US the election of a spoilt child. 

Unfortunately the arrival of 2017 will not wave a magic wand to reverse the effects and after-shocks of 2016. 2017 will see us living with the consequences of 2016. 

Those Loire producers, who were severely hit by the frosts of 2016 April, will be feeling the consequences during the coming year with low wine stocks. There is no doubt that the Loire cannot afford another serious April frost. Fingers will be firmly crossed during Springtime.

It is increasingly clear that the UK cannot afford Brexit. Unfortunately May's incompetent and arrogant government appear to be all too likely to get the worst Brexit deal going. I just hope that the prospects of a hard Brexit will dawn on enough people to force a rethink.....

With a bit of luck we will see London's ridiculous Garden Bridge cancelled.

As for Trump .......

    

 

London's proposed Garden Bridge is an expensive, corrupt nonsense

 Two of 32 mature trees on the South Bank to be

 felled to make way for the lunatic Garden Bridge

Now supposed to cost some £185 million to build a corporate events bridge – Garden Bridge –  over the Thames is fortunately facing increasing opposition. This is best expressed by Kate Hoey MP's speech at the House of Commons Adjournment Debate this week – 7th September 2016. 

 

Unfortunately our new London Mayor – Sadiq Khan – appears to be happy for more of our tax payers money to be wasted on this vanity project rather than to take the right and brave step to pull the plug on this nonsensical project.