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Sadiq Khan is still awful. Though he often tells us that climate change and Covid-19 is the biggest threat facing the planet, apparently it's not quite as catastrophic as unemployed actors: he has decided to limit the congestion charge on weekends and eliminate it over Christmas in a bid to get people back into West End theatres.  

Has he admitted that the congestion charge makes it harder to do business? That's the logical conclusion of this move. But no, he hasn't admitted it, because that would require a shred of honesty.  

He is also set to hike council tax to plug the gaping black hole in Transport for London's budget. TfL has always been an economic basket case, and his attempts to blame the Tory government in Westminster do not wash.  

Probably wasn't a good idea to make bus travel free throughout the first lockdown, was it. Probably wasn't a good idea to freeze fares, either. Both of these things cost huge amounts of money.  Maybe, rather than placating militant unions in their demands for astronomical wages, he should be looking to automate as much of the system as possible?