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@Oliver Schick
This deserves mention owing to the brazenness of the lie--everybody involved in London politics knows that Johnson wrecked London's finances despite large bailouts from his mates Cameron and Osborne, and now he's trying to gaslight people about this.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-hits-out-at-boris-johnson-s-lies-over-tfl-blackhole-b927941.html
Basically, the Government under C&O had the idiotic idea of forcing TfL to fund public transport largely through fares and not through government grants. Strangely, in circumstances when most fares income falls away, such as, to choose a completely random example, during a pandemic, this can cause a few problems.
The problem with comparing Johnson and Khan is that it's like comparing apples and oranges--Khan is actually a Mayor, whereas Johnson was just an idle, disengaged waste of space and leadership vacuum who left most of the work to others, such as Edward Lister.