On 10/06/2016 08:08, Recliner wrote:
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Did Sadiq ever promise to freeze all fares or only TfL fares? Surely only
the latter, in which case he won't be breaking his promise. He's a lawyer,
so I can't believe he'd promise to freeze something he had no control over.



He is now a politician who I think used politicians' rather than
lawyers' tricks. First, he stood on a manifesto which included what
many people took as a "promise" but was only one of his "priorities", so
he has a bit of wriggle room there. Second, he can always play the "when
we saw the books..." and "we found Boris had left an even bigger
mess..." cards. But third and above all else he can just ignore it:
he's in now for 4 years;and he can count on the fact that most voters
won't care come 2020. (I know Nick Clegg showed that broken promises can
harm your chances but he worked really, really hard at it for 5 years.)

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Robin
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