bramling
Veteran Member
What doesn't make sense (to me) is why it would be in any way in the Mayor's own interest to try and 'cover up' any delay? The successful delivery of the project is largely out of his direct control anyway - others responsibility - save for releasing funding and providing challenge/probing into how on time the thing is.
Mayor hoping to get some political creep points off the back of it and no one in the project team has the guts to come out in the open for fear of being the mayor’s fall-guy? To allow the announcement of the delay to be timed in such a way that it’s released on a day that’s “a good day to bury bad news”?
Again, it makes the leadership - from the mayor downwards - appear incompetent. But then little about Khan impresses me, his sole goal seems to be to get re-elected and boost his profile off the back of delivering very little of substance. I find the “the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has done...” posters across the Underground system rather distasteful.