• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

However, you are predicting that this vision is not going to happen. You are predicting, actually, that people are going to continue to use cash and the Travelcard version because that is where you are going to get your extra revenue. You cannot have your cake and eat it. What are you actually going to do? Go to a restaurant in Crystal Palace instead?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

This is about the Oyster Pre Pay and the Oyster Travelcard. As we know, only 5%, if that, of Oyster card holders use Pre Pay. I had always used my Oyster card, and it does not say on it whether it is Pre Pay or Travelcard. I think there is an education issue there. If you are saying that you are not expecting a reduction of revenue, does that not mean that this is going to hammer the 95% of Travelcard Oyster payers?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

I am afraid I think you would have a slightly oinky nose. Finally, what would you say to all those Londoners who did take the trouble to answer your consultation who say that their views were not only ignored, given that you are proceeding despite the fact that you only got 24%, but they now seem to be struck out of your records altogether?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

Is it not funny that they have given you an even bigger thumbs down on the second consultation than they did to the first? I do not think that seems to be meeting your direction at all.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

I am not going to argue about the rights and wrongs of MORI. I am simply suggesting that you had already spent millions of pounds of Londoners' money on the official consultation, which you do appear to be airbrushing out of history and leaving this MORI poll as the only record of your consultation. I think people will believe this is a blatant attempt at concealing the extent of public hostility to the policy that you are adopting, by simply trying to write it out of history. What happened to your promises of this being the most open, accountable and...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

You never refer to it anywhere, do you, in your interviews or in anything else? You refer only to the quick and cheap MORI poll. Let me ask you: what role would you see yourself playing in Animal Farm when all the rules that are written up keep getting rewritten secretly overnight?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

As far as I am aware, your own MORI poll was an attitudinal survey. It was also quick and dirty, was it not? It was one of those that was, `Quick ' grab 2,000 people'. I understand that only 1,000 of those were actually from the existing zone or thereabouts, but that it was so heavily weighted that, in fact, in the end only 63 interviews contributed to the 41% reflecting their opinions on this charge. It was a pretty cheap and quick kind of thing, was it not, compared to your consultation?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

Is it not extraordinary that despite your changes, you got even more people coming out against it? It does not seem you can do anything to make people like it, Mr Mayor.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

Nevertheless, what is the point of your report, which is published with some flourish just ahead of these sessions, if it does not actually reflect the full situation as far as major policy decisions? It seems to me extraordinary that you could have spent something like £3 million and asked literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of households, and somehow the whole thing is airbrushed out of history. Why was that the case? Why was your report, which is an important document and, I would imagine, meant to be a record of your governance, not mentioning the main consultation?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Mayor, I realise that the Congestion Charge protesters have mostly gone, but you have to understand that the people of Kensington and Chelsea and west London do oppose the Extension of the scheme. They are unhappy with it, and I think you referred to opinion polls just now. I just have to say one of the problems I have with listening to that is this: when there was an opinion poll that your office ordered on another matter, we were clear that the questions were leading questions. They led towards an end point. When we then tried to scrutiny it...