Boris Johnson isn’t the only Tory who’s tried to ruin London with ‘white elephant’ schemes. Here’s (Tory-run) Westminster Council
Marble Arch Mound: if Westminster Council had wanted to stink up the classic architecture of Marble Arch with a big pile of earth, they could have got it dirt cheap from any Powys farmer. Why spend £2 million on it?
Ridicule has met the opening of Tory-run Westminster Council’s ‘Marble Arch Mound’ – a £2m embarrassment that follows the rule: never let a Conservative near a building project.
The architectural plans were very exciting, apparently – but the reality has turned out to be a big pile of Earth.
And now people who bought tickets to climb this travesty are claiming refunds.
Oh. It’ll look better once the landscape has had time to “bed in and grow”. But this is only a temporary installation, isn’t it?
The idea had been to tempt shoppers back to central London after the lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown there. In Oxford Street, 17 per cent of the shops have closed permanently because of Tory government mismanagement of the crisis.
Perhaps the others will have to close after this fiasco – which is more likely to turn people away, it seems.
Source: ‘Teething problems’: visitors offered refunds for Marble Arch Mound | Architecture | The Guardian
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The trees can be replanted, the mound, that could go on someone’s allotment, the railings, well they maybe needed to handle more incompetence caused by the tories (hereby named Pritti Barriers), the Bins could be used to store sensitive documents such as the Russian report, the little kiosk could be set up as a pay per view booth to jeer at the lying tories,outside westminster, there a productive use for how much did this bundle of junk cost?
If you have very little imagination vote Tory…….
I doubt that he’ll even be able to sell this crap to his “friends” at a knock down buy it now price”