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TRANSPORT workers rounded on London mayoral hopeful Zac Goldsmith yesterday after he threatened to steal their families’ travel concessions.
The multimillionaire Tory claimed he would hire an extra 500 police officers to patrol the capital’s transport network — and pay for it by revoking travel passes given to workers’ family members.
“At a time when the multibillion-pound tax dodging racket of the super-rich is all over the media it is disgusting that Goldsmith is threatening long-established travel concessions,” RMT general secretary Mick Cash said.
“If London needs more investment in transport and policing it should come from the gangsters, crooks and tax dodgers who use this city as a dumping ground for their dirty money.”
Fellow transport union TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said the idea that cutting the concessions — which TfL admits cost nothing, since no additional services are laid on — could raise millions set “a new standard in plain-Tory stupid.
“If there’s no financial outlay there can be no financial clawback. There is no money to be made here. Just political spite.”
