Khan’s TfL Chief Says Tube Graffiti Cleaners Are the Ones Spraying Graffiti – Guido Fawkes

Khan’s TfL Chief Says Tube Graffiti Cleaners Are the Ones Spraying Graffiti

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Graffiti-ridden TfL tubes have forced campaigners such as Looking For Growth and Tom Harwood to clean up it up themselves. Despite the TfL cleaning contracts costing the taxpayer £155 million every year…

This was brought up at the London Assembly meeting today. To which Sadiq Khan’s TfL Commissioner Andy Lord responded by implying that activists are spraying the graffiti in order to film themselves cleaning it up. Classy…

🚨 Is Sadiq Khan’s TfL Chief seriously suggesting that people like @tomhfh and @lfg_uk are spraying graffiti just so they can clean it off themselves?

Why on earth would they have to do that? pic.twitter.com/CqNx72nIw6

— TfL Watch (@TfLWatch) July 3, 2025

Khan’s Andy Lord raked in a whopping £639,164 in total remuneration last year. Guido alumnus and graffiti cleaner Tom Harwood told Guido:

“I understand Andy Lord is a busy man, who with his £639,164 taxpayer funded salary might not take the tube quite as regularly as I do. Perhaps one day Andy could take off his tin foil hat and instead accompany me to visit the Bakerloo line, to see the state of the services he oversees.”

Dirty business…

UPDATE: Dr Lawrence Newport of the Looking For Growth group told Guido:

“The fact TfL leadership think we would need to put graffiti on the tube shows how utterly disconnected from reality they are. They have failed to do their jobs so they are slandering LFG volunteers. They must apologise and they must do their jobs and actually clean the tube.”