The illegal water cannons Boris Johnson wasted £323,000 on while he was mayor of London have still not been sold, because no ‘ethical’ country will buy them.
Boris splashed hundreds of thousands in taxpayers’ cash on the riot control vans, and thousands more on painting them ‘police blue’.
But in 2014, Theresa May banned them from the streets and they’ve never been used. Sadiq Khan put them up for sale when he was elected mayor last year.
Months later, they’re still unsold, in part because the deal was that Britain would seek the approval of their previous owners - the German Police - before selling them on.
On top of that, Sadiq Khan has vowed only to sell the costly hoses to “a buyer who meets the most rigorous ethical standards, to ensure the water cannon are not in any way misused in the future,” according to the Mail.
Meanwhile, the cannons are costing taxpayers more than £25,000 a year to insure and maintain, despite never having been deployed on the streets.
The London mayor snapped up the three second-hand Wasserwerfer 9000 riot trucks from the German federal police in 2014 for £218,000.
The Mayor also splurged thousands on installing CD players and stereos on the soggy white elephants.
But the water cannon - which cost £23,573 to re-paint in the colours of the Metropolitan Police - are not allowed to be used on Britain's streets.
Home Secretary Theresa May last year refused to authorise their by any police force on mainland Britain - in a direct snub to Johnson.
As the expensive initial outlay and repainting costs, the 28-year-old trucks are costing more than £25,000 a year to insure and maintain.
A Freedom of Information request to the Met Police found that the annual cost of maintaining the three vehicles was £20,800 - or £6,960 each.
The cost of insuring them comes out at £4,818 a year - £1,606 each.
The 29-tonne vehicles - which can carry 9,000 litres of water and can shoot water at the rate of 1,100 litres per second at targets 65metres away - were delivered to the Met police in June 2014.
Since then, they’ve only been moved once a year for road worthiness tests.