Current Affairs Sadiq Khan......London Mayor.....

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longers said:
Im gonna stick my neck on the line and say that Londoners probably have a better idea of if he's doing a decent job than angry gammons who don't live in London.

Also the alternative was Zac Goldsmith ffs
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Tbf they didn’t really have a choice, and it shows......
 
JEBUS_LIVES said:
Hang on a second...it says in that article Khan loudly opposes a boycott of Israeli goods. He is a strong opponent of anti-Semitism. if recent news coverage has taught me anything it is that these things are incompatible.
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I don't think we should be selling Israeli goods, that doesn't make me an anti-Semite - it just makes me vehemently anti-apartheid.
 
can't stand Khan or his fascist policies. A soundbite politician whose skin tone allow him to play diversity card. Gets all his policies in under the "what, are you against safety?" crap. Total scumbag of a human.
 
evilwebby said:
can't stand Khan or his fascist policies. A soundbite politician whose skin tone allow him to play diversity card. Gets all his policies in under the "what, are you against safety?" crap. Total scumbag of a human.
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Hard to disagree with this.......
 
Bruce Wayne said:
https://www.independent.co.uk/envir...icles-health-bills-lung-disease-a8384806.html

It's not happening for kicks and giggles Pete.
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I'm surprised and disappointed that you give any weight to these kind of reports, Bruce. They are always funded by environmental groups with their own motives.

But more importantly, their methods and conclusions are highly debatable. Pollution certainly does NOT cost 9500 lives in London a year. That is sensationalist nonsense where they extrapolate extended life expectancy and improved health from less pollution... BUT that is a fantasist world. If you removed traffic then business would stop and we would be plunged into rat-eating chaos. I don't think health and life expectancy would improve under those circumstances. If you wanted you could just as easily design a study that showed the commerce and wealth that is generated from motor vehicle activity in cities raises standards of living and therefore increases life expectancy.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Goldsmith is/was the MP for your part of town wasn't he? Does/did he do a good job?
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No idea what sort of a job Goldsmith did.. think he was from one of the neighbouring Richmond seat. He's always going to have a sign over his head as the son of James Goldsmith. From what I gather he is pro small-business, but strikes me as someone clearly with ambitions beyond his constituency. I wouldn't be happy if he was airdropped in to contest/represent my constituency.
Tories were pretty dumb to run him as the mayoral candidate. He's the kind of smarmy careerist politician that is very easy to dislike.
 
evilwebby said:
I'm surprised and disappointed that you give any weight to these kind of reports, Bruce. They are always funded by environmental groups with their own motives.

But more importantly, their methods and conclusions are highly debatable. Pollution certainly does NOT cost 9500 lives in London a year. That is sensationalist nonsense where they extrapolate extended life expectancy and improved health from less pollution... BUT that is a fantasist world. If you removed traffic then business would stop and we would be plunged into rat-eating chaos. I don't think health and life expectancy would improve under those circumstances. If you wanted you could just as easily design a study that showed the commerce and wealth that is generated from motor vehicle activity in cities raises standards of living and therefore increases life expectancy.
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Who is advocating taking all cars off the road? No one as far as I know, least of all me.

Let me ask you though, do you believe that the cleaning of emissions from cars over the past century has had any impact on public health?
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Who is advocating taking all cars off the road? No one as far as I know, least of all me.

Let me ask you though, do you believe that the cleaning of emissions from cars over the past century has had any impact on public health?
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Probably yes, a small overall improvement... BUT I also believe it would largely have happened anyway without government trying to legislate for it. This is a natural function of business... car manufacturers are always improving their technology and toxic emission reduction would have happened as a part of this. Remember it was also government that was largely responsible for the huge push towards diesel before the dieselgate U-turn.
Electric vehicles predominance will happen sooner or later because of car manufacturers refining the technology, not because of well-intentioned legislation. Just let them get on with it.
 
See Khan is blaming the middle class in London for fuelling the recent rise in violence and crime in London. Odious little toad of a man.
 
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