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

[Steve0]

He’s not a Muslim Mayor, he’s the Mayor.....

You’re not even convincing yourself.

 

[tsubaki]

You forgot to mention what religion Boris was, apparently we all have to do it now.....

perhaps starting the thread to highlight your objections to a mayor of a city you don't live in was not the smartest idea

 

[Toffeeslam]

What is more interesting is those that excuse him and just accept the situation......

Excuse him for what ?

I’m stating imperical fact and I’m making excuses for him ? Why are you shielding Teresa May and the Tories on this ?

BTW I live in London and most people here understand that central government cuts are the biggest causes of this and the Mayor can only work with what his got.

He stated that just to keep 90% of the officers on the streets that were there 6 years he had to shut some 70 police stations. Not something his predecessor Boris had and in two terms that clown did nothing.

So before making silly statements old boy do some due diligence and understand what’s really happening rather than blame something on someone just for partisan politics sake, otherwise why are you not blaming every mayor in every major city ?

 

[ClausThomsen]

In Merseyside public order crime risen by 47% and violent crime by 25% . I know greater Manchester had a higher murder rate per 100,000 people than London and I’m sure earlier this year using the same per 100k other areas did have a higher rate . I couldn’t say whether that’s still the case but it’s enough for it to say the rise in crime and violent crime can’t all be khan’s fault .

Just checked Merseyside’s knife crime is at its highest level for 10 years.

Yup. Even here in wooly St.Helens the place has become riddled with knives in the last few years of crippling austerity and severe cuts from central funding.

If he has little or no power then get rid of him and the post anyway. The Mayor and the Police are supposedly responsible for the strategy of policing London. It is more about how the Police deploy and act as it is money. Other cities seem to cope. At the moment the Met does not prevent crime nor actively ‘get in the faces’ of those that carry it out before they do. They react, then have to spend an obscene amount of manpower dealing with a murder and it’s investigation.....no one thinks this is easy, but whatever strategy they are currently following is having little effect......

Surely any strategy is severely hampered by a lack of funds. Being proactive is an expensive business and needs bodies and equipment.

 

[roydo]

Yup. Even here in wooly St.Helens the place has become riddled with knives in the last few years of crippling austerity and severe cuts from central funding.

Why would that make people stab people though?

 

[peteblue]

Yup. Even here in wooly St.Helens the place has become riddled with knives in the last few years of crippling austerity and severe cuts from central funding.



Surely any strategy is severely hampered by a lack of funds. Being proactive is an expensive business and needs bodies and equipment.

Being reactive costs more money and more bodies and technical equipment.....

 

[peteblue]

perhaps starting the thread to highlight your objections to a mayor of a city you don't live in was not the smartest idea

And yet here you are.....

 

[peteblue]

Excuse him for what ?

I’m stating imperical fact and I’m making excuses for him ? Why are you shielding Teresa May and the Tories on this ?

BTW I live in London and most people here understand that central government cuts are the biggest causes of this and the Mayor can only work with what his got.

He stated that just to keep 90% of the officers on the streets that were there 6 years he had to shut some 70 police stations. Not something his predecessor Boris had and in two terms that clown did nothing.

So before making silly statements old boy do some due diligence and understand what’s really happening rather than blame something on someone just for partisan politics sake, otherwise why are you not blaming every mayor in every major city ?

So you’re not excusing him then. You are holding his feet to the fire eh.....tbh it sounds like you’re excusing him....

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

But it was of a President who was distinctly unfriendly to the U.K.......the phrase “back of the queue” comes to mind.....

Hang on, your beef with the anti Trump balloon was that is mocked the leader and representative of the US, a close ally of the U.K. So you were supposedly offended that the office had been disrespected not specifically the man.

Yet you can merely brush off a buffoon like Johnson citing the ancestral heritage of Obama as the reason for his supposed ‘dislike’ of the U.K., which consisted of him daring to say that the U.K. would be barmy to leave the EU and that we’d have to get in line behind the EU when it came to getting a trade deal. He actually used the POTUS’s racial background to suggest this was the cause of his view ffs, if that’s not a disgusting insult then I don’t know what’s is.

 

[peteblue]

Hang on, your beef with the anti Trump balloon was that is mocked the leader and representative of the US, a close ally of the U.K. So you were supposedly offended that the office had been disrespected not specifically the man.

Yet you can merely brush off a buffoon like Johnson citing the ancestral heritage of Obama as the reason for his supposed ‘dislike’ of the U.K., which consisted of him daring to say that the U.K. would be barmy to leave the EU and that we’d have to get in line behind the EU when it came to getting a trade deal. He actually used the POTUS’s racial background to suggest this was the cause of his view ffs, if that’s not a disgusting insult then I don’t know what’s is.

It was a very good insult, directed at the right man, at the right time, by the right person, for the right reason. That particular President was inserting himself into British Politics and he had absolutely no right to do so. It was bad enough when Nigel Farage got involved in American Politics and he was a no mark minor politician. If our PM had suggested that the USA would be mad to leave NAFTA and that they would be at the back of the queue for trade, the furore from the USA would have been incredible....

 

[Harryflashman]

It was a very good insult, directed at the right man, at the right time, by the right person, for the right reason. That particular President was inserting himself into British Politics and he had absolutely no right to do so. It was bad enough when Nigel Farage got involved in American Politics and he was a no mark minor politician. If our PM had suggested that the USA would be mad to leave NAFTA and that they would be at the back of the queue for trade, the furore from the USA would have been incredible....

So you didn’t like a President inserting himself into British politics . Off the top of my head Trump commented on the London attacks and or the mayor in a inappropriate way , he’s commented on the London crime rate, said that May was doing a poor job of negotiating Brexit , that Farage should be GB ambassador to the US , said that Johnson would make a good PM and retweeted Britain first . I’m going to take a wild stab at it and assume you’re ok with all of those though ?

 

[peteblue]

So you didn’t like a President inserting himself into British politics . Off the top of my head Trump commented on the London attacks and or the mayor in a inappropriate way , he’s commented on the London crime rate, said that May was doing a poor job of negotiating Brexit , that Farage should be GB ambassador to the US , said that Johnson would make a good PM and retweeted Britain first . I’m going to take a wild stab at it and assume you’re ok with all of those though ?

Indeed he did, and I do agree with some of it. The big difference though is that he didn’t say these things before one of the largest democratic votes we’ve ever had. He could have said the U.K. made a mistake afterwards, but he didn’t, he tried to swing the vote which is an entirely different matter.....

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

It was a very good insult, directed at the right man, at the right time, by the right person, for the right reason. That particular President was inserting himself into British Politics and he had absolutely no right to do so. It was bad enough when Nigel Farage got involved in American Politics and he was a no mark minor politician. If our PM had suggested that the USA would be mad to leave NAFTA and that they would be at the back of the queue for trade, the furore from the USA would have been incredible....

So Johnson suggesting that Obama’s comments were motivated by his racial heritage was a “very good insult”

The case for the prosecution rests Ma’Lud.

 

[tsubaki]

And yet here you are.....

Well it is entertaining.

 

[peteblue]

So Johnson suggesting that Obama’s comments were motivated by his racial heritage was a “very good insult”

The case for the prosecution rests Ma’Lud.

Boris said that his attitude to Britain might be based on his ‘part kenyan’ heritage and ‘ancestral dislike of the British Empire’.....Obama hit back saying that he didn’t get rid of a bust of Churchill and that he thought he was a great wartime leader, but tellingly he never denied or even tried to answer the claim that he had a grudge against Britain......

The case for the defence rests Ma’Lud.......