What’s also deeply strange is the majority of people with extreme negative opinions of him don’t even live in London. Don’t they have their own metro mayors to hold to account?
Additionally why would Khan respond to Hall? I live in London. The campaign she ran was disgusting and showed she actually hates the city she wanted to be mayor of. All she wanted was a pulpit from which to spew poison. She’s a racist who also proved over and over again how unbelievably dim she is. This is why voters rejected her. Londoners recognise that leaders like her build nothing, they don’t lead, they just yell about what they hate.
She gives less than a shiny shit about victims of grooming gangs. She never mentioned it before. She just wants to goad Khan into creating a Daily Mail headline that can be interpreted as him supporting two tier policing of Muslims.
Grooming and rape are crimes. He’s not going to support either of them. All he can ever say is it’s terrible and he backs the police in dealing with it regardless of the ethnicity of the perpetrators or victims.
Nevertheless for all their screaming about ‘two tier policing’ (a phrase which has thankfully died out because everyone knew it was bollocks), the racists genuinely believe it’s ‘worse’ when the perp is Muslim and the victim white. It’s not an issue if the perp and victim are both white. Look at that guy who killed three women with a crossbow after raping one. He was jailed last week without a peep. Imagine if he’d been Asian?