Sadiq Khan. Can anyone tell me something positive about what he has done?

Yes. As Prince Harry discovered, you can't just demand police protection. He has to have permanent security (he travelled by puic transport during his first term) and I imagine it's extremely inconvenient for him and his family

Being a country bumpkin, I had no idea about this. I've just looked it up, and it looks fantastic.

When I lived in Croydon (30-odd years ago) getting to Heathrow by public transport was a nightmare, now it would be a 10-minute walk and a bus ride.

Genius.

"Far left" 🤣

Have only read the OP posts (wish I hadn't) but I suspect their main problem with him is that he's brown.

They are just too frit to say so.

Also @Luckymum20 BJ closed a bunch of fire stations when he was in office. He wasted so much money on vanity projects like the cable car and Garden Bridge. The cable car is only still running because profits from the Tube and Overground are part funding it. (I work for TfL)

He’s actually a leader. So he sees a big problem and pushes through policies that work even if they are unpopular. Unlike most politicians he does what’s right for the long term and not what the focus group says will make him popular in the media. The Labour government could learn a lot. I would have liked to see Sadiq manage welfare reform, for example.

He indirectly made TfL a Menopause friendly workplace.

He holds Question Times with the public.

I feel safer riding my bike around London.

He aaw that the Garden Bridge was costing far too much money and cancelled it.

I don't like him as a man. He's arrogant and has a superiority complex. But I can't deny what he's done for London.

A lot of police forces, including mine on the South Coast, have been closing police stations or massively reducing opening hours for years.

It frees up officers to actually go out and do police work, and also meant they raised capital from selling the sites. My local police station was sold and converted into flats.

It makes perfect sense to me.

Yes. As Prince Harry discovered, you can't just demand police protection. He has to have permanent security (he travelled by puic transport during his first term) and I imagine it's extremely inconvenient for him and his family

This exactly. Don’t ask the question if you’re not prepared to listen to the answer

This, absolutely this.

The air quality in London has improved significantly directly due to the actions taken by Sadiq Khan. Some people have forgotten just how appalling the smog was.

could you gv done examples of his ineffectiveness and thickness, please?

It’s amazing isn’t it, the working classes cowered whilst the rich elite ripped off the whole nation with corruption yet these working class “normal” politicians can’t sneeze without being called useless, lazy, thick etc.

So people who are pro him are listing his achievements and posting links, and the few that are opposed are arguing points based on these facts -‘he’s odious’, ‘thick as mince’.

Don't we all love a good discussion.

Who do you think is breathing the clean air. Just rich people?

Thank you for this thread. It’s been a great reminder of all the positive changes he has made. Also that I’m not completely surrounded by the thick and ignorant who would prefer to line the pockets of Johnson and his friends letting him get away with lies worth hundreds of millions. The kind of people that come online to say it’s the usual suspects when a foreign looking person is in the news but are strangely quiet when it’s (to them) a native looking person. The kind that celebrate ulez cameras being blown up and ask about go fund me for the perpetrator even though there is shrapnel in a child’s bedroom, damaged cars and property around it. I will absolutely be voting for Khan again.

A lot of this is because he and his family get constant death threats so needs enhanced security.

Tube drivers are still on strike every other week

Thick as mince 😂 you have no idea

Nothing. He is an absolute disaster. Totally ineffective and thick as mince. But the far left love him so they’ll defend him on this thread.

If you don’t live in London on why are you so fixated on our mayor? Do you conduct deep research into the leadership of your local council and if not why? What are your views on the other metropolitan mayors.

This fixation on Khan is deeply strange.

So you don’t even live in london so how does it affect you then?!

for me my kids get free school meals

i can cycle everywhere with my kids on the back of my bike because of the safe routes and less cars on the roads

id vote for him again for sure

Life of Brian springs to mind ....

what have the Romans ever done for us? ...

Well...apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, roads, the fresh water system, public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?"

ULEZ - my asthmatic child who was frequently hospitalised hasn’t been admitted to hospital since it came into effect in our area. I was skeptical about it making a difference but actually my child was being poisoned and he protected her.

Do you live in London, OP? I don't, but I visit frequently, and I have noticed a lot of positive changes in the time that Sir Sadiq Khan has been mayor. The centre is a much more pleasant place to walk and cycle and bus transport is really efficient and cheap. The people I know in London are happy with the free school meals programme and the investments in youth clubs, and they tell me that there is more social housing now available.