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

Interesting. Where did you hear about this?

Khan does get horrible pressure from some Muslim groups about his family. I think he has two daughters and they do not veil or cover themselves in live in a strict way.

Khan has a security detail because the racist halfwits who don't like his skin colour or religion keep making death threats.

The irony of someone disliking Khan because of his security team, which is only necessary because people don't like him, has quite amused me, in a dark sort of way.

I read something a while ago that said his security arrangements are on a par with those of the king and prime minister. It's really alarming that a city mayor, whose powers are relatively limited, can be so hated imo.

Iirc, he's hated by militant Islamists as well as by racists, so extremists on both sides. I'll see if I can find the article.

I didn't know that.

Does that include old people's railcards? I'm going to London next month, and it would be handy if it did.

But you can literally see the women calling him out for ignoring them? Even if the bits of him rolling his eyes etc are not in response to those comments (which is unlikely as the enormous PR team that Khan employs that massively increased when he took over and we pay for would probably insist the video was taken down) then are you saying those women are lying?

Ok - so even by your assessment 3/4 of the explanations suggest he is a dreadful person!

Actually, as a committed Labour supporter, one of my issues with Starmer is that he sometimes appears very patronising when he addresses women!

it is impossible to comment in detail on your video because there is no way of knowing which Khan comment goes with which other comment. And the motivation and intent of the publishers of the video is clear. Presumably there are plenty of longer more coherent clips you can share?

The video might indicate that he is disrespecting women. It might mean that he is disrespectful to anyone who questions him. It might mean he is incredibly rude generally. Or it might be a video of carefully selected very short out of context clips created by his political opponents. Who knows?

At repeated points in the video you see women commenting about how he continually talks over them and refuses to answer their questions. Do you think they are making it up?

I’ve never seen any women say similar about Starmer for example.

Around my way it's the gammon vigilante types who don't like Khan. The same ones who put up flags ar half mast on lamp posts. Some of the. Spend their weekends trying to vandalise Ulez cameras too. Morons.

I live in an "outer borough' and I want to keep Khan. I love how mich cleaner everything is now because of Ulez. Particularly as both my kids have asthma. It's been noticeable how they've had less asthma atta less the last couple of years. Also free school meals? Yes please!

It’s a video of no-context clips that might or might not indicate what you say it indicates.

Lol at the idea of a separate mayor for outer London.

It is literally a video of Khan disrespecting women repeatedly and those women calling him out for it. How does that not prove the point - feel free to find a video of him treating male elected officials like shit if you wish. He refuses to answer valid questions in the video too, you can see him stalling until the time runs out to the frustration of the LIb Dem assembly member. I don’t see how anyone can watch that video and not see what an utter cunt he is. He doesn’t think women have any right to question him at all.

And why is it such a dumb idea to want different Mayors when areas have very different want and needs. Ideally the Mayor would just be for the Inner Boroughs anyway and then they can pay for him!

Some of these posts are quite outlandish.

Travelcards into London from surrounding counties - why on earth should Londoners be paying for those who don’t even live here to travel here? Of course that should be scrapped.

Decline of Oxford Street - Oxford Street is a high street just like many others in the country, with the same shops, and it faces the same challenges as all the others. There’s only Selfridges left of the old guard now as a vaguely “destination” shop. Even decades ago, I was baffled that anyone would travel all the way into London just to go shopping on Oxford Street - unless you were a teen girl aiming for the bigTopShop. Oxford Street is still heaving with people, though - loads of tourists.

An example of London's 'decline'. I went to a gig in St Pancras Old Church last night, after a really good Chinese meal.
It's not that long ago that the area around and behind King's Cross was seriously sketchy. No way you'd walk round there after dark. It was pretty much synonymous with red light district.
Now? It's bloody lovely. Coal Drops Yard is fantastic. Bustling with shops and restaurants and the hq of Google.
See also Battersea Power Station and the area around there. There's so much more to London than the West End.

Eh? I don’t think I said this…

Nope. His main achievement seems to be taking the credit for the work of others.

The ULEZ was planned well before SK came to power and the LTNs were designed and implemented by local councils (TFL not helping in this process).

I have not RTFT but I’d be surprised if anybody thinks the Met Police has improved.

Sadly the alternatives in 2024 were even worse.

Oh, a video from that YouTube...which does nothing to back up whatever point it is you think you're making, but does indicate quite alot about your willingness to believe any old guff you trip over on t'internet.

Still, you're the genius who thinks that London should have two Mayors, one in charge of the outer ring of "Outer" London, so...

Agree with all of this and I lived in London, bought a property there, zone 2, worked and gave birth to two children - both went to a nursery just off Soho Square - GASP

Andrew Boff who is a Tory and is chairing here is a massive misogynist and TRA btw so unsurprisingly supports the mayor.

A few people have suggested that Khan is not misogynistic in the assembly, he just speaks to Susan Hall rudely because she’s thick etc. please find a video in which he speaks to various female MPs rudely including Lib Dems and a Green Party Leader. And he repeatedly refuses to answer simple questions. Very few people give a crap about his race(I’m sure some do) - it’s his smug arrogance in questions that annoys people.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zU1Dx5PYV9Y

Are you seriously suggesting that Khan is bad for London because he is short? How embarrassing for you.
He's actually great for all the ACTUAL things that people have repeatedly pointed out. Frankly I vouldnt care less what he looks like. Why would it be relevant?

ULEZ. As an asthma sufferer my quality of life and breathing is so much improved since this was brought in. He capped prices for bus journeys made within an hour on different buses. Superloop. Brought in night tubes for some lines. London not perfect but I don’t think it ever has been, in my opinion he’s doing a decent job.

What are 'true londoners' i wonder?