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

The obsession non Londoners have with our mayor is really creepy.

Re: phone theft: "The Metropolitan Police announced on Tuesday that it had dismantled an organised international crime gang responsible for 40 per cent of all phone thefts in the capital." this was in the news yesterday.
Not many people remember that the first thing Sadiq did was to change advertising policy regarding indecent or offensive content of ads on TFL, specifically banning "body-shaming" adverts (those promoting "unhealthy or unrealistic" body images). I remember that as I used to commute to work by train and tube.
OP if you were genuinely interested in finding some answers then your first search result would have been this site. Please go and read it as not all were mentioned so far.
https://sadiq.london/manifesto/sadiqs-top-20-achievements/
Like addimg 1400 emission free busses, half a million new trees planted in London (we have more trees in London than peoplemliving in it! Did you know that? And many mpre initiatives.
You could even go further and read his press releases.
https://www.london.gov.uk/media-centre/mayors-press-releases

OP, do you have equally strong interest in the activities of Andy Burnham as as mayor of Greater Manchester?

Or if you want to look at a genuine wrong un, you could read a range of high quality well researched journalism into the activities of Ben Houchen, Tees Valley mayor and the Teeswork project.

If you want a real laugh Google the last Conservative Mayoral candidate Susan Hall. See what she stands for.

Also Shaun Bailey - who was partying with billionaire Nick Candy during lockdown.

Free school meals
Improved air quality. Really noticeable compared to other bustling capital cities.
Bus fares.
Stats suggests Crime has reduced in London this yr.
He has been voted in numerous times by people who actually live in London..

If he is hated in London why did we reelect him three times? It can’t just be mumsnetters voting for him…

Just because someone else “had an idea” doesn’t mean it will then automatically happen…. There is quite a lot of work involved to get these things to actually happen…

If London hates him, why does the electorate keep voting for him?

But apart from ALL that... What good has he done?...

Sadiq is hated in London, only on here is he revered. Free school meals?! No, that was cross party policy. London’s property market is crashing, investors are deserting London and the trains are constantly cancelled due to suicides and strikes. Apart from that it is all going swimmingly.

Superloop
electric buses
ULEZ

Pedestrianization of Oxford St long overdue. Good idea.

Do not know the Bakerloop!

Why do people hate him? He’s worked selflessly for years in public service as the MP in Tooting and later Mayor

He could have had a well paid job in legal sector

like previous peiple have said, he introduced the ulez,

hes an honest and decent man. A million times better than his predecessor who was in the job to promote himself

Every single person I know who hates Khan doesn't live in London and doesn't visit regularly - the Londoners I know are largely neutral to positive about him, with of course the natural criticism that's aimed at anyone in office.
I'm not a Londoner but a frequent visitor for work and people local to me in the Midlands honestly think I'm likely to get mugged or murdered going to the office for a couple of days! London is a fantastic vibrant city with all of the positives and negatives of capitals the world over, and Khan is leading it as well as can be expected considering the economic challenges.

I’m going on the Bakerloop tomorrow. I’m going to shimmy along the Old Kent Road and glide through Elephant and Castle! I plan to sit on the top deck and wave to the peasants as I hurtle along with silent authority.

Yes, I know.

What a lovely positive thread. Thanks for posting, OP, it's fab to see all these great things about London all in one place.

It is a mystery, isn't it? Often you find that the same people go on about Londonistan and no go areas.

What could the connection be 🤔

literally no idea where all these Khan lovers are coming from. Pretty much everyone in Greater London thinks he’s awful.
If Greater London was split from Inner (which it should be) he would never win in the outer parts as he is always trounced by the conservatives (despite most of their candidates being utterly useless)
And it’s because of things like this-
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-budget-city-hall-met-police-tube-mayoral-election-susan-hall-b1133141.html

he absolutely hates women and there are numerous videos of him in the assembly speaking to them like shit.

I've lived here for 40-odd years and sometimes I can't believe it myself. It's incredible and keeps getting better, Superloop etc (whoever came up with Bakerloop is a genius).

@RockaLock If you think Johnson would have pushed the ULEZ through then you are as mad as a box of frogs.

I really, REALLY, want to go on the superloop. I'm saving it for my birthday 😀

@Holdonforsummer Spot on. There have been for a while. I really think it’s a sustained and organised thing.

Oh yeah, his secret plan to boost the economy and make every Londoner better off. I forgot to mention that

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-london-growth-plan-jobs-boost-economy-productivity-b1213492.html

Is it just me or there more right wing/hate threads recently

Not just you.

Some of the things that PPs have listed as Sadiq Khan’s achievements aren’t his at all.

He became Mayor of London in 2016.

Elizabeth line - construction started in 2009, way before he was mayor. It is purely coincidence that it opened during his term. I mean, if you are going to list that as one of his achievements, you should surely also attribute the 3 year delay and £4bn overspend to him as well. (Yes, I know they were nothing to do with him - but that’s the point, isn’t it).

ULEZ - was proposed by Boris Johnson in 2014 and originally scheduled to start in 2020. Admittedly Khan pushed ahead with it, but it was not his idea.

Some tube drivers are also RMT members and so the RMT does organise underground driver strikes. There have been plenty of tube strikes since Khan became mayor! and as he is ultimately in charge of TfL, yes, they come under his remit. But tube drivers would strike no matter who was mayor, they always want more and more money, so 🤷‍♀️

He’s not as terrible as some people make out, but he’s certainly not as good as some people seem to think either.