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

She's never asked me. I no longer live in the UK but when I did I used to visit for work regularly. I now return 2 or 3 times a year to visit friends, mainly in east and south London.

My very unscientific opinion is that over the last 10 or so years, London has started to feel much better from a visitor's point of view. It's cleaner (I have asthma so can really appreciate the cleaner air), it's easier to get around and just feels more at ease with itself. I feel safer than I used to too. I walked back to my hotel from a wedding in the early hours earlier this year, I'm not sure I would have done that 10+ years ago.

30 million tourists per year is not 'dead'

This thread is epitomising this 30 Rock scene. Just substitute ‘Muslim’ for ‘Jewish’.

Ooh, another one!

Tell me, what it is that he's said/done that makes you think he's got a height complex? And what is it that you know about the every day lives of True Londoners given that you live in both the UK and the US?

And yes, I'm entirely expecting that just like all the other vague accusations from pro-Trump/Reform posters on this thread, this request for clarification will also go unanswered.

What a thoroughly unpleasant and shallow thing to say.

It's embarrassing really. I speak to foreign tourists in London and they try not to say how disappointed they are with London because they don't want to insult you.

giggling at this. Do we reckon @Toomanywaterbottles is going around doing official interviews? Or that tourists just come up to them to speak hide their disappointment?

FWIW I work in a very central area of London and the sheer amount of tourists drive me nuts - as they always did - and as it should be.

And of course you have no agenda here at all.

You're a very prolific right wing poster. I don't even have to AS you - I know you well.

Thoughly unpleasant little man with a height complex. Cares more about his agenda then the everyday lives of true Londoners.

When did you move out of London? https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/london/5372688-does-anybody-like-london?reply=145657727&utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Please give specific examples as to why Khan is the worst Mayor of London, so we can see why you think that way.

Incidentally, what are your views on Johnson (a) refusing to fly back from holiday in 2011 when riots broke out (b) giving hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money to an American woman he was shagging and (c) wasting £50 million (unrecoverable) of taxpayers money on the so-called Garden bridge?

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

Londoner and can say he is a shame and he is the worst Mayor since they started having one. The second one was Livingstone. Taxpayers waste of money on Khan. He also has an entourage to protect him wherever he goes. A joke gone too far.

I understand why it's tempting to trust your personal experience about how busy somewhere appears to be, but the increased number of tourists - counted by an organisation in whose interests it is to be accurate about it - says otherwise. It's the modern way to refute 'experts' but once you have the numbers it's surely normal to accept it is more likely that you are in town on quieter days or in an area that is less fashionable than it used to be (like Oxford Street) than that they are wrong, because you haven't counted people (and nor have I), but they have.

Please explain to me how "I can get a return to London plus three stops at the same price now that I used to, or I can get 1/3 discount on national rail but the tube still costs the same (albeit now capped because thanks TFL)" equals your original claim of "travel costs have doubled"?

Where were you coming in from and how many tube zones were you travelling across to make that make any kind of sense? I've tried a few examples that I've travelled and, frankly, I think you're talking utter bollocks but I'd welcome you proving me wrong.

I'm in the north. We also have seen huge increases in homelessness and crime, also lots of strikes. You're talking about national issues, not London issues.

I've been to the West End just recently. Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square, Cambridge Circus, Seven Dials etc were all, quite frankly, fucking heaving.

It's true that the kind of big store retail that predominated Oxford Street is struggling somewhat but that's nothing special about London, it's endemic. Amazon etc and out-of-town retail parks have massively affected high street stores around the country. Pick a town centre anywhere in the UK and you'll see big empty site that used to house department stores. That you think London is unusual in this is almost comical.

Walking around central London in the evening is certainly not dead. Maybe a Sunday evening.

Because Oxford Street IS a dump that's crying out for regeneration. But there are so many really lovely places that nobody from London ever goes there. Except maybe to Selfidges or the big Primark at Marble arch.

You can use your railcard on the tube. I do and so do my young adult daughters.

WTF? You’ve gone down a rabbit hole of propaganda and now you’re asking what he’s “actually done” even though you’re not from London. For starters we all have free school meals and excellent, frequent and cheap public transport. Do you have that where you live?

As I said London Travelcards. Which is the return journey to London and unlimited travel on the tube (zones 1-6) and buses. Right now a return to London and three stops on the tube is the same as a travelcard. Added onto the fact that with national rail services you can use a railcard to discount prices by 1/3, which you can't do on the tube.

It's not a surprise that they had to be saved otherwise it would've been another nail in the coffin for London leisure.

Because tourists go to other places than Oxford Street which since the big stores like House of Fraser and Debenhams have left has become a shadow of itself. Other parts of London have replaced it as desirable shopping destinations.

I can see with my own eyes and have noticed that (particularly the West End) is much sparser than it used to be. Footfall is definitely down in great numbers, if everything is so great then why is Khan talking about changing Oxford Street to bring people back?

What was the journey that you were making that would have led to your travel costs doubling with PAYG? And was that the only option available to you?

People talk about doing research and then make uneducated comments like that!

The PAYG fares are capped at a level where my travel costs would've doubled due to another one of his hostile schemes. I like most people would've just avoided London completely, it's telling that outside of London he is very unpopular and has led London to get a very poor reputation.

A month or so ago I followed Google Maps' directions that ended up with me driving north over Waterloo Bridge and up Kingsway, Southampton Row etc at 10pm one weekday night. That was a mistake. I was amazed at how many people were out and about (and also how pretty the lit-up buildings were around Aldwych). Camden was rammed as always but even past Kentish Town it was busy.

I spent decades working in Holborn, Soho, Fitzrovia, Camden and Farringdon as well as living in Whitechapel, Tufnell Park, Highgate, Tottenham plus growing up in various bits of south London. and it was never as busy as that when I was there.