Sadiq Khan

[FluffyCreme]

Is he the most unpopular mayor London has ever had? Knife crime is going up rapidly and he doesn't seem to want to discuss the murders in London. I don't know what he's up to, he seems obsessed with PRing himself and totally ineffectual. I wish we could replace him as soon as possible.

[Biber]

Khan's alright. Did you see how cool he was when those fascists tried to do a citizen's arrest on him? Can't blame him for lack of funding.

[NaughtToThreeSadOnions]

"boris is a leader" my god boris can't lead himself let alone a city, did you not notice the consertives would rather have just about any one else as leader than Boris. If Boris was a leader as you suggest then he'd be our prime minster, even Micheal Gove didn't want him as leader and stood for leadership himself to stop him even standing. Boris a leader sorry.

As for Khan pretty much boulder says, people seem to think there's no inheritance in politics when of course there is, each term does not and can not exist in isolation, it takes time for policies to come in to effect etc. Some decisions are felt immediately others may not be until long after your term ends, certainly for the first year, unless your Donald trump and you sign a million excecitve orders, policies are your predecessors, so maybe your judging Khan on Boris decisions.

However as others have said austerity has had a massive effect for both Boris and Khan, and it's not just London that have felt these massive cuts.

[Peregrina]

"boris is a leader" - so when he had the opportunity to stand for the Tory party leadership, he couldn't be bothered. A real potential leader would have been jumping at the chance. Boris is a windbag.

[MrMagnoliasBoot]

Knife crime has risen in my city, I am not blaming the major whos only job seems to be cutting ribbons I am blaming the massive cuts to the police.

[Notevilstepmother]

www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3571742/If-Blairs-so-good-at-running-the-Congo-let-him-stay-there.html

Boris and his lovely racist comments there.

[MrsDilber]

Wasn't Dick Whittington a Mayor of London? I'd chose him, or his cat, over Sadiq or Boris.

[Puffycat]

This crap about knife crime does my bloody head in! When will someone have the effing balls to say it’s black lads knifing black lads?.
Everyone is so afraid of being racist but when the facts are there why do we pussyfoot about?

[tillytown]

Nope, considering all the crap Boris left, and the massive cuts to councils and policing, he is doing a great job.

[Figmentofmyimagination]

Sadiq Khan came to my notice when he was so bloody brilliant in the referendum tv debates, even though we lost the vote in the end. Moderate and sane is actually what the country needs at the moment. Same for Ruth Davidson. I'd vote for her even though she's a conservative.

(And to be briefly unserious I can't be the only one to think Sadiq Kahn is pretty fanciable - sort of Asian George clooney, bizarrely. He certainly takes a good photo!),

[Bourdic]

What I still think about with SK is that absolutely disgusting racist campaign Zac Goldsmith ran against him with the full support of Tory Head Office. Says it all doesn’t it - ZG who loves this country so much that for years he benefited from non dom tax status.

[PrincessoftheSea]

I rate him and its the Tories cutting the funding. Also agree with Puffycat about the knife crime. The capital is safe unless you are part of a gang and black.

[Grasslands]

oddly enough ever since the knife crimes stats 3 weeks ago, there has been an anti sadiq tread posted weekly with the same agenda...

[SaucyJane]

I couldn't bear ken livingstone. I loathe boris (my phone wants to auto correct that to virus!), but I did think he did quite a good job of being mayor overall. Far better there than in his current role. Shudder.

I disliked goldsmith and I find Khan rather ineffectual/forgettable, but an honest and likeable man.

Basically, it doesn't seem to be a role that has attracted a standout candidate so far. Maybe because most politicians prefer a shot at the bigger roles just down the road in sw1?

[sleep5]

I've got a friend who works at city hall - she says the general consensus amongst staff is that he is a lot more competent than Boris Johnson was.

The govt really need to provide more police to deal with knife crime and acid attacks rather than continually reducing their numbers. At least they've restarted stop & search.

In London this week there were thousands of police in the streets for CHOGM but you never see them around local streets.

[bridgetoc]

Khan is a real lightweight politician. He will achieve nothing. Good or bad......... He will say what he thinks people want to hear, but never does anything except get himself selfied at all the best events. A virtue signaller of the worst kind I'm afraid.

[merrymouse]

No. With such strong competition from the two previous mayors, he is really going to have to up his game if he wants to become London’s most unpopular mayor.

[Mannix]

Agree with merrymouse. He'll have to get a lot worse before he's more unpopular than Ken! And I know everyone loved Boris when he was mayor but he has seriously dived in popularity since then.

[NotACleverName]

Boris "watermelon smiles, got stuck on a zipwire" Johnson is a leader? Fucking hell, that's the funniest thing I've read all day and it's only 7:30am.

[n0ne]

I think he's doing a great job, actually.

[Joanna57]

YANBU at all.

When the words that 'terrorism is part & parcel of city life' he lost the any little respect he had from MILLIONS of people.

The man is racist.

[bridgetoc]

I know everyone loved Boris when he was mayor but he has seriously dived in popularity since then.

Still managed to get the majority of the country to vote Brexit though.......

[coconuttella]

However, I do think it's a pretty poor show to have run on a campaign of affordable housing and to have built absolutely none so far.

I don’t live in London and don’t really have an opinion on SK, but I think you’re being unfair on affordable housing delivery. He’s been in office two years. Yes, you can build a house in a few months, but the whole process from start to finish: land acquisition, planning, design, procurement of contractors and only then building the houses will take two years as a minimum. That’s not slow going, it’s just how long things take. It’s taken us well over a year to go from initially employing an architect to completing a extension. Judge him at the end of his term on this.

[Pigleteer]

Boris is not ‘a leader’. You’re confusing public school educated middle aged white man and ‘leadership qualities’ I fear.....

[StealthPolarBear]

His pet project is air pollution isn't it? How's he doing on that?

[bridgetoc]

I think he's doing a great job, actually.

What has he actually done though? Says plenty, but does nothing. He is the sort of politician that should only ever be in opposition and have no power.