To think Sadiq Khan is a hypocrite?

[Newyeargrinch]

He's been banging on about climate change and the environment all year and introduced the ULEZ scheme which he claims will clean up London's air (while also causing financial hardship to those who can least afford it in a cost of living crisis). Then he spends millions on a fireworks display sending pollutants into the skies above London??

I’m sure he has lovely things to say about you too 🙄

I am more worried about your spelling.

Immigration isn’t under Sadiq Khan’s control, it’s under Tory control.

Past home Secretaries who have been responsible for funding and overseeing the policing of London. MAY - Tory. PATEL- Tory. BRAVERMAN - Tory. And now, the joker with his antonymic name CLEVERLY - Tory. During their reign of cutting costs and belittling the police there has been a corresponding rise in crime of all kinds. Naturally, this is all the fault of Sadiq Khan - Labour.

Where do you think new build flats should be built if not on old industrial/brown land between Heathrow and central London along the M4 corridor? There is so much public green space in London.

Offset by planting trees? That'll be CO2 then, which OP didn't say anything about, she wrote pollutants. Does the FOI deal with particulates and metal oxides? Oxides of nitrogen?

I don't like Khan but I do like fireworks and if it was up to me I'd continue to have the display.

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What a silly response. It is entirely irrelevant what he might think of that poster. Khan is London’s elected mayor, he serves at the will of people, therefore they are entitled to express their opinions of him however negative they might be.

She’s “thick” or a “loonie” (sic) for stating facts?

@BIossomtoes The fact that the poster wrote of being more preoccupied about my typo than the London stabbings?

You’re saying I’m thick, Sadiq Khan’s thick, yet it’s taken you 3 attempts to write the post I’ve quoted and it’s still not coherent 🙄

Thanks Blossom

I’d love to know what @Southpoint does for a living if she can call a man with Sadiq Khan’s career history ‘thick’. Of course she can criticise him, but some basis in reality would be less silly, no?

@ChardonnaysBeastlyCat I live in SE London (not too far from Peckham in fact) and we have plenty of squirrels to spare (two of the little bastards startled me yesterday morning by popping their heads round the
open bathroom window). Perhaps we could lend you some of you are feeling a squirrel deficit?

Plenty of foxes round our endz too.

She can call him whatever she likes as long as it’s legal. He’s serving at the will of the people and obviously likes to do so as he keeps standing for reelection. It matters not a jot what she does for a living or even what her own education level is. This idea that you have to be a certain kind of person yourself, with a certain level of employment or education to be able to criticise those who lead you is pure classism - as a Labour supporter surely you’re against that?

Well, start the year as you mean to go on. Ferrari on LBC is giving Khan a bashing, as we would expect. Frothers who don't live in London have very vituperative opinions on SK. Guess what? Everything he does is wrong. I suppose the focus has to be 'SK bad' as there is nothing remotely positive to say about the Tory candidate. There'll be loads of this old guff for months now. Let's brighten it up by hearing Susan Hall's plans to combat all the ills brought about by SK. No fibbing Susan. Be brave and tell us the truth. 😂As if.

Funny how you and Southpoint are allowed views, but I’m not.

Southpoint has called me thick and a loonie, anything to say on that?

And please don’t assume which political party I support, you know nothing about me.

Then why has air pollution in London dropped so substantially?

There are local firework displays on November 5th. We went to one. Look harder.

What has gone in some boroughs are the big public free displays in e.g. Brockwell Park but that would be due to the Tories slashing council budgets and them having no money. Zero to do with City Hall.

Indeed. Local firework displays in London haven't been "banned". It is juat some councils are struggling for money and made the decision not to hold free displays.

I live in Lambeth (not a rich borough like previously mentioned Notting Hill).

There is a massive tree planting scheme happening. 8 trees were planted along my street in the week before Christmas. It is not a long street, that was about one every cars width.

NeverDropYourMooncup · Yesterday 13:07

Why not look at why the ULEZ was expanded? It was a specific condition set by the Government of additional funding as a result of the vast sums lost by TfL as a direct result of Government decisions regarding Covid lockdowns.

Yes, but the frothing loons at the Daily Mail & Express don't know that / just lie about it, because they hate him. Just like they pretend that he could stop knife crime by clicking his fingers, but would rather hamstring the Police with wokery and snowflakery.

As if he could sack the head of the Met, like some big city American mayor. Seriously, the absolute lies they print is staggering!

What the bail out said was: The immediate reintroduction of the London Congestion Charge, LEZ and ULEZ and urgently bring forward proposals to widen the scope and levels of these charges, in accordance with the relevant legal powers and decision-making processes.

The proposal for the expansion was already there prior to the bail out.

The thing is about these so called money making schemes, you need drivers to pay the charge. Given that in london, car ownership is dropping, that's not really a good business model - or just maybe it's about reducing pollution for the thousands of londoners that live there.