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

[Luckymum20]

So the past few days I've unfortunately gone down a bit of a rabbit hole of clips about the Mayor of London.

From what I have seen the man is an utter buffoon who has done nothing to improve London, in fact quite the opposite.

Strikes increasing. Homelessness increasing. Crime - off the charts. Congestion zone charges etc.

And don't get me started on the deputy who seems to be from another planet!

I am not from London, so just wondering if anyone at all has anything positive at all to say about this catastrophe of man!

Can you say more about this?

Probably "believed" by those who don't want to accept that a brown muslim man might have been elected on his own merits.

Top tip, OP: get your news from proper news sources not random videos on online sites. Lest you run the risk of being thought a complete, and very gullible, buffoon. With, possibly, something of an issue with skin colour and religion.

And you're a sad little troll with no life. Take a hike. And don't come back.

Nope. He’s useless. 🙄

I know a fair amount about electoral fraud, and it's not so widespread that it would cause someone to be elected by a significant majority three times over. Unless we lived in Russia or North Korea perhaps. Khan received the largest number of votes (1.3m) that any UK politician has personally received to date.

Well, BJ wasted tons of money on the "garden bridge" project for one thing. Most of the negativity seems to be from actively racist foreigners who don't live in London.

In what way is he "anti British" exactly?

Or are you just saying this because he is brown and Muslim?

Londoner here who voted for him each time.

I don’t have kids or live in the outer boroughs so wasn’t really conscious of FSM and the super loop but it is great to hear that they have made such a difference. We needed the ULEZ and he was right to push it through (and he stuck to it even though it made him unpopular with Labour voters - I was out campaigning and it was a very hard sell).

Homicide is down during his time in office which is a huge achievement. Crime overall in London has risen but it is a nuanced picture, because this is a national trend so it is hardly something which can be attributable to his time as mayor: https://www.statista.com/topics/4627/crime-in-london/#topicOverview

I don’t agree with his TWAW stance, but I’m not a single issue voter. He can be pretty thin skinned and angry when challenged on his views on TWAW but he’s far from alone on that (and generally the you tube clips of him being snippy in London Assembly are put together without context from what must literally be thousands of hours of footage - they are hardly a fair picture).

What you are saying is factually and demonstrably untrue.

Population of the inner boroughs: 3.5million
Population of the outer boroughs: 5.5million

So how did he get voted in if he only got votes from the inner boroughs?

If the concept of numbers is too complex for you, there's a pretty drawing on this page that shows you're wrong too - https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SEI_202627199-8008.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646 Or are you under the impression that Richmond, Merton, Barnet, Enfield and Barking are all inner boroughs?

You know, if you have to make stuff up to bolster your argument, maybe your argument is bollocks.

He doesn’t set the total amount of money the Met Police get - that’s decided by the Home Office. He’s made some big calls on the Met and I think he’s been correct to do so.

Plus TfL has done well at integrating bikes, trains, Crossrail etc - it is in general a very effective transport organisation (with an industrial relations challenge that’s true - but that’s common across the UK and hardly the Mayor’s fault).

Main point though - Stop watching stupid videos on YouTube - they’ll turn your brain to mush.

And cleaner air.

In what way?

That sounds very much like something Trump supporters said when Biden won because they didn't like the outcome of the election.
Unless backed up with actual facts it's nonsense

Ruined it in what way? Specifics, please, with data from reliable sources.

Completely ridiculous idea to have 2 mayors. The point is to join up London wide services like TfL and the Met Police. How would it work with two mayors who wanted different things? Pointless……

You clearly have an agenda and an entrenched view, OP, because it’s notable you have not engaged with any positive comments.

Yes certainly, I have watched many debates he's partaken in and one specifically stands out which is a debate with Susan Hall, she was asking completely appropriate questions and he just laughed and was belitting her as he's done with other woman. His behaviour makes it look as though he thinks woman are beneath him.

He is constantly bleating on about protests about migration and the devision of the country, the treatment of the police. He only ever refers to these protests though baring in mind there were 25 arrests at 13th September protests, 890 and Palestine action protest and although not a protest there were 423 arrests at Notting Hill Carnival but he fails to mention the latter two. He also shuts people down completely when anyone mentions the rise in crime in London especially knife crime. He is in denial that the country & the capital are in a rapid decline. Even Mexican citizens have been advised not to travel to the UK.

He condemns any normal British person who has genuine concerns about the current state of the country. Everyone has a right to protest and express their concerns about things that are important to them and one group should not be singled out. People are raising very valid concerns and just get called racist of fascist and it's disgraceful. All he sees in Tommy Robinson and not the everyday hardworking Brits from all walks of life & faiths who are worried for the future of this country.

Yep, and we can all guess at what is driving the OP's entrenched views. I don't think this thread panned out in the way that she had hoped.

Have I mentioned anything about his race 🤔 NO!! Please don't try and throw that shit out. I said ut because I believe he is a very shitty person and a God awful Mayor

He's not perfect but he's a pretty good mayor and as a Londoner I rate him.

I do get tired of non Londoners telling me London is a crime ridden hellhole, especially when they seem to be laying it all at the mayor's door. I suspect it and most of the problems besetting London have far more to do with gross inequality, whatever any mayor's policing policies. Also violent crime is actually falling.

😂😂 sorry Mrs Khan.
Get a grip, not everyone has to like him you know!!

.....no, it hasn't.

Yeah, troll, because the large numbers of people who voted for Khan in three elections and now benefit from cleaner air, improved transport services, more social housing, better-fed children, declining crime rates and continuous positive messaging about their worth as citizens of London are all very stupid and OnLy yOU see what he's "really up to". Although you can't actually explain what he's "really up to". Presumably because YouTube and Facebook haven't told you yet.

@Everythingwillbeokeventually44 All he sees in Tommy Robinson and not the everyday hardworking Brits from all walks of life & faiths who are worried for the future of this country.

What about the everyday hardworking Brits from all walks of life & faiths who are worried for the future of this country but think that London specifically is fortunate to have a mayor who's doing a pretty good job on the whole, despite facing government cuts to London funding and the generalised hatred ranged against him by people who, amongst other things, seem to think that he should be solving problems that are nothing to do with the Mayor of London?