Jools
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2 hours ago, keelansgrandad said:You are lower than a snake's belly. Do you not see the irony with what Israel is doing? I know you think you are clever but you show very little sign of it.
And you couldn't even admit you got it wrong about the newly, popular, re-elected Mayor of London.
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the police had his "full backing" for their zero-tolerance approach, and Londoners could expect to see "high visibility police patrols".
"Hate crimes are inexcusable and have no place in our city," he said.
Quite right, Mr Atherton 👍 God forbid he upsets his voters...
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8 minutes ago, A Load of Squit said:More lies.
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11 minutes ago, keelansgrandad said:You are lower than a snake's belly. Do you not see the irony with what Israel is doing? I know you think you are clever but you show very little sign of it.
And you couldn't even admit you got it wrong about the newly, popular, re-elected Mayor of London.
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the police had his "full backing" for their zero-tolerance approach, and Londoners could expect to see "high visibility police patrols".
"Hate crimes are inexcusable and have no place in our city," he said.
Because Cressida and the Mayor of London have really got a handle on knife crime and crime in general haven't they 🤪
London has worse crime stats than New York, ffs.
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4 minutes ago, Deptford Yellow said:Big nose ??
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Hamas rockets vaulting into Israel as we speak...
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17 minutes ago, Well b back said:That doesn’t answer the question, why did you lie ?
Because I hadn't witnessed big nose saying anything on the media doesn't make me a liar.
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Just now, TheGunnShow said:You mean, move off land which isn't theirs in the first place.
Do you think Hamas and the Palestinians would leave Israel alone if the latter gave up the West Bank and the Gaza Strip?
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1 minute ago, Well b back said:The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the police had his "full backing" for their zero-tolerance approach.
That'll upset his voters 😉
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1 minute ago, keelansgrandad said:Don't talk rubbish.
Do you think Hamas and the Palestinians would leave Israel alone if the latter gave up the West Bank and the Gaza Strip?
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2 minutes ago, ricardo said:They've been at it since 1947 so I don't see any solution coming on any conceivable timescale.
It doesn't help that the Palestinians/Hamas have always rejected diplomatic solutions.
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56 minutes ago, ricardo said:No words of condemnation from the Mayor of London as yet 🤔
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8 hours ago, Herman said:Blowing up a building because it housed numerous news agencies and for no other reason is simply a crime. Absolutely no justification for it at all. The Israeli government has billions worth of advanced weaponry and intelligence so targetting of this and a refugee camp are deliberate escalations of a war they provoked.
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😮 😳 🤣
Later on the White House released ‘take two’ of Biden’s threat:
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8 minutes ago, BroadstairsR said:I worry about you Bill. You seem so pent up and angry all the time. The aggression and constant abusiveness is not normal. Relax, old boy.
It's because his body is lacking protein - especially his brain...
No amount of soy milk will ever replace the benefits of a couple of medium-rare sirloins per week 👍
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1 hour ago, Jools said:I've found Horsefly's real identity 👇
Au contraire, Beckett, every bone in your body is racist --- You're an anti-Semitic Anglophobe...
That's why you, the Labour Party and its supporters will remain the minority ad infinitum 👍
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Just now, ricardo said:Posted without comment.
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I've found Horsefly's real identity 👇
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8 hours ago, ricardo said:Looks like the media have been duped by a crazy....I think the Metro is going to have to publish an apology.
Downing Street believes the claim is completely bogus and the CCJ should not have been issued.
The case was brought by an Yvonne Hobbs against 'The Rt Hon Boris Johnson' and she gave her reason for the debt as: 'Committed repeated defamation.'
She used the Online Civil Money Claims service to state that the Prime Minister owed her £535.
But the Mail can reveal Miss Hobbs, 59, of Leicestershire, is a Covid conspiracy theorist who has launched multiple claims against Mr Johnson and public institutions. She often sends copies of her complaints to the Queen, the BBC, the House of Commons and House of Lords.
She has launched legal actions against Marks and Spencer, Royal Mail, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and numerous public companies.Nobody on here using "Yvonne Hobbs" as an extra log in, I hope.😉
Has the BBC given this news the same prominence as their gloating over the initial story? 🙃
And still the Boris-hating, armchair solicitors on here are unable to stfu about it 😀
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Shadow Minister Kate Hollern has quit Starmer’s front bench following testimony made to the employment tribunal into former Hartlepool MP Mike Hill’s behaviour towards a staff member. Earlier this afternoon Andrew Bridgen accused Hollern of warning him not to get involved in the harassment case after the parliamentary staffer informed him of allegations of sexual impropriety.
In her witness statement the victim said:
“Andrew Bridgen called me to tell me that Kate Hollern had approached him in parliament and pulled him to one side. Mr Bridgen told me Ms Hollern tried to warn him off from helping me by using scare tactics. Ms Hollern said that many in the Labour Party were of the opinion that Mr Bridgen and I were having an affair and she advised him to keep away from me as it would be a shame if it got out in the papers as he had a lovely wife and new baby – Mr Bridgen told her she was talking nonsense and to go away.”
During a virtual hearing today, Mr Bridgen said he was aware of the allegations and was told not to get involved. Hollern threatened him that the Labour Party would smear him as having an affair with the victim. At the time Hollern was Corbyn’s PPS…
The continual daily SLEAZE of Labour is never ending...
How a party bereft of morals can call themselves 'Protectors of Values'.. They have none.
And you Lefties on here dare to talk of Tory sleaze 🤪
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On 21/04/2021 at 07:46, horsefly said:Why am I not in the least surprised:
Boris Johnson 'sent texts to Sir James Dyson saying he would "fix" tax issue for billionaire inventor's staff if they came to the UK to make ventilators during Covid pandemic'
- Billionaire tycoon Sir James Dyson wrote an official letter to the Treasury
- Asked for tax status of staff to remain same if they moved to UK from Singapore
- But in a private text, Boris Johnson told Sir James that he 'will fix it' himself
- The Prime Minister then added 'Rishi [Sunak] says it is fixed!! We need you here'
- Two weeks later, Rishi Sunak told MPs that those coming into UK to offer help during the pandemic would not see a change in their tax status
- It is the latest in a string of lobbying questions facing the Conservative Party
Under the ministerial code - a list of rules laying out the conduct expected by ministers - 'a private secretary or official should be present for all discussions relating to government business'.
Should a conversation happen without an official, 'any significant content should be passed back to the department as soon as possible after the event'.
It also states that ministers should 'act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner' and 'must act and take decisions impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias'.
The BBC press office has apologised for smearing James Dyson as a Tory who sleazily lobbied for tax advantages -- Perhaps you and your Lefty cohorts here at the Pink'Un should also apologise:
We accept that Sir James Dyson is not a prominent Conservative supporter as was stated in some of our coverage of his text messages with the Prime Minister. The James Dyson Foundation made a charitable gift to support the Wiltshire Engineering Festival for school children. We accept that this does not signal affiliation to any political party and we would like to put the record straight. Sir James also raised concerns about the accuracy of other aspects of our reporting. We wish to make clear that Sir James contacted Number 10 in response to the Prime Minister’s direct request to him for assistance in relation to the urgent need for ventilators and incurred costs of £20 million which his company voluntarily absorbed in trying to assist in the national emergency. His text messages to the Prime Minister were also later sent to officials. We are sorry that these facts were not always reflected in our coverage, and we apologise for not doing so.
In response, Sir James Dyson said
“The BBC now acknowledges that it was wrong and has issued an apology – which I accept. To justify its claim that I am a “prominent Conservative supporter” the BBC shamefully twisted our charitable gift to school children to suit their political narrative. The Prime Minister asked Dyson to help at a time of crisis, in the national interest, and we did just that. We dropped everything and focused on the national effort. Far from any gain, the project cost us £20 million – a sum we voluntarily bore. I am proud of the efforts of every Dyson person who contributed and we would do precisely the same again. It was deeply disappointing, for me and for the hundreds of Dyson people who gave it their all, to have our efforts developing an emergency ventilator mischaracterised and used for political mudslinging.”
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Labour sleaze:
More Israeli war crimes
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What the hell is bigoted about disapproving of someone who I think is incompetent? Does that make you a bigot for disapproving of Farage, Boris etc? Your hate for the latter who have proven to be competent is a lot stronger than my disdain for Khan and to state he doesn't have a say in the running of my life as a Brit is a throwaway comment that tops your throwaway comment table with an automatic promotion place already sealed...
Khan's 'Greatest' hits London has suffered since his election in 2016:
. Robbery up 73%
. Street muggings up 56%
. Homicides up 34%
Read on, Herminge 👇
Not everything is up of course. Transport reliability is down, TFL’s budget has tanked after some very effective self-sabotage, while rates of house building and tree planting are shameful.
But the most damning statistic of all remains the number of murders in the capital: 149 last year, the highest figure since 2008, with knife crime at an historic high. It’s on this miserable record that Khan should be judged in the Mayoral election come May 7th.
Passing the bucks
As Mayor, Sadiq Khan is never more active than when blaming other people for his own failings: he stuffs cotton wool into his ears and points zealously at government cuts to policing in the hope we absolve him of any blame for the bloodshed that has plagued London under his watch.
Of course, the causes of crime are myriad and complex, and not all factors – such as say, family breakdown – are (or even should be) within Khan’s remit. But much as he might wish he weren’t, Khan is not just Mayor of London, he is the Police and Crime Commissioner for the city, the man tasked by law to come up with a plan. And the plan, if we can call it that, has not worked.
For all his complaints about funding, the Mayor controls an £18bn budget. He decides where it goes. And while we’re told there is not enough money for police officers, curiously there does seem to be enough money to increase the number of press officers plastering his name across the city.
Khan has presided over a flabby bureaucracy, bloated on self-satisfaction and more intent on banning Tube ads and pushing for a second Brexit referendum than dealing with the real problems Londoners face. He has not been asleep at the wheel so much as staring at himself in the rear-view mirror. All the while crime ramps up, victims multiply, and the fabric of a city frays.
There was a tacit recognition of this in 2018 when Khan belatedly adopted the public health approach to crime which had proved so successful in Glasgow and New York – and which so many had been calling for. Central to this plan was the establishment of a Violence Reduction Unit (which, for all the moaning about funding, the Government pumped £35m into). But unlike the leaders in Glasgow and New York, who gripped the issue like a vice, Khan has shown all the grip of an amoeba. The Violence Reduction Unit Partnership Reference Group has been going 18 months. It has met 8 times. All the while, the homicide rate has continued to rise.
The experience of other regions in the country that have struggled with cuts to policing underlines how poor Khan’s record is. While London’s homicide rate leapt 10% between 2018-19, the next biggest police force, West Midlands police, reported a near 20% fall in homicides over the same period, while the crime rate has fallen in Greater Manchester by 4.4% under the leadership of Andy Burnham. Other Mayors are getting a grip, but this is Sadiq Khan: the Mayor who can’t.
But it’s not just on public safety that Sadiq has used his Minus touch – on transport, tube reliability has fallen while TFL (which is run by the Mayor) has sunk to record levels of debt, with an operating deficit of almost £1bn a year. When Khan came to power Crossrail was on time and on budget. Under his leadership costs have spiralled and Crossrail been delayed, the Northern Line extension delayed, the Bakerloo line extension delayed, station upgrades from Holborn to Camden delayed, and London’s commuters – you guessed it – delayed, with disruptions due to faulty stock up 30%. That stock could have been invested in, but one of the reasons TFL doesn’t have any money is because the Mayor starved them of it, freezing fares on one-way tickets in a populist move that looks a lot better on a billboard than a balance sheet.
No wonder Khan didn’t so much as mention crime or transport when he launched his re-election campaign this week. It was odd, however, that he wanted us to focus on housing, given that his record on that front – 116,000 homes promised in 2016, less than 20,000 delivered nearly 4 years later – is also embarrassingly bad.
His new answer to the housing crisis though is a remarkably unifying one: Khan’s plan to introduce rent controls achieves the rare feat of uniting both the left and right in condemnation. This policy has failed in virtually every city it’s been tried, and risks freezing rents in a London where, if you’re a nurse or teacher, the average rent is 105% of your salary. As Assar Lindbeck, the economist who chaired the Nobel Prize committee for years reportedly put it, rent controls are ‘the best way to destroy a city, other than bombing’. So, something to look forward to then.
Bubble of Virtue
In short, this is a politician who has shown the kind of rank incompetence that would see him kicked out of a job in any other walk of life. That he has even a chance of running the UK’s largest city for another four years should be galling to Londoners. And yet judging from the early opinion polls, it’s not, with Khan sitting fairly comfortably ahead of his main rivals, Independent Rory Stewart and Conservative Shaun Bailey whose route to victory depends on one of them moving early into a decisive second place and hoovering up a majority of second preference votes. This lead could of course be a reflection of the fairly limp Conservative campaign, or Stewart’s lack of party machine, but there’s something else at play too.
Khan seems to exist in an impregnable bubble of virtue that no number of stabbings can burst. This is partly because he appeals to London’s sense of itself. The fact a diverse, left-leaning city elected a left-wing Muslim mayor, the son of a bus driver, who grandstands against Brexit (despite having no say over the matter) makes London feel superficially good about itself. For Khan, as his manifesto makes clear, it’s not about policy it’s about personality, it’s about leveraging his identity to signify a set of vague, almost unchallengeable values that are meant to be ‘London’s values’. Detail doesn’t matter to his strategy, what matters are things like he is ‘leading the fight against Brexit’. Who cares if that question has in fact been settled? In London it’s a socially virtuous (and ultimately vacuous) thing to say, which shows certain type of voter that he’s in the same bubble as they are – he gets you, and that matters.
And then there’s his trump card. Khan’s well-publicised spats with the US President are an underpriced source of political strength in this race. For many, Trump’s animosity signals Khan’s virtue, and implies a vote for Khan is a vote against Trump and what he represents.
Indeed the best thing that could happen to the Stewart of Bailey campaign would be for the US President to send some flak their way. Such are the times we live in.
Re-making the world
Despite this bubble of virtue, it’s clear what a second term of Sadiq would mean for Londoners: wasted money, wasted hours and wasted lives.
But it also means something less quantifiable and more insidious for London itself – wasted opportunity.
We are living through a period of profound change for global cities in the West, with devolution at home and collaboration abroad on a new metropolitan agenda still taking shape. From Seattle to Gdansk, Madrid to New York, cities are remodelling the relationship between citizen and state, and are strengthening ties between each other in an attempt to mitigate the effects of global withdrawal, driven by more protectionist national governments. The opportunity is there for London not just to shape the agenda but to lead, if only the Mayor could see it.
Sadly, in Sadiq Khan, we have a mayor who can’t.