Why do right wingers have this weird hang up on Sadiq Khan, as though he's meant to singlehandedly stop crime? Crime exists in Birmingham, Manchester whatever but their mayors don't get nearly as much vitriol
by sabdotzed
Why do right wingers have this weird hang up on Sadiq Khan, as though he's meant to singlehandedly stop crime? Crime exists in Birmingham, Manchester whatever but their mayors don't get nearly as much vitriol
by sabdotzed
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The mayor is the elected official responsible for the police in London.
Fuck off Nigel
Well the Met Police do fall in part under his portfolio, and they’re useless in pursuing these property crimes.
The Met is part of the problem but the other part is there’s no where to put the criminals if they’re convicted because the prisons are overcrowded, so there’s a chain of bottlenecks that are blocking the effective policing of these crimes.
They’re petty property crimes compared with violent crimes (for which I think things have generally been improving over the last few years?) but these property crimes have an outsized impact on the sense of public safety and law and order, because they happen to anyone in public places, they’re routine and there’s no repercussions.
He’s been in power a long time and things have gotten progressively worse over time however because London is the capital with the highest population and most tourists the number is naturally higher, the problem is with the system and national, hardly any police available to tackle the growing crime rate and they’re unable to do much because every action they take is scrutinised by the public especially because a small number of corrupt and frankly vile officers have disgraced the police causing distrust and hatred.
Any opposition in government will be critisied, especially online where they can be targeted 24/7. Employ more officers, conduct better background checks, empower them and build them up, allow them to do their jobs and tackle any bad ones. Criminals no longer fear repercussion as they’re not harsh enough.
Fromage is a bellend
Right whingers just always need someone or something to moan about. This guy on YouTube keeps moaning that he’s being censored and that YouTube promotes left wing extremism despite the fact that his ridiculous content is still up there and YT keeps recommending me crap from GBeebies and TalkTV despite the fact that I don’t watch those channels, also YouTube allows right wing extremists to promote their bile but yeah keep telling me how YouTube is far left lol.
You have to remember, Sadiq has been unapologetically and visibly brown throughout his career and some people HATE that
Someone told me the other day that Sadie has more control over london’s economy than the prime minister
I had my phone snatched in London a few months ago and the police were useless. I was still tracking the live location of the phone and I asked if I could hop in their car to go find the thief. “Sorry, we can’t because of Health & Safety rules,” they said.
Then change those bullshit rules so you can hunt down and arrest the criminals more effectively. Or use the thousands of CCTV cameras you have to catch them. Or setup more stings in high crime areas to catch them in the act and arrest them immediately. Make the criminals fear the consequences again, instead of getting rich from petty crimes they’ll never be arrested for.
Get off your asses and fix the problem already. You should be ashamed that a city as rich as London is so inept at reducing crime.
I don’t live in Birmingham or Manchester, I live in London and I’m not a right winger, but this city has seen a decline on all fronts in the last 8 years, is it all the mayor’s fault? Of course not, there are many factors at play, but he has his responsibilities and way too many on this sub, every time anyone asks the mayor to do anything about an issue, start shouting that it’s either not up to him or that his hands are tied…if he can’t do anything about crime, housing, public transport, keeping the streets clean,…what exactly is he responsible for?
I’m surprised phone snatching is even a profitable crime these days. I spent the last 11 years in south east Asia and nobody is nicking phones out there.
Do we pretend politicians aren’t accountable for areas under their remit now. I don’t think it’s fair to say right wingers are obsessed with khan because of crime in London in the same way I don’t think it’s fair to say left wingers were obsessed with the Tories because of the crumbling NHS.
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What is the mayor supposed to do to prevent crime in his city? OP thinks the mayor’s job is to sit in office all day and do nothing?
What do you think the point of a Mayor if not to direct the government to perform it’s PRIMARY function which is to maintain law and order, and punish criminals? Do you genuinely think crime is just this thing that happens at random like bad weather? Do you think the political administration have any agency over crime whatsoever? I’m genuinely baffled at how someone could think like this.
Fuck it would be great if he went Batman.
Just get fucked cranked up to the gills on gear and start personally assaulting phone snatchers.
He’s the London Police & Crime Commissioner, so he could start with doing his job.
OP, what do you think Sadiq Khan’s job is?
I think it’s really interesting that farage brings up phone snatching. It is definitely a problem but not at all the worst issue we have in London or UK. For example there were twice as many domestic abuse cases in London last year and that’s a crime hugely under reported so it’s likely a lot more. There were 20k sexual assaults in London last year. Yes that’s lower than phones stolen but again that is a crime that’s usually under reported and frankly I’d prefer to have my phone nicked which I can get back on my insurance than be physically violated!
I’m not commenting on to what extent sadiq could do things differently to improve things. I just think it’s interesting that Nigel picks a crime done by professional gangs rather than more serious crimes that mainly impact women and are mainly perpetrated by otherwise non criminal men…
Is this satire 😭🤣 Surely the MAYOR OF LONDON can fix this. Surely it’s under his remit or are you going to tell me it’s solely up to the commissioner and PM?
So does he think that the Tory Reform candidates would have done better? Lol
The mayor of London is the PCC of the Met police, it kinda IS his responsibility in fairness
Problem with Nigel is he isn’t sincere – he doesn’t actually care about how many phones were stolen in London last year. Like, if someone from UKIP or Reform had become mayor of London and 52,202 smart phones were stolen in a year do you think he’d be telling us?
Sadiq Khan deserves scrutiny for everything that happens on his watch but so does every politician and person in public office, not just the people Farage hates.
I didn’t know it was a competition. And what’s Khan gonna do with all these phones now that he’s won?
so from a serving police officer….
change the rules of engagement so that if I knock a phone snatcher off their bike and they get injured, I’m not having to justify why I’ve just tackled someone off their bike and worrying about a misconduct hearing. They’re a phone snatcher. They decided to play that game, I’m here to make them lose. That’s all the reasoning we need, I’ll risk a broken arm (as has happened to a colleague) for that
Loosen the rules on pursuit.
Thats the only thing you can do within the confines of the MPS to change anything.
The CPS and the CJS as a whole however, I could write a whole manifesto.
This is stupid, he absolutely does deserve some of the blame.
Fuck Nigel Farage forever though.
There’s not enough police for a metropolitan area like London. And there will be even less now they announced a cut of 2000 police officers
Well done for making yourself look foolish. It is literally his responsibility and since you don’t know that, it would’ve taken you seconds to find out before embarrassing yourself. But then again if someone starts with “why do right wingers”, you can safely assume the rest of the post isn’t worth reading 😂
Here is the thing: Sadiq Khan has a big mouth, especially around election time,
The fact is that people don’t understand that Mayor in the UK is pretty much an honorific title.
It’s a legal way to scam people, getting paid real nice and do nothing. It’s not necessarily you don’t *want* to do anything, it’s just that you pretty much *can’t* do anything.
Khan would be faring a lot better if he learnt to keep quiet and to stop promising stuff.
If being mayor is that horrible, no one’s forcing him to run. I’ll take the job from him. I love my current job, but it doesn’t pay anywhere near as well and I have to do things during the day.
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