Sadiq Khan has today linked protests outside asylum hotels with “hate crime and extremism.” To think Guido was worried Khan might not stick his foot in it this week…
In a press release this morning the London mayor announced “fresh investment to fight hate crime and extremism in London.” Khan is allocating £875,000 for various projects and learning initiatives on the topic. That includes funding for “Tech Against Terrorism” to “deliver schools-based workshops helping students to recognise harmful and radicalising content online.” In the press release Khanm adds:
“The action comes as anti-migrant hotel protests are becoming more common place in the capital and arrests for those aged 17 and under for terror related offences in the UK remained high, with 43 arrests in the last year.”
Khan goes on to attack X for failing “to act on 97 per cent of posts calling for violence against migrants or Muslims that are reported to the platform” and claims “the Mayor’s investment encourages Londoners to continue to celebrate our diversity and reject hateful and divisive narratives.” Susan Hall, leader of the City Hall Conservatives, said he should apologise:
“This tells you everything you need to know about the Labour Party’s attitude to illegal migration and stopping the small boats – it is disgraceful to conflate peaceful protest and freedom of speech with extremism. Clearly the Mayor should apologise.”
The campaign against migrant hotel protests in full swing…
New breakdown figures released by Khan’s Transport for London blow apart the spin it put out after Jenrick’s viral video this year. Who would’ve thought…
After the Jenrick video TfL mounted a defence: “In a statement, it said the fare evasion rate for 2024/25 was averaging 3.4%.“ Slyly that does not refer to the figures for the Underground…
A new report for an upcoming safety and security panel shows the actual breakdown of fare dodging on the Tube, which peaked at 5.1% in the first and last quarters of last year and was 4.8% across the 12 months. That’s above the 4.1% target and far above the figure TfL put out after Jenrick’s video…
Separately the rate of fare evasion on buses is rising dramatically from 1.9% in 2023 to 2.6% last year. Cutting the head of the hydra…
Sadiq Khan flew a whopping 12,021 miles on one trip last month for a vanity “historic Africa Trade Mission.” Will anyone think of the planet…
He declared at the time: “My visit marked a milestone: the first Mayor of London to lead a trade mission to Africa.” Guido will this afternoon mark a historic milestone by becoming the first man to run a marathon backwards with a milk bottle on his head…
Khan’s flights, obtained via Guido’s FoI Unit:
The distances there total 12,021 miles. Khan also took a whopping eleven officials with him including a photographer, senior video producer, head of news, head of media, public affairs adviser, and ‘two international relations’ officers. Guido doesn’t notice anyone who has anything to do with trade on the list…
Khan spent 17 hours and 35 minutes in business – 63.7% of his total flight time of 27 hours and 35 minutes. The average Brit spends 6.8 hours in the air in an entire year…
The Mayor’s office has confirmed: “No private sector contributions, sponsorships, or offsets were used to co-fund or subsidise the trip.” So all on the taxpayer then…
C40 cities, the organisation of which Khan is co-chairman, has advocated for the public to be restricted to one short-haul return flight every three years. The Mayor is in active opposition to a third runway at Heathrow and has opened the door to legal action over his concerns for the environment. Considering each passenger releases 115 kg CO₂ per flight hour Guido calculates Khan and his posse released an eye-watering c32 tonnes of CO₂ from their flights alone. Three times the amount an average Brit emits in a full year from all sources. Could have been a Zoom?
Sadiq Khan has launched an urgent survey asking for feedback on potential policies which could appear in London’s ‘Heat Risk Delivery Plan’. One option on offer to City Hall respondents is “flexible working hours to avoid peak heat times”, even though the building has air conditioning. It’s 27 degrees and cloudy, time to down tools…
A statement at the start of this vital survey says:
“London’s climate is changing, and our summers could get hotter and drier. We’ve already seen heatwaves this summer. And remember the summer of 2022, when temperatures exceeded 40C in London? City Hall is working with partners on a delivery plan to better prepare London for rising temperatures and extreme heat events.”
The full ‘Heat Risk Delivery Plan’ itself will arrive in the spring, ahead of any deadly sunshine Londoners have to suffer through next summer. They’re also laying the groundwork for “public awareness campaigns encouraging people to reduce high heat activities” like driving. No need to make that commute if your boss is letting you enjoy a Cornetto from your sofa…
Given Sadiq Khan is raising his share of Londoners’ council tax up to a yearly total of nearly £500, you’d think City Hall would tighten its own purse strings to demonstrate at least a modicum of fiscal responsibility. Not quite…
Not only have the salaries of all but one of Sadiq’s deputy mayors risen to over £150,000, a closer look at City Hall’s latest spending returns and the gifts register for Khan and his pals tells the fuller story. It is – as always – nice work if you can get it…
GLA Expenses 2024-25
In the first year of his current term, Khan’s City Hall spent:
● £4,640,910 on printing. Yes, £4.6 million…
● £804,071 on hotel accommodation
● £65,476 on international, European, and domestic flights
● £56,555 on photography
● £48,101 on postage
A total of £5,615,113…
Gifts and Hospitality
In the first year of his current term, Khan himself accepted:
● 2 tickets to Liverpool v Crystal Palace – £450
● 2 tickets to the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium – £700
● 2 tickets to the Carabao Cup Final at Wembley Stadium – £550
● 2 tickets to Brentford v Liverpool – value not reported
● 2 tickets to Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool – £1,050
● 1 ticket to Fulham v Aston Villa – £1,500
● 1 ticket to Liverpool v Bournemouth – £450
● 6 tickets to Taylor Swift Concert at Wembley Stadium – £3,000
A total of £7,700, excluding the value of the Brentford v Liverpool game…
Meanwhile his aides have gratefully accepted a cool £10,967 in freebies, including to Glastonbury, the Brits, the Champions League Final, and UFC fight night. The full details are listed below. Remember, these freebies are registered because staff are supposedly attending in a work capacity…
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Sadiq Khan has grown the number of diversity roles in the Mayor’s office by an infinite amount. From zero…
When Sadiq was first elected in 2016 there were no EDI officers within the “People Function.” Co-conspirators won’t be surprised by what happened next…
An FoI release from the GLA has confirmed that Khan ramped up spending on the team to short of half a million pounds of taxpayer cash. As of March this year this was the makeup:
Khan briefed he was “furious” about the lack of new taxpayer grants handed to him from Westminster at the Spending Review. His EDI team may have helped arrange travel for his deputy mayor to go to a vanity Pride march in Budapest on the taxpayer’s dime. Sack em…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”