London Mayor Sadiq Khan clearly didn’t get the memo from Keir Starmer about supporting and working with the next U.S. President. Instead, Khan rushed to issue a moaning statement on Trump’s win, bleating about how “fearful” Londoners supposedly feel about what the result means for democracy and women’s rights. Khan wailed:
“I know that many Londoners will be anxious about the outcome of the US Presidential election. Many will be fearful about what it will mean for democracy and for women’s rights, or how the result impacts the situation in the Middle East or the fate of Ukraine. Others will be worried about the future of NATO or tackling the climate crisis…The lesson of today is that progress is not inevitable. But asserting our progressive values is more important than ever – re-committing to building a world where racism and hatred is rejected, the fundamental rights of women and girls are upheld, and where we continue to tackle the crisis of climate change head on.”
Leader of City Hall Conservatives Neil Garratt was quick to slam Khan’s insulting statement:
“It’s important to recognise the legitimate winner of a free and fair election, and the peaceful handover of power. These are not things everyone in the world can take for granted, we should not attempt to undermine them.The fact remains that the Mayor’s job is to focus on delivering for London…Londoners will see through him trying to use the American election as a ruse to distract from his own failures in office, including his failure to negotiate a good deal for London with his own Labour government.”
Latest on Labour’s contribution to the “special relationship” as we get it…
Co-conspirators may remember Sadiq Khan’s vanity jolly last month to New York with the C40 Cities “Climate Leadership Group.” Khan claims he went to promote “London as a leading destination for business, tourism and sport.” He actually went on a boat ride to talk about voles…
Guido fired a few FOIs City Hall’s way to see how much the taxpayer was paying this time round. The GLA spent £3,683 on flights to New York for some of Khan’s retinue of a whopping eight people. Once they landed they managed to rack up a £9,060 bill on hotel rooms, which the GLA claims “is reflective of the very high demand for hotel rooms in New York when the UN General Assembly is in session.” You can feel the British public’s sympathy pouring out as we speak…
Khan and his crew were spread across three different hotels. Guido leaves it to co-conspirators to guess which the Mayor stayed in…
Above is the NH Collection on Madison Avenue. Prices range from $400 to $1,800 a night..
The Hilton Garden Inn by Central Park. Prices from $500 per night upwards…
The Aura Hotel on Times Square. From about $335 per night…
Khan’s hotel rooms, as well as his business class flight tickets, were paid for by the C40 Cities group, of which Khan is a co-chairman. That’s the same organisation of whose main proposal is to limit the public’s air travel to “one short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 2 years per person.” Khan’s already exceeded his two-year quota by 3.7 times with his free 5,570km flight to the Big Apple. Poor Sadiq will have to sit in London until 2032 to compensate…
The Sphere venue has found a new home since London Mayor Sadiq Khan unceremoniously blocked plans for it to be built in London. It will now be built in the United Arab Emirates, bringing $2.3 billion of foreign direct investment to the Middle East that could have gone to London. This comes just days after Labour’s so-called ‘Investment’ Summit. Did Khan not get the memo…
Climate crusader Khan rejected the glowing ball because it would cause too much “light pollution” and had a lack of other green credentials. Despite the fact the venue could have boosted the capital’s economy by £2.5 billion, brought in £50 million a year to local businesses and created 1,200 jobs. After Khan gave Sphere Entertainment the cold shoulder, the company said it would instead concentrate on the “many forward-thinking cities that are eager to bring this technology to their communities”. And they have…
TfL have seized more than 1,400 cars in the last 12 months from those who dare to defy Khan’s crippling £12.50-a-day ULEZ toll. Khan has been revving up the so-called success of the scheme, despite its first report admitting it’s impossible to gauge its true effectiveness—and even then, the numbers were nothing short of a car crash. Now the scheme is choking the poorest the hardest, with TfL exhaustively raking in over £25 million through relentless bailiff action…
Those unwilling—or unable—to pay the extortionate fines are being left in the dust, with their cars clamped, towed away, and sold off. In the last year alone, nearly 800 of those cars were sold, rolling in £710,000 cash for TfL. Still, unpaid ULEZ fines continue to fuel TfL debt. Neil Garratt, City Hall Conservatives Leader slammed the scheme:
“Last month I forced Khan to reveal that TfL now has £376 million in unpaid ULEZ fines – shockingly that’s 83% of TfL’s total bad debt. Today we find out that they’ve recouped just 6% of it. We constantly hear from Sadiq that TfL desperately needs more taxpayer money to make the numbers add up – perhaps if he wasn’t building up so much bad debt and building his budget on fantasy economics he wouldn’t be in this situation.”
Khan’s London continues to go up in smoke…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.
