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Khan is a Grade A Olympic Level Tosser - of, you know, the caber.

All the recent stabbings are down to the heat and/or school holidays and/or longer days.Apparently.Yeah, when one or two or three of the aforementioned happen we all vent our spleens by grabbing a knife and murdering someone.We have a narcisstic, self promoting, grossly incompetent Loser as Mayor and he proves this time and again.........All who voted for him ......... Outstanding!   😆

Rosco White ● 994d9 Comments

Not sure how any of the three tragic events have any bearing on the Mayor's competence. Two appear to have been domestic disputes and the other seems highly likely to have been an issue with the mental health of the perpetrator. The increase in crime carried out by people who have been prematurely discharged from treatment is an issue for central government and is outside the Mayor's control. The borough seems to have had a relatively low level of youth crime recently and there appears to have been a drop off across London which has to be a good thing. The Mayor has funded extra policing and a range of initiatives in this area, some of which seem to be paying off. Experience suggests crime will start to rise again but that will be because the economy is in such a state not because of a failure of the Mayor's strategy. Ultimately the funding of the Met is down to the government and a long period of underfunding has inevitably coincided with an increase in crime. The budget that the Mayor has for crime is relatively small but he does appear to have used it quite well. Thankfully, the issue seems to have finally been grasped with the Home Office committing to to increased police numbers again.  London doesn't have a murder rate that is unusually high by the standard of other European capitals and is quite low by international standards. The chance of an adult being attacked or killed by a stranger is vanishingly small — it is easy to convince yourself that it is a dangerous place by obsessively tracking crime stories on social media but the reality is that we are safer now than we have been at almost anytime in our history. Obviously there is no cause for complacency and London continues to have a youth knife crime problem. Stop & Search remains a key weapon and police forces use it but they do need to be monitored or it ends up being counterproductive, stiffer penalties for knife possession haven't really worked because gangs get children to carry their weapons and longer sentences are a blunt tool which is no longer practical to use given how crowded our jails are. The Mayor has no power to influence sentencing or tariffs for particular offences and very limited control of the day to day operation of the Met. Take all this together and it is slightly perplexing that certain people are so fixated about Sadiq Khan with regard to this particular issue.

Alison Howard ● 988d

It is not for me to suggest, however:-Stop & Search does have a positive effect.Mandatory jailing for carrying a knife without good reason, say, two months per inch or part inch of blade?It's all very well investing in Yoof Clubs etc and I have no problem with that, but we need immediate, effective solutions now.

Rosco White ● 989d

What suggestions would you give to a Mayor with regards to reducing knife crime

Gail Peters ● 989d

Jay Bower, that is a classic swerve, it is not a question of who we would like in the job, it is a question of how competent the current Mayor is at tackling knife crime.And he has proven he is utterly useless, he has done nothing constructive to stop knife crime and is grossly incompetent.Just like with Ealing Council, the "I ALWAYS Vote Labour" mindless Lemmings put him back in power without having a clue about the very serious issues that London faces.And just like LBE we have no idea if a Conservative or LibDem or Calathumpian Mayor would be any better, but Khan is ineffective and unfit to be Mayor.To me, it is VERY obvious that he is in the job for himself.

Rosco White ● 989d

It was "rosier", relatively speaking, before he was elected in 2016, in relation knife crime/stabbings. Mayor Sadiq Khan blaming all the recent stabbings are down to the heat and/or school holidays and/or longer days does not fill me with much confidence in him. Therefore, what Rosco White stated, when he started this thread is accurate.

Anthony Hawran ● 990d

Do you think all was rosy before he was elected?Who would you like in, presuming they have a clear strategy to tackle knife crime?Whinging doesn't help.

Jay Bower ● 990d

It is accurate. Mayor Sadiq Khan is a disingenuous virtue signalling moralist, who is not very competent. That seems to be a trait common especially in Labour Party politicians.

Anthony Hawran ● 990d

Asinine, or accurate?  😂

Rosco White ● 993d

Of all your asinine posts, this is the topper.

Mark Evans ● 994d