Khan secured a historic third term even as his Tory opponent spread lies over ULEZ, the policies she derides as "woke", & other right wing talking points.
While #SadiqKhan won the #election for #LondonMayor, beating #Tory candidate #SusanHall, after a very fractious campaign, the quote of the day belongs to one of the minor candidates standing, #CountBinface (no relation to #LordBuckethead), who still beat the #BritainFirst's #NickScanlon and said,
"It looks like I have defeated Britain First in an election.
“Come on, you have to cheer about that…down with fascism, up with Ceefax, what can I say?”
Sadiq Khan, makes it three for Labour City Mayors as he bats aside the Tory challenge, delisted some 'excited- Conservatives claiming they might win....
Kommunalwahlen werden zum Stimmungstest für britische Regierung
In England und Wales wird heute auf kommunaler Ebene gewählt - doch es ist auch ein Stimmungstest für die britische Regierung. In London geht es um die Zukunft von Bürgermeister Khan - und dessen Verkehrspolitik. Von Sven Lohmann.
Pour conserver la mairie de Londres, Sadiq Khan affronte un manque d’enthousiasme
Jeudi 2 mai, 6,2 millions de Londoniens sont appelés aux urnes pour élire leur maire. Le travailliste #SadiqKhan, en poste depuis 2016, devrait être reconduit pour un troisième mandat. Mais il n’est pas très populaire et le changement de mode de scrutin pèse.
Keir is not popular in London, where he's an MP, so they picked somebody else to ride with Khan today.
At least somebody in there has their head screwed on
Short reflections from Nick Tyrone on why it's a huge mistake for the Tories to sneer at London as if anyone beyond the M25 hates it. I live about 60 miles from Hyde Park Corner. I lived in London when I left university. My sons live there. I go regularly to see friends, go to the theatre and galleries, and I love its multicultural richness. Sneering at London is not the vote winner they seem to think. #London#SadiqKhan#GTTO#SusanHall#Tories https://nicktyrone.substack.com/p/this-week-in-brexitland-march-28
“Rail fares to rise by 4.9% in England and Wales on Sunday. In London, Tube and bus fares are being frozen and prices reduced during rush hour and on Fridays.” Bloody Islamist controlled mayor keeping the fares down. Why can’t we all have one? #rail#SadiqKhan
By 'public' he means 'other old white Brits like me' because the slab of roast beef that is his mind cannot conceptualise of anybody different from himself.
Will the poshos at Reform tolerate such a LOUD thug in their ranks?
Lee Anderson is out of a job soon anyway as a Tory, so going over the Far-Far Right party will be next move unless he's considering retirement.
That bloated carcass of spite can't last much longer surely.
Khan has to put up with a lot of fash shit and had we still ranked choice voting London I'd give him my 2nd vote but as democracy was taken off us he gets nothing this time round. Blame Starmer for that one Sadiq.
John Pullinger (of Electoral Commission) has told FT that he thinks that the #Tories have 'opened themselves' up to the charge that a new voter identification scheme is designed to benefit the Tory party, having examined the results of the 'pilot' use in local elections.
#RishiSunak has resisted a widening of the forms of identification that can be used (proposed by David Willets), and so the 'very, very strict' rules are likely to disenfranchise many potentially Labour #voters.
That fits. It could be worth thirty seats to them in a general election. It also - together with the ending of the supplementary vote for mayoral elections - gives the #Conservatives a sporting chance of defeating #SadiqKhan in #london in May this year.
♲ @mlansbury@despora.de:> ## London mayor refused Klitschko's request to send scrap cars to Ukraine
London Mayor Sadiq Khan rejected a proposal to send cars handed over to the city authorities to Ukraine, since the plan would not benefit Londoners from an "economic, social, and environmental perspective."
According to the Telegraph, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko sent a letter in September, requesting Khan send cars that do not meet the British capital's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) standards to Ukraine, instead of being scrapped.
Klitschko was interested in the cars set to be scrapped because they were typically heavy vehicles like 4x4s and pick-up trucks, which are in great need on the front line.
In Ukraine, the cars could be used in a "variety of life-saving and transport roles," Klitschko wrote to Khan in September.
Mayor #SadiqKhan who also chairs #C40Cities is being threatened, and his family and staff doxxed, as he works to implement the #London#ULEZ Ultra Low Emission Zone
"As combating #climatechange moves from setting targets to implementing them, policymaking is entering an era of messy — and contentious — interventions. To meet emissions goals, governments will have to ... convince voters the cost of making those changes is worth it."
Today's "Just When You Think They Can't Go Any Lower" award goes to Richard Holden (me neither, apparently he's a transport minister) for suggesting that Sadiq Khan's "obsession with ULEZ" led to the stabbing of a 15 year old girl in London because he's not focusing enough on crime. #UKPolitics#SadiqKhan#KnifeCrime