In a scathing piece for the Telegraph, Sherelle Jacobs eviscerates Sadiq Khan’s performance as London Mayor, likening his leadership style to that of a dictator and comparing his reign to that of Soviet leaders. Here’s an excerpt:
The mind boggles when it comes to Sadiq Khan. In many ways, he is a faceless phantom – a fascinatingly bland Labour apparatchik incapable of an original thought or phrase. And yet somehow he has managed to build himself into the consummate dictator-bureaucrat, London’s own answer to Leonid Brezhnev or Raul Castro.
For conservatives he is the ultimate source of irrit-ainment, a figure that is constantly triggering animated outrage over his provocative social media posts and controversial schemes. And yet he is a genuinely disturbing political figure, spinning his own universe of deception out of London’s dystopian hellscape.
The mayor’s triumph at forcing through his Ulez expansion project brings home all this chilling force. It is the most egregious kind of vanity project. As an exercise in green gesture politics that is set to hit low-income residents with steep charges, and penalise communities that are already beleaguered by poor public transport, it smacks of bourgeois dogmatism.
Ulez also offers a masterclass in post-truth politicking. The Tories allege in vain that Khan made ‘false’ and ‘dishonest’ claims to the London Assembly over the scheme’s consultation. It ought to be a full-blown scandal that Khan’s office funded scientists who published studies on Ulez’s effectiveness and then sought to “discredit” those whose findings contradicted grandiose claims about its impact. Nonetheless, by loudly and relentlessly blaring about a “public health emergency”, Khan has reduced the complex truth to just another version of reality.
His obsession with Ulez is truly baffling. It is hardly an election winner, with polls revealing that London is largely split over the policy. Given that most cars in the capital are already Ulez compliant, Khan has essentially launched a pious eco-war against some of London’s most deprived areas for little electoral gain.
Yet in one sense, for a politician like him, it fits perfectly. Having spent a good part of tenure dabbling in BLM iconoclasm, calling for the removal of statues of slavers from public squares, he has moved into the more spiritually ambitious business of constructing a cult of the self.
As his recent book Breathless attests, Khan wants nothing less than to position himself as Britain’s most environmentally enlightened leader – a born again green ‘activist’ who has made the journey from Land Rover driver to electric car evangelist.
Having decided to make the green revolution the centrepiece of his political brand, the mayor has had his work cut out to upstage his no less radical predecessors. After all, the red congestion charge paint splattered across London’s roads serves as a constant reminder of Comrade Livingstone’s reign of terror against motorists. And whatever name anyone else gives then, the capital’s rented wheels will always be known as Boris bikes.
Naturally, then, Khan has set a target for London to be Net Zero carbon by 2030. The extensive green Ulez signage will serve as a constant symbolic reminder of his guiding role in pointing everyone towards green utopia.
Worth reading in full.
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Have you heard the ‘conspiracy’ going around about Kamala Harris’ earrings that also double as wireless earbuds? I’m not fully sold on this but the guy in the below vid does show an awful lot of clips of her wearing the same earrings when she’s due to talk publicly, and these audio earrings are an existing product. It is odd, especially for a woman of her financial means, that she does seem to prefer wearing the same earrings time and again. I think I’m going to be paying closer attention to her ears from now on;
”DIDN’T KNOW WHETHER TO BELIEVE THE EARRINGS WERE ACTUALLY WIRELESS EARBUDS – OR – Is the denial of Kam.alah wearing wireless earbuds a conspiracy about the conspiracy?
Take a look and see what the manufacturer has on their website – VERY INTERESTING.
What do you think?”
https://x.com/BelannF/status/1834012198374391919
I don’t think there’s any conspiracy here though, just full-on corruption. I’d also bet the farm Harris’s team were given the questions she’d be asked beforehand to gain an advantage. The only way they can ever win is to play dirty;
”WTF? ABC Debate “moderator” Linsey Davis just HAPPENS to be a sorority sister of Kamala Harris at AKA
Why are we JUST NOW finding this out?
WHO ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN?”
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1834063366970630464
The earrings conspiracy is proven as far as I am concerned.
Well the reason I say I’m not fully convinced is because they are attached to the ear lobe as opposed to sitting inside the ear, like normal earbuds. So how can she hear anything from them over even the slightest background noise but also, how would those around her, including the sound technicians when she’s being filmed or whoever is interviewing her, not be able to hear any audio coming out of her earrings? It’s just like if you take your earphones off and the music’s still playing, those around you can hear it. So I wasn’t sure how she wouldn’t be rumbled straight away if they only sit on her earlobes.
“Green zealots will come to regret their war on motorists”
Whist I agree that the electric car (EV) hoo-haa is rapidly being shown up for the scam that it is, I do not think that Green Zealots will come to regret anything. Articles like this assume that the intention is for life to carry on much as it does at the moment, I increasingly am coming to the view that this is not the intention at all.
As it is, it seems to me that the EV business is at the forefront of showing that all this net-zero stuff is a war on the common man, a deliberate intention to dismantle and abolish much of what we know and have. I guess if the Telegraph published those sort of thoughts it would be deemed ridiculous and preposterous and so we have articles like this that seem to assume that if EVs are seen to be a flop then rational alternatives will follow! I am not convinced. As things stand I think that very little rational, logical or reasonable will follow. This present Government seems to have set out it’s stall quite clearly and will brow beat us all into misery, poverty and immiseration.
I don’t travel around that much but this Summer have made a few longer trips on UK motorways and through unfamiliar towns. My observation is that driving is getting much harder – long stretches of motorway at 50mph, minor road works in towns dotted around with mobile traffic lights, less parking as bays designated for electric cars are empty … I could go on. You’re right SD, I think they don’t want us travelling.
And whilst I’m on the subject on this subject, I’ll point out the disgraceful lack of public conveniences. On a recent trip to a touristy village in the north, the cafe we stopped at had no facilities (I thought this was a requirement?) and I was directed 200 yds down the road to a public convenience. Inside a sign informed me that it was run on a voluntary basis, council funding having ceased! The tourism industry supports the rural economy so I’m thinking they want us all in smart cities – ostensibly for the good of the planet?
Regarding the lack of public conveniences, I don’t know what you are worrying about. Just follow the example of our visiting physicists, doctors, engineers etc and relieve yourself on the pavement
Tbh, most public loos, if you can find one, are pretty nasty. I would rather go ‘al fresco’ behind a hedge.
Britain’s warfighting ability damaged by training Ukrainian soldiers, report finds
‘a quarter of the Army’s training estate was being used for a basic infantry training programme for Ukrainian recruits – known as Operation Interflex.
The parliamentary body said that, as a result of the operation, British Army units bidding for training areas were rejected eight times more often last year than in 2019.
They said in their report: “The MoD has acknowledged that Interflex will constrain the British Army’s capacity to train its own soldiers.”
Which complete feckwit wrote this, below?:
‘Its still too big, too expensive……the estate has only reduced by 9%…….That is why the 2015 strategic defence review committed to reduce (the Defence Estate) by 30% by 2040….’
Oh! Michael Fallon and Nicholas Houghton in December 2016…….
This kind of stupidity, central planning, thinking you can predict everything, no need for built in redundancy, is the reason why the NHS gets overloaded, the school system gets overloaded……(and you know British Rail will be overloaded because we’ve been on that train before)
Yet another reason why the country is being run by a bunch of total no hopers voted in by 12% of the country…….They couldn’t be any worse than the previous lot……….(and yet, somehow, they managed it.)
Oh for heavens sake!
Michael Fallon, Nicholas Houghton write out one hundred times:
‘PPE graduate filled, in fact any, governments are no good at running anything. never have been, never will be!’
With a Harris presidency America’s transition will be final, the beginning of the western communist era will have begun.
It will be one of the most dangerous times for the world since the long forgotten world war two
Adversaries tend to strike when the enemy is at its weakest and that time may be quickly approaching
Kamala Harris will be the final nail in America’s coffin, and if they vote her in, then they truly deserve it!
It is strange that those commies hate Russia so much. Maybe because Russia has rejected communism, after all, it is arguable that there is more free speech now in Russia than in America and Britain.
PS Don’t believe what you hear from the so-called free media in the West.
It is International Day of Solidarity with Journalists and this poster appears outside the American embassy in Moscow.
In case you can’t read it the poser says “Free speech is a threat to American democracy”.
The poster is of Gonzalo Lira, a US/Chilean journalist, novelist and film maker who died in a Ukrainian jail in January.
Except Kamala won’t be voted in, the election will be fixed just like it was in 2020.
‘Press freedom has seen a steady decline in the country ever since Vladimir Putin, who was first elected to the presidency in 2000, came into power. According to the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index — which is updated annually — Russia ranked 148th among 180 countries in 2014. By 2023, the country’s rank dropped to 164th.’
Kaela Malig
43 journalists and media workers have been killed in Russia since Putin came to power in late 1999, at least 25 of them in “direct retaliation” for their reporting. One prominent death was that of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote for Novaya Gazeta. Politkovskaya, who wrote investigative pieces exposing the Kremlin’s policies in Chechnya, was shot dead in her apartment building in October 2006. In Putin vs. the Press, Muratov says, “My personal pain, and my fault is we lost so many people, murdered, from the paper,” while recalling Politkovskaya and five other Novaya Gazeta journalists and contributors who were murdered between 2000 and 2009.
https://cpj.org/data/killed/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&type%5B%5D=Journalist&type%5B%5D=Media%20Worker&cc_fips%5B%5D=RS&start_year=2000&end_year=2023&group_by=year
“Elizabeth II statue ‘does not resemble her in any shape or form’
This is not our late Queen… It is Mrs Doubtfire with some corgis!
Today’s irony: A theft at a police conference. https://www.gbnews.com/politics/policing-minister-diana-johnson-theft-police-conference