Keir Starmer handing Sadiq Khan a knighthood is cleverer and more cynical than you realise - Howard Cox
Chloe Dobbs says Sadiq Khan's knighthood is 'rewarding failure'.
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Along with tens of thousands of other Londoners, I feel sick, disgusted, and betrayed by our insensitive, way out-of-touch Prime Minister. Sir Keir Starmer has delivered a political bombshell by making London's most dishonest and opportunistic mayor we have ever seen a Knight of the Realm.
The stench of political expediency and cronyism wafts from 10 Downing Street to City Hall. Two Knights without a majority mandate work in tandem for Sadiq Khan to control Londoners and Starmer to control voters nationwide. It's a socialist global stitch-up, all because the Conservative Party has failed us all for over 14 years.
He may be his political soulmate, but deep down, Starmer cleverly wants Khan to have no chance of becoming the Labour Party’s next leader. So, this is a compensatory sweetener to keep him as far away from any national political power as possible. The ultimate target Khan has always craved.
So, how can this power-crazy, also just as incompetent Prime Minister, award the highest status of royal recognition for Khan’s long tenure of failure and dishonesty?
Just 18 per cent of Londoners voted for Khan, yet our political system and low election turnout gave him a third term to further wreck London’s prosperity and global standing.
Eight out of 10 voters have got what they deserve by not voting for decent, honest alternatives. Distrust of politicians, voter apathy and Khan’s control of the Muslim vote were his trump cards.
Even worse, giving Sadiq Khan such a prestigious award diminishes its credibility and demeans those who deserve or already have such royal recognition.
Now, Starmer has given Khan permission to display his Knighthood openly and arrogantly as a justification for inflicting even more misery on Londoners.
Sadiq Khan's knighthood is a 'compensatory sweetener', writes Howard Cox
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This is a man who has presided over religious communities becoming more divided, and who seems to put the Muslim community as being more important than the Christian and Jewish faiths.
For example, Khan has been noted for his active involvement in Muslim community events, particularly during Ramadan, but less so for his involvement with other faith events.
Susan Hall, a Conservative candidate for London mayor, claimed that Khan was "divisive" and had "frightened" some of Britain’s Jewish community, though this was largely seen as political rhetoric. Khan vehemently denies this accusation.
Under his tenure, he has encouraged Two-Tier Policing, and violent knife crime has rocketed. In 2023/24, the Metropolitan Police recorded 15,016 knife or sharp instrument offences in London, the highest number since 2019/20.
This is a 20 per cent increase from the previous 12 months. He has failed to keep Londoners safe.
He has also failed to balance the books with his ever-deepening incompetent £18billion black hole of debt mismanagement. He continues to back down on promises and blames others for issues he presides over.
For example, after saying in his election campaign that there would be no increase in TFL fares, he is now dealing a massive blow to commuters in the new year by raising the daily Tube cap by 70p.
The world’s most famous Capital City is now so unrecognisable that it has become a no-go zone for many proud Londoners alienated by Khan’s idealistic agenda. He has ripped English culture from the heart of the nation’s first city. Khan seems to hate Britishness and trumpets multiculturalism to further his supporter base and idealistic agenda.
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