Originally Posted by
WBA123
Here I am to provide a bit of balance to this site...;)
For those of you who don't know, I live in London and vote for Khan, and will do again at the next mayoral election.
I think he talks a lot of sense when I hear him talk. He's never defended jihadists, but that sounds like something the Daily Mail would write.
Talking of my good old favourite worthless reading material, the Daily Mail, its probably the main reason I vote for him is because they and other rags try and stick the knife in. When the cowboys in our RW media write sceptical derogatory things about people (the 'jihadist defender' thing is a great example), it makes me actually like that person a lot more.
Finally, Khan gets a lot of stick for knife crime in London. Mostly from Tories, who don't seem to realise that Tory budget cuts to the police have probably been the largest cause of this. Anyway, he removes the head of the Met police and asks for strategic change - and is again attacked by Tories. Seems bizarre to me.
Some terrible scandals have happened on Cressida Dicks watch as head of the Met police, at that level I don't buy the 'he/she is doing their best'. These people need to be competent. And unlike in politics, where you can be incompetent and lie your way to the top, you can't do that in many other jobs. So I say its more than time for her to move on, and for someone fresh to come in.