{"id":120009,"date":"2023-11-03T21:08:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=120009"},"modified":"2023-11-03T21:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:08:56","slug":"boris-blasts-sadiq-khan-as-abject-failure-saying-london-no-longer-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/politics\/boris-blasts-sadiq-khan-as-abject-failure-saying-london-no-longer-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris blasts Sadiq Khan as ‘abject failure’ saying London ‘no longer safe’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boris Johnson\u00a0has branded Sadiq Khan an “abject failure” in a brutal takedown of the safety of London’s streets.<\/p>\n

In a fiercely written column the former PM boasted the comparatively lower homicide rate in the capital when he was its mayor.<\/p>\n

Recently Mr Khan was slammed for staying silent on knife and gun crime in London, and instead “declaring a war on motorists”, as the number of teenagers murdered in the capital reached 14.<\/p>\n

This was as many as were murdered in the whole of 2022 in the capital. The number for 2023 has since increased to 18.<\/p>\n

In his column for MailOnline, Mr Johnson described a conversation he had with an unnamed “Brazilian tycoon” who said London was the “greatest city on earth” and loved Brexit – but was worried about the level of crime.<\/p>\n

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He added: “In fact, it was only a few weeks previously that I had been given the same sort of message by an audience in Nevada. I tried to fight back.<\/p>\n

“I told them that they were exaggerating, and that London remained, by international standards, a very safe city \u2014 but they began gurning and barracking me, and I felt I was losing them.<\/p>\n

“The customer is always right, and if we want the world’s biggest spenders to come and lighten their wallets in London, then we don\u2019t want thugs picking their pockets in Piccadilly.”<\/p>\n

However, he was clear that those who are most affected by crime rates in London are those with little money to fall back on.<\/p>\n

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Mr Johnson wrote: “It’s the people of the city, the people of this country who deserve so much better.<\/p>\n

“It’s everyone else who suffers \u2014 the people on lower incomes, because it is they who are disproportionately affected by crime, and the poorest worst of all.<\/p>\n

“The view of commonsense people across this country \u2014 and especially in the capital \u2014 is that the police are not on their side.”<\/p>\n

Taking aim at Mr Khan, the former PM described him as an “abject failure”.<\/p>\n

Stats reveal that last year, a mobile phone was stolen in the capital every six minutes.<\/p>\n

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