{"id":120203,"date":"2023-11-10T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=120203"},"modified":"2023-11-10T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:40:23","slug":"sadiq-khan-faces-chants-of-get-khan-out-at-chaotic-event-with-londoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/politics\/sadiq-khan-faces-chants-of-get-khan-out-at-chaotic-event-with-londoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan faces chants of ‘get Khan out’ at chaotic event with Londoners"},"content":{"rendered":"

People’s Question Time: Audience members shout out<\/h3>\n

Sadiq Khan faced chants of “get Khan out” as an event with Londoners descended into chaos last night.<\/p>\n

The London Mayor and London Assembly Members were grilled by members of the public about issues affecting the capital at People’s Question Time at City Hall on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

But the two-hour event deteriorated towards the end as some audience members began chanting “get Khan out”.<\/p>\n

London Assembly Member Krupesh Hirani was speaking when the group started shouting for Mr Khan to go.<\/p>\n

Chair Tony Devenish warned he would end the session early if they continued to chant.<\/p>\n

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He said: “Come on. This is your final warning or we’ll just clear the room. We’ve only got four minutes left so we can stop early. Quiet.”<\/p>\n

The chants started minutes after a furious audience member asked Mr Khan when he was going to “do us a favour and resign”.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards, there was further disruption when audience members heckled the London Mayor as he answered a question about thefts from shops.<\/p>\n

The Labour politician said some shoplifting was due to the cost of living crisis and gave an example of mothers not being able to afford nappies for their children.<\/p>\n

At that point, one audience member then shouted: “You should be in a nappy.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere during the session, Mr Khan defended his controversial expansion of London’s ultra low emission zone (ULEZ) following an angry question from a woman in the audience.<\/p>\n

She said: “I have a friend who is going to see his disabled sister every weekend out of London in his non-compliant car. It’s now costing him \u00a31,300 per year to go and see and help her.<\/p>\n

“It’s costing other people lots and lots of money as well. You say London is open, but your policies are closing it more and more every day.<\/p>\n

“I believe ULEZ is actually replenishing Transport for London’s budget. I don’t believe the lies, I don’t believe that it’s all about pollution.”<\/p>\n

Mr Khan replied: “So in relation to the support for those who’ve got non-compliant cars, we’ve made progress since the last People’s Question Time, which is now every single family in London is eligible for support through the scrappage scheme.<\/p>\n

“Every single business is now eligible for support. Every single charity is now eligible for support. Those who are disabled are eligible for a grace period.<\/p>\n

“Those are the big changes that we’ve made. We’ve put in more money for the scrappage scheme.”<\/p>\n