Labours Khan Becomes First Muslim Mayor of London After Bitter Campaign

[appalachiablue]

Source: MSN/Reuters

LONDON, May 6 (Reuters) - Sadiq Khan, the son of a bus driver, became London's first Muslim mayor on Friday, seeing off a Conservative challenger who attempted to link him to extremism and securing a much-needed victory for his opposition Labour Party.

As New York mayor Bill de Blasio sent his congratulations, Khan had yet to receive official notification of his victory, which would go some way to soothing the wounds of Labour which suffered losses in Thursday's other local elections.

Dealt a crushing blow in Scotland, where it came third behind the Scottish National Party and Britain's ruling Conservatives, Labour did better than expected in England, saving its left-leaning leader from an early challenge.

But the big prize was the London mayor vote, which pitted Khan, 45, who grew up in public housing in inner city London, against Conservative Zac Goldsmith, 41, the son of a billionaire financier.

A source close to the count said Khan could not now be beaten in the race. De Blasio said on Twitter: "Sending congratulations to London's new mayor and fellow affordable housing advocate, @SadiqKhan."

Khan's margin of victory looked set to be narrower than expected in a possible sign that a bitter campaign marred by charges of anti-Semitism and extremism and charges of anti-Semitism in Labour ranks might have taken its toll.

The Labour lawmaker replaces Conservative Boris Johnson, who has run the city of 8.6 million people for eight years. A top campaigner for Britain to leave the EU, Johnson is seen as a contender to succeed David Cameron as party leader and prime minister.

The Conservatives were keen to keep hold of the post, which does not run the City of London financial district but has influence over government in lobbying for the capital. The mayor is responsible for areas such as policing, transport, housing and the environment.

ACCUSATIONS

Khan held his lead in the opinion polls, despite accusations by Goldsmith that he has shared platforms with radical Muslim speakers and given "oxygen" to extremists. Con't.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/labours-khan-becomes-first-muslim-mayor-of-london-after-bitter-campaign/ar-BBsIQNy?li=BBnbcA1

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[KamaAina]

1. Muslim mayor? So the whole of London is now a no-go zone?

[iandhr]

2. Khan seems like a better guy then Corbyn....

... from what I have read about him.

Though I am proud to call myself progressive I can't root for Labour as long as Corbyn leads the party.


He invited to Parliament Raed Salah who is a Palestinian islamist, who suggested Jews were absent from the World Trade Center on 9/11. Corbyn called him an “honored citizen.”

He also said Hamas and Hezbollah agents of “long-term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region,”

Hamas in it's charter calls for the killing of all Jews.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/opinion/an-anti-semitism-of-the-left.html?_r=1


As long as this anti-semite leads Labour I want them to lose.

Ant-semtisim is one of the causes that unites the far-right and the far-left

[ericson00]

8. well said. I will donate money, if I can, to anyone who will oppose the Corbyn/Kahn agenda

[iandhr]

10. I would be surprised if you could.

I am sure you have to be a UK citizen to do that. Just like you have to be either a US citizen or a permeant resident to donate here.

If that is not the case if would be very surprised.

[PaulaFarrell]

18. So which specific parts of the agenda are you opposed to?

◾Supporting a publicly run and financed NHS, rejecting privatisation, competition and a market in our health service.
◾Investing in a mass national house building programme to address the housing crisis.
◾Supporting the nationalisation of the railways and retention of Cal Mac in the public sector.
◾Opposition to war and conflict and a commitment to the UK playing a role as an advocate for peace and justice throughout the world.
◾Rejecting spending on the renewal of Trident at the same time as austerity bites hard in our communities.
◾An end to university tuition fees.
◾A fair taxation system.
◾Support for trade unions and protection of workers.
◾Opposition to tax credit cuts and the benefit cap.
◾And a constitutional convention to address issues of devolution across the UK.


For myself, I'm not keen on a housebuilding program, but all the other bits I can definetely get behind

[T_i_B]

22. London desperatly needs more affordable housing

London is a very expensive place to live thanks to sky high property prices, which means that many of the workers the city relies on are being priced out of our capital.

Sadiq Khan campaigned very hard on this issue and it's been a major factor in his victory.

[PaulaFarrell]

24. London would be more affordable without foreign companies buying up all the housing for investment

I would like to see better solutions than just paving over more green space.

[T_i_B]

26. That's certainly an issue in the posher parts like Mayfair

But the problem was there even before the overseas investors came to town.

[Bad Dog]

21. You might be taken more seriously if you could spell Khan's name properly.

Corbyn was also criticised for talking to Jerry Adams. If you want peace in the ME, like we have in NI, you need to talk to Hamas and Hezbollah.

Personally I'm far more upset by the 300 plus Palestinian children killed by the IDF during operation Cast Lead than by Hamas' rhetorical position. Hamas' charter that calls for the end of the state of Israel, not the killing of all Jews, is no different from Sinn Fein's position on a United Ireland.

It's a convenient excuse for Israel to not negotiate while building illegal settlements and creating facts on the ground. While people are spitting feathers about who Corbyn met up with they're ignoring the horror of the occupation.

Israel funded Hamas to divide and rule the Palestinians, and now it's come to bite them on the arse. If they don't negotiate with Hamas things will just get worse and they'll end up trying to deal with Islamic Jihad or IS.

Peace talks, with no preconditions, are long overdue.

[Bad Dog]

27. That's right blame the victim.

Those children died because the IDF killed them.

The problem is Israel uses the term anti Semite any time anyone criticises Israel that it's now lost all meaning. It's the hypocrisy that gets me. Corbyn is being criticised for who he's met. You won't get peace by only talking to your friends, as was proven in Northern Ireland.

What about the sort of people Likud meets. How about Heinz-Christian Strache? Most people would consider him anti Semitic.

The leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) has come under criticism from the Jewish community and politicians after posting on Facebook an apparent anti-Semitic caricature.


The cartoon, posted on Saturday by Heinz-Christian Strache and since slightly amended, showed an overweight man with a crooked nose and cufflinks with the Star of David in front of plates of food, while an emaciated man looked on.


The fat man represented the banking system and his thin companion the people, according to the legend.


But the resemblance to old anti-Semitic cartoons drew severe condemnation Monday.


"It's not a coincidence that a caricature of Jews, like the ones in (Nazi newspaper) 'Stuermer' in the 1930s and 1940s appeared on the Facebook page of FPOe leader Strache," the president of the Jewish community Oskar Deutsch said.


The Greens called it "pure provocation" and Socialist deputy Petra Bayr said she was "deeply shocked" by these "new anti-Semitic and Islamophobic verbal slips" from Strache.

Over the weekend, the FPOe leader had also posted another picture on Facebook, taken at a local fest and showing him next to a roast suckling pig with the rhymes: "Isst du Schwein, darfst du rein" (If you eat pork, you can come in).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/9488614/Far-Right-Austrian-leader-criticised-for-anti-Semitic-Facebook-picture.html

If Corbyn had done anything as disgusting as that he would have been kicked out of the Labour party, yet just for criticising Israel he's labelled anti Semitic. Heinz-Christian Strache gets a personal invite from Netanyahu. Fair play to Israelis like Shimon Peres and Reuven Rivlin who had the integrity to stand up for what's right.

In a speech he delivered at the closing ceremonies of Holocaust Remembrance Day at Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, Rivlin said “Sometimes I am shocked by what looks like the erosion of our national respect, by the peculiar linking up with the voices of falsehood among the extreme right in parts of Europe,” he said.

Rivlin left no room for doubt about what he meant. “A number of weeks ago, Christian Strache, an Austrian party leader, which shamelessly calls itself the Freedom Party, visited Israel,” he said. “He did not come here for a courtesy visit or tourism but rather by official invitation of leaders in the Israeli political world, and regretfully he is not the only one.”

Rivlin added: “Different people are trying to create an alliance and ties with parties and groups of xenophobes and anti-Semites who apparently support the State of Israel. It is upon us, the generation that is close to the Holocaust, to be clear. No interest in the world will justify the disgraceful alliance with groups and people who will not recognize their responsibility for the crimes of the Holocaust, whose work is dedicated to its silencing, and whose vision seeks to commit them again against every foreigner, refugee or migrant that dares ‘to defile,’ in their opinion, their living space.

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.718209

Like former South African president John Vorster Heinz-Christian Strache found that being a Nazi and a an anti Semite is no barrier to being shown a bloody good time in Israel. Human rights activists, not so much.

[Bad Dog]

29. Israel should stop the occupation.

The rockets from Gaza were in response to attacks by the IDF. In fact every single ceasefire violation was started by the IDF.

Human rights should apply to all people not just those you think deserve it.

You know nothing of Northern Ireland. The peace process started because individuals like Corbyn and Livingstone were brave enough to talk to Gerry Adams in the first place. Hamas have announced there willingness to call a long term ceasefire more than once.

Funny how you're more than willing to attack Corbyn but have remained silent about Heinz-Christian Strache and John Vorster until their existence has been pointed out. Your silence and your attacks on Corbyn speak volumes about the sort of person you are.

[Bad Dog]

31. Last conflict Israel knowingly attacked a UN school.

GAZA CITY — United Nations officials accused Israel of violating international law after artillery shells slammed into a school overflowing with evacuees Wednesday, an attack that Palestinian and U.N. officials said killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens as they slept.

It was one of the worst mass-casualty incidents of the three-week war. The building was the sixth U.N. school in the Gaza Strip to be rocked by explosions during the conflict.

Israeli officials said they were trying to determine who was responsible for the bloodshed. In past incidents, the Israeli military blamed errant rocket or mortar fire by Gaza militants for explosions at U.N. schools — or said the blasts were under investigation.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which operated the school-turned-shelter in the Jabalya refugee camp, said it had gathered evidence, analyzed bomb fragments and examined craters after the attack. Its initial assessment was that three Israeli artillery shells hit the school where 3,300 people had sought refuge.

“I condemn in the strongest possible terms this serious violation of international law by Israeli forces,” said Pierre Krähenbühl, the UNRWA commissioner-general. “This is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-presses-attack-16-killed-at-un-school/2014/07/30/4a643588-17a5-11e4-85b6-c1451e622637_story.html

I don't know where you get your news from, but it's clearly not a reliable one.

Your words give you away, you claim not to support Netanyahu yet you call him by his first name. I still hate Thatcher, and the only people I've ever known call her Maggie are those who support her. Looks like your subconscious is a lot more honest than you.

Here's some more honesty. This is Hebron where there's no Hamas or rockets, and look how the Palestinians have benefitted.

As we drove, we passed checkpoints, but we were never stopped. As we reached the centre it dawned on me that something was amiss. It was like a ghost town and where were all the people? Right in the middle of Hebron there is an illegal Israeli settlement of approximately 35 families. To protect the families, the Israeli Defence Force have effectively made the surrounding area a no-go zone for the native Palestinians. (I later found out that our minibus had Israeli plates, that's why we weren't stopped at the checkpoints.)

The area the settlers had chosen was right in the middle of the old town, next to the main market street. Formerly, this was the bustling heart, now all of the shops are boarded up and the market long gone. But there are still Palestinians living above the shops. Overnight, their front doors were welded shut so they could not gain access the street. I know this to be true as our guide was the Sergeant who supervised the work. To get out, the residents have to climb up on to their roof, clamber onto a neighbours' roof and exit onto another street. Imagine doing this is you are elderly, are carrying food or have a baby in a buggy! All this to protect the settlers who illegally decided to occupy their town.

As we walked we were watched by heavily armed soldiers. There was a constant stream of soldiers, out of uniform, jogging up and down the street and, at one point, a pick-up truck packed with youths sped and hurled insults at us. It felt like a very tense environment and made me feel extremely vulnerable - I certainly wouldn't want to be there on my own.

We quickly reached the next checkpoint on foot and decided to go through. It was down a narrow, dark back street. As we emerged out into the other side it was surreal - a bustling city street with cafés, shops and people - lots of people and such a stark contrast. We had now crossed back into the real Palestine. This is what life is like, two parallel worlds, uncomfortably living side-by-side. Reluctantly, we crossed back and got into our minibus. As we drove we saw a young boy, probably about 11-years-old, being marched to the barracks surrounded by five soldiers.

What we witnessed was apparently a common occurrence and in my opinion, is a systematic attempt to cowl the next generation of Palestinians.

As of July 2015, 5,369 Palestinians are in detention, 153 of those are children, and one is a girl. The main reason children are detained is because they have thrown stones at Israeli vehicles. The penalty for this is up to 20 years. Usually, the sentences are one to two months. Because of the occupation, the children are tried in a military court which has a 99.7% conviction rate. To be fair, this ridiculously high rate is largely because the child would be subject to a longer detention if they appealed. However, by pleading guilty they get a criminal record which will likely prevent them getting travel permits in the future. Settler children would always be tried in a civilian court, with a 6.4% conviction rate. This is clear discrimination, and clear example of the two-tier system being operated.

Most children are not actually charged. They are usually detained, roughed up, humiliated and then sent home. Children under 16 years can be detained for two to four days without charge. The soldiers have no obligation to inform them of their rights. They'll see their lawyer for the first time once they are in court, not during detention/interrogation, and remember, most children don't get charged.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sarah-champion/palestine-israel-peace_b_8280898.html

[Bad Dog]

33. Only the occupier can stop the occupation.

Treat people like animals and don't be surprised if they act accordingly. You claim to get your news from various sources but you're an American. You need to justify the billions of dollars you give to Israel. Americans were the only people who believed Saddam Hussein had WMDs.

And you were very quick to condemn Sadiq Khan and Jeremy Corbyn. Both are very decent people, Corbyn is a pacifist and Khan a human rights lawyer. You seemed completely unaware of far right leaders being welcomed in Israel.

The body count says it all, and a disproportionate amount of Palestinian children get killed by the IDF. Here's some pictures of the graffiti they left in Palestinian homes after operation Cast Lead.







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[Bad Dog]

35. You've got sources to support your allegations

that Jews outside the capital voted Tory, and that Corbyn was the reason.

Gaza is concentration city btw, there isn't anywhere to launch rockets that isn't heavily populated.


What's your beef against Corbyn other than the fact he's met some people? (Don't call him Jeremy, you don't know him.)

You don't sound like somebody whose opposed settlements, quite the opposite in fact.

This Channel 4 Drama was a first in that both Israeli and Palestinian actors were involved. If you watch it you might learn something, (I'm not holding my breath.)

[Bad Dog]

37. Who the hell is Troy?

You don't seem to know anything about our electoral system. Corbyn is an MP, only his constituents can vote for him. We do not have direct votes for the executive over here.

As for other elections outside London they were council elections and I suspect Jews, like everyone else, voted on local issues for the councillor most likely to represent their interests. I know the Muslim couple down the road from me voted Labour because the councillor in question is dealing with an aggressive dog that lives between us and has blighted both our lives.

Well "I oppose settlements. I only seem like I support them because I refuse to sympathize with any people who chose a terrorist organization to lead them."

What about the poor sods who vote for Fatah, more importantly how can you not consider some of the settler parties or even Likud for that matter terrorist?

Nelson Mandela was considered a terrorist for opposing the apartheid regime in South Africa. The situation in Israel is no different. If Corbyn gets elected for once we won't have a prime minister complicit in Israeli war crimes.

I boycotted South African produce during apartheid and I do the same with Israeli stuff too, and the message is getting home. Israeli avocados and peppers were a regular feature in supermarkets, now you hardly see them. There's no point stocking stuff that just rots on the shelves.

And G4S have pulled out of Israel.

[Bad Dog]

39. Hamas stance is no different from Sinn Fein's reference to the six counties.

It's a rhetorical stance and should be treated as such. That could have been a deal breaker if we'd allowed it to. You start off with a cease fire, and Hamas have spoken of calling one for twenty years, and then once you have peace, people get used to it. They don't want to go back.

At the moment you're giving them a siege mentality, it's all about holding on and not breaking down. It only stiffens resolve. Remember Israel funded Hamas to undermine Fatah and split the Palestinians. They wouldn't deal with Fatah and now they've got Hamas. Hamas can at least be negotiated with, unlike other groups like Islamic Jihad and other Islamist groups, because that's who's coming next.

Maybe that's what Netanyahu wants, resurgent jihadis across the ME so he can keep on creating facts on the ground.

[Bad Dog]

41. Sinn Fein does abide by the terms of the Good Friday agreement.

Only after peace talks. Israel won't even enter into peace talks. You're comparing two different things, what's ridiculous is you think you've made a valid point.

The tunnels are primarily to smuggle food and medicine in to stop people dying from preventable diseases.

This is what Israel is doing.

A group of extremist Israeli settlers on Saturday attacked two Palestinian human rights activists in the Tel Rumeida area in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, video footage showed.

Human Rights Defenders spokesperson Badee Dweik told Ma’an that settlers attacked Emad Abu Shamsiya and Yasser Abu Markhiya, who work with the group’s Hebron office. The two were taking footage of extremist settlers carrying rods near Palestinian homes in Tel Rumeida in Hebron’s Old City.

Abu Shamsiya, who serves as coordinator of the group in Hebron, said the settlers “were preparing to attack and intimidate Palestinian residents, especially children,” and that he rushed toward the scene with Abu Markhiya after they heard children screaming.
Their video shows a group of three settlers, two boys and one adult, begin to pass by. The adult settler can be heard saying in Hebrew, “if you take footage of me I’m going to kill you.” The children approach Abu Shamsiya and Abu Markhiya and order them to put down the camera before the adult strikes Abu Shamsiya.

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/extremist-settlers-attack-palestinian-human-rights-activists-hebron/

A lawyer for the Palestinian Authority’s committee for prisoners’s affairs said Monday that Israel’s Ofer military court has sentenced a young Palestinian woman from the southern occupied West Bank district Bethlehem to 45 days in prison over charges of incitement on her Facebook account.

Jamil Saadah told Ma’an that Majd Yusif Atwan, 22, was detained on April 19 for alleged “incitement,” and was also ordered to pay a fine of 3,000 shekels ($794) on Monday.

In recent months, Israel has detained scores of Palestinians for social media activity, alleging that a wave of unrest that swept the occupied Palestinian territory last October was encouraged largely by “incitement.”

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-woman-sentenced-by-israel-over-facebook-incitement/

Israeli forces stormed the central West Bank town of Birzeit north of Ramallah overnight on Sunday, targeting two female students and detaining at least 24 other Palestinians during raids across the occupied Palestinian territory.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained a female engineering student, Alaa Assaf, from Birzeit University. Israeli forces stormed the Assaf family home, before taking Alaa to an unknown location.

Meanwhile, Israeli authorities delivered a military order to another female student from Birzeit University, Asmaa Qadah, and banned her from entering the city of Ramallah and the town of Birzeit for five months. Israeli forces had only recently released Qadah after she served several months in custody

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-target-2-female-students-detain-24-other-palestinians-in-west-bank-raids/

Three Palestinian children burned to death after their house caught fire in Alshatee refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip. The fire resulted from lighting candles due to the continuing 10-year electricity outage crisis sweeping the Gaza Strip.

The three children, Yousri, 3, Rahaf, 2, Nasser, 2-month old all perished in the blaze. Three other siblings also suffered from burns, two of whom are in a critical condition.

Raed Aldahshan, the Director of the Civil Defense Service in the Gaza Strip said: “The fire resulted from using candles and a gas leak.”

Local sources from Alshatee refugee camp told the Palestine Chronicle that the fire erupted in parts of a rented apartment belonging to the Abu Hindi family. Locals and civil defense services who rushed to the site during the night arrived to find that the three kids burned to death.

Situations of houses catching alight are not uncommon in Gaza. The Gaza Strip has been suffering from electricity outages for the last ten years after Israel targeted the only power plant in the costal enclave in 2006 and 2014.

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/three-children-burned-death-gaza-house-catches-alight/

A couple of glorified fireworks landing in a field is what you're whinging about when there's a humanitarian disaster going on.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. It's actually official now

Your story from a few hours ago was still unofficial, like http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141440227

but we now have stories saying the official announcement and tallies are out:

London has elected its first Muslim mayor, with Sadiq Khan delivering a resounding victory for Labour, ending eight years of Conservative rule at City Hall.

When the official announcement was given early on Saturday morning, after a delay because of "a small discrepancy" in the counting, Mr Khan lead his Conservative rival by a total of 315,529 votes, when the second preference votes were finally counted.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sadiq-khan-wins-london-mayor-election-result-2016-zac-goldsmith-a7017106.html

BREAKING Sadiq Khan elected as new London mayor
Posted at
00:22

Labour's Sadiq Khan has been elected as the new Mayor of London with 1,310,143 votes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-36050790

[appalachiablue]

6. The Reuters article I posted says 'Has Become', not 'Looks Set to Become', (BBC)

not uncertain or the same. The count info. in your UK links is helpful. Did you intend to post one of these articles in LBN?

Earlier: BBC Sadiq Khan >looks set to become the new Mayor of London - boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland's elections.

Mr Khan, who >would be the city's first Muslim mayor, is on course for victory over Conservative Zac Goldsmith.

The result would bolster leader Jeremy Corbyn after Labour were beaten into third in Scotland by the Tories and lost English councillors.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Reuters also said "Khan had yet to receive official notification of his victory"

and "A source close to the count said Khan could not now be beaten...
Khan's margin of victory looked set to be narrower "

I thought you might update the OP to have an article said he has officially won, rather than one with everyone just expecting him to win, 4 hours ago.

The official announcement came about an hour ago now:

1h ago
00:25
And here are the final votes, once second preferences from the minor candidates were taken into account.

Sadiq Khan - 1,310,143

Zac Goldsmith - 994,614

1h ago
00:23
Here are the votes for Goldsmith and Khan in the first round.

Zac Goldsmith - 909,755

Sadiq Khan - 1,148,716

1h ago
00:19
London mayoral results announcement

It’s finally happening.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/may/06/uk-elections-sadiq-khan-ahead-in-london-mayoral-race-live-updates?page=with:block-572d2797e4b07f53f216ab76#block-572d2797e4b07f53f216ab76

[appalachiablue]

11. Says, 'yet to receive notification', in relation to when De Blasio sent his tweet...

The count results info. is here now and adequate, there's no way to 'update' my article.
And I'm not posting a new LBN OP from one of these articles. YOU can, as I said and since you've had all this info. what's the hold up? If you make an LBN post I'll delete.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. It doesn't matter that much; I've put the news that's it's official in your thread

I just thought you might want to update your OP with the development since the earlier LBN thread (there's no need for a 3rd thread on it). You can update your OP any time you want.

[beastie boy]

4. Oh no, not the "commie muslim alien witch doctor" again!

Although I must say, it ought to sound even more ridiculous and funny with a British accent.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Duplicate of pre-existing Late Breaking News thread below on front page.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141440227

[appalachiablue]

7. Reuters Article Says 'Becomes'..

DU, BBC: Sadiq Khan >looks set to become the new Mayor of London - boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland's elections.

Mr Khan, who >would be the city's first Muslim mayor, is on course for victory over Conservative Zac Goldsmith.

The result would bolster leader Jeremy Corbyn after Labour were beaten into third in Scotland by the Tories and lost English councillors.

[philosslayer]

13. Fantastic news!!

It's good to see Muslims are starting to be appropriately represented in British politics. Thanks for posting.

[Liberalagogo]

14. So, is this going to happen:

[OldRedneck]

15. I'll hold my comments . . .

There is S-O-O-O-O much one could respond with to this proclamation, I'd best hold my comments -- mainly because anything I say would be sexist and obscene.

" . . . with a sausage up my . . . " GODDAM I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT!!!

My daughter is in London for the next week or so . . . maybe she can get video!!!

[T_i_B]

16. Sexist and obscene?

I'm sure it won't be nearly as obscene as Ms Hopkins usual bile. She's gone from reality TV washout to our version of Ann Coulter.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. I guess I'm lucky to be a yank who's never heard of her

That tweet does make a good first impression.

I suppose that as a "reality TV washout" she's a natual ally of The Donald.

[T_i_B]

19. She is indeed a natural ally of Old Fartface

Old Fartface has even tried using her hateful clickbait to justify his own bigoted ideas in the past.

The reason the Tories lost is because they went over the top on the racism in this election. That might work in parts of the home counties but it doesn't work in London.

[Bad Dog]

20. He's a human rights lawyer brought up on a council estate.

His faith seems a lot more important to Americans than to us.

[Bad Dog]

23. Gandalf endorses Khan.

And unlike his predecessor Boris, who thought he could serve as London mayor, write columns for the Torygraph and the Specttor and lead the Brexit campaign whilst still sitting as an MP, Khan treats the post of London mayor as a full time job so he will be stepping down as Tooting MP.