There are some people who should never ever be allowed anywhere near the levers of power over policing. One of the most notable of these people who should be kept away from policing in Britain today is London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Since his election to the position as Greater London Mayor and thereby becoming the major political control over the Metropolitan Police, London has seen not just a massive rise in murder and violence, but also massive waste on vanity projects such as his ‘hate crime hub’. As an ex-Londoner I weep for what has become of my nation’s capital city.

Under Khan and his merry band of left wing idiots along with a Commissioner of Police who’s only claim to fame was giving the erroneous order to kill an innocent Brazilian electrician on a tube train whom the lead officer mistook for a terrorist, London has descended into a cesspit of murder. So far this year there have been 129 murders of which 23 of these killings have been of teenagers. Unfortunately this death toll is likely to rise even further by the end of this year.

It it sadly quite possible that this year’ ‘Khanage’ under this increasingly inept Mayor of Greater London may pass last years horrific figure of 132 killings. A more grounded and sensible leader of London would have recognised that London has a problem with violence and would do something about it. However, Khan is not that leader. Whenever there has been a particularly high profile murder Khan has trotted himself out and dispensed some mindless and empty platitudes but has done nothing that could be called effective in dealing with this crime wave. Khan has instead wasted £1.7 Million on a ‘hate crime hub’ that seems to spend all its time hunting down those who utter ‘hurty words’. This money could and should have been spent more effectively. It could have been spent on more general police officers or even diversion from crime projects for those at risk of for example getting involved in gang related activity, but it wasn’t, this money was spent on a Khan vanity project.

Khan is also incapable of being honest about the cause of this violence. He blames ‘Tory cuts’ for the killings and says nothing at all about the demographics of those who are both victims and perpetrators of these murders. I find it extremely ironic that a man who came to power on a platform of playing the race card with regards policing has overseen policies that have seen far too many Black Londoners killed, too often by other Black Londoners.

Khan has been an utter disaster for London. He’s been a disaster for business, especially small businesses and he has been a disaster for London socially as well. His time in office will be remembered for the bloodshed that he could have helped prevent but didn’t and I think that not even such a self centred and utterly shameless individual like Khan would want that to be their legacy.