Gary Baldi
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As with that far right retweet, I don't think Trump fully gets it or has the attention span to. It's not an excuse, but the reality of 73 year old pensioner with itchy trigger fingers and a love of bad cable news. I did cringe reading Londonistan, but that is Katie Hopkins. Re: Khan and tweets, see the above post to TonyW. And I did say minorities BTW to include the various non-white groups. This is just one example: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/st...n-presidential-race-iowa-caucuses/3649719002/If you keep referring to racists then it suggests you agree with their ideas (ie. Katie Hopkins and Londonistan) and your policies target particular groups of people based on their race then you are a racist. Trump is a racist. Are African Americans the only race? Can you talk me through why Trump keeps tweeting about the Mayor of London?
And if those demonstrators didn't move on as in Extinction rebellion, what is he supposed to do? Most demonstrations do end on the day. Again what is Khan supposed to do other than ban protests to cut the cost, he isn't creating the issues (they are national/global issues) that people are demonstrating about yet you blame Khan?
So the Police are looking at knife crime, so the organisations under Khan's remit are doing their job and focusing on it.
You know Khan hasn't tried to bring the different organisations together as I'm not the one saying he hasn't provided leadership? Based on my reading (as explained above) and my experience working in local Govt, bringing together different public sector organisations is not a short process and not straightforward as you seem to be implying here. The cross working partnerships I was involved in took years to come to fruition and that involved far less organisations (that also assumes those organisations are willing to be involved) than Khan would have to work with to get this off the ground. As an example of the risks from Essexyellow's NHS link above:
"Partnership working is vulnerable, given that partnerships are not statutory bodies and face significant challenges. Three-quarters of partnerships have a deficit when the finances of their constituent trusts and CCGs are added together. Even the most advanced partnerships face significant challenges in managing demand within the resources available. The areas we visited all reported making progress on partnership working within the existing legal framework. However, the need for organisations to meet their own statutory requirements may hinder partnership working. Partnerships are not statutory bodies supported by a legislative framework, and so require the goodwill of all involved. Continued financial pressure will test this goodwill. National bodies, in discussion with NHS colleagues, have developed a provisional list of potential legislative changes for Parliamentโs consideration to support better integration in the best interest of patients (paragraphs 3.7 and 3.8)."
Without your link, I don't know which comments of Khan's you are claiming are left wing gibberish.
As I say, it's more complicated because he says incredibly large amounts of dumb stuff, but the actions are different.
You're saying the London Mayor can do nothing within his organisation about moving people on from a disruptive protest. Ok, fair enough.
If the Mayor had brought people together, he would be rightly crowing about it, and Labour would be using it to say, look how incompetent the Govt are, we are doing this even though it will take years to fully form. We need a general election. Something Labour are really, really good at.
The silence is therefore deafening?