Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Sadiq Khan re-elected as Mayor of London" video.

@billisaac326 The views of racists like you don't count because you can't see beyond race. Khan has done quite a few good things for London. Bailey is just a Tory mouthpiece with no brains or thoughts of his own.
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@unionjackjackson4352 P.S. 7,000 of the houses started in one year, before Covid lockdowns, will be for social rent and that is more than all the social housing produced in the whole of Boris's term as mayor. The rest of the houses are at 'affordable' levels which is a term coined by the Tory government with the precise meaning of 80% of market value.
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@pauld5723 Shaun Bailey has changed his tune on stop and search for election purposes. I've seen a video of him in a GLA meeting where Khan is talking about increasing stop and search and Bailey is shouting at him that it's racist. Increased spending well controlled and used is not wasteful but Khan is limited in what he can spend because the government cut central funding to local authorities by 80% since 2010 and he's limited in what he's allowed to raise from local taxes too. The Tory government since 2010 has centralised a lot of power and control, taking much away from local government. Boris Johnson was the wasteful one with the money he's wasted on vanity projects when he was Mayor: £53m on the failed Garden Bridge project, a new fleet of buses at over £1m per bus, and buying second hand German water tanks that turned out to be illegal to use in the UK. As P.M he's really upped the ante. He spent £37bn on contracts to friends and supporters that he's not published, as legally required, and he's set aside £100bn for bi-weekly Covid testing with a test that's only 50% accurate and which experts say is highly unlikely to meet his objectives. As for bus fares, I've lived in London over 30 years and it's a long time now since fares were 80p. They do go up with inflation but having 2 journeys for the price of one cuts down travel costs and makes a significant difference to the lowest paid (minimum wage) workers .
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@pauld5723 I don't think the police are demoralised. Where do you get that idea from? Police are only demoralised when they are constantly criticised by the communities they police, not when occasional mistakes are made but in an ongoing way. Good training ensures they can take the appropriate action to fit circumstances, work with and for communities and not against them, and have confidence in what they do. The police in the UK are better trained and trained for longer, than those in the USA.
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That's because you don't think much at all, I suspect.
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@luboss0008 Do you vote on the grounds of race rather than policies?
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@luboss0008 You ignoramus! It's the government that funds the police. If they give less to Mayor's and councils then Mayors and councils have less in their budgets for police. Since 2010 government cuts to police budgets have resulted in 20,000 fewer police. Khan actually put some of his London money into those budgets to try and make up for some of the cuts but he doesn't have enough spare money to make up for the scale of government cuts. Also the government has more generally cut central funding to councils by 80% since 2010. They hope that voters will blame local councils and Mayors for the consequences, and by golly they were right on your account.
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I guess you are not a Londoner.
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You love Youtube too?? Evidence of corruption?
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@unionjackjackson4352 That's an ignorant comment. The Home Office has a budget for police. It may be money that finds its way to the Mayor and local councils, but it originates from the government. The government has cut funding for police so much since 2010 that the police were reduced by 20,000 posts. Khan actually put some of London's money into the police budgets to try and offset some of the damage but he doesn't have the kind of spare funds for that to make up for the government cuts. P.S. To be perfectly fair, recently the government has said it will add to police funds to make up for some of its cuts. I don't think they will restore the whole amount though.
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@pauld5723 You could actually look it up. He has a house building programme (he has begun building over 56,000 homes), funded an anti-pollution programme, which will help to protect schoolchildren from toxic air https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/schools-benefit-from-mayors-air-quality-audits, he has a tree planting programme He has an anti crime programme https://sadiq.london/campaign/crime/ https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/mayor-announces-thousands-of-new-street-trees he capped some tube fares and introduced 2 bus journey for the price of one . This helped low paid workers in the city. He stopped the wasteful spending on Bojo's unnecessary vanity project 'The Garden Bridge' which was running into financial trouble and threatening to soak up ever more taxpayers money when the project had not even secured the land on the south side of the bridge to build that end of it. These are further promises for 2021 https://labourlist.org/2021/04/5-policy-pledges-in-sadiq-khans-2021-election-labour-manifesto-for-london/ London's crime increased as a result of the Tory government making huge cuts to funding of local authorities and police budgets resulting in 20,000 fewer police officers since 2010. Khan put some London money back into police budgets but he didn't have enough spare to make up for the huge government cuts. He pushed the Metropolitan police to do more stop and search to combat knife crime. His Tory opponent, Shaun Bailey, was against that as he said it was racist. The Tory government has cut its funding to local authorities by 80% since 2010 and local councils had to cut funding for leisure centres, your centres and day care centres as a result as well as other projects aimed at young people. The government probably hoped that people will blame local authorities/Mayors for the consequences of that. Some people blame him for TfL's debt but he actually paid off more of it than when Boris Johnson was Mayor. However Covid lockdowns have since affected its income stream.
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This is what he has done and what he has promised to do in his next term: He has a house building programme (he has begun building over 56,000 homes), funded an anti-pollution programme, which will help to protect schoolchildren from toxic air https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/schools-benefit-from-mayors-air-quality-audits, he has a tree planting programme He has an anti crime programme https://sadiq.london/campaign/crime/ https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/mayor-announces-thousands-of-new-street-trees he capped some tube fares and introduced 2 bus journey for the price of one . This helped low paid workers in the city. He stopped the wasteful spending on Bojo's unnecessary vanity project 'The Garden Bridge' which was running into financial trouble and threatening to soak up ever more taxpayers money when the project had not even secured the land on the south side of the bridge to build that end of it. These are further promises for 2021 https://labourlist.org/2021/04/5-policy-pledges-in-sadiq-khans-2021-election-labour-manifesto-for-london/ London's crime increased as a result of the Tory government making huge cuts to funding of local authorities and police budgets resulting in 20,000 fewer police officers since 2010. Khan put some London money back into police budgets but he didn't have enough spare to make up for the huge government cuts. He pushed the Metropolitan police to do more stop and search to combat knife crime. His Tory opponent, Shaun Bailey, was against that as he said it was racist. The Tory government has cut its funding to local authorities by 80% since 2010 and local councils had to cut funding for leisure centres, your centres and day care centres as a result as well as other projects aimed at young people. The government probably hoped that people will blame local authorities/Mayors for the consequences of that. Some people blame him for TfL's debt but he actually paid off more of it than when Boris Johnson was Mayor. However Covid lockdowns have since affected its income stream.
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@unionjackjackson4352 What you're saying isn't true. You haven't bothered to look up any facts have you? TfL was in debt in Boris's time as Mayor. The pollution policies have not been in place for years. Again you didn't look at the the facts. I would know if they were in place previously. I have asthma and live on a main road and have lived here for over 30 years. Public transport is I think the cheapest in the country - buses are anyway and the services are frequent. A bus journey anywhere in London costs £1.55 and 2 journeys within an hour can be done for that price. Similar bus journeys in Manchester cost over £4 says the Mayor of Manchester. You can't see beyond race and your own prejudices and I'm not going to engage any more with someone who doesn't want to look at the facts and is racist.
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@unionjackjackson4352 Look it up for yourself, lazy boy.
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@unionjackjackson4352 Look these up yourself, lazy boy. I'm fed up of doing all the work for you. Do you pull your weight at work?
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@unionjackjackson4352 You don't know. You say 'whenever housing is built' but social housing (which is truly affordable) has not been built under the Tories. Since Margaret Thatcher's day it has been the Tory objective to get rid of it or as much of it as they could. She forced councils to sell it off. Then for a long time councils were not allowed to build more. Now they don't have the money for it and any they build they could be forced to sell off in the future. Much of the housing sold off eventually ended up in the hands of landlords who rented them out at market rents which are high in London. The Tories are all about keeping house prices high and protecting developers.
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@unionjackjackson4352 Blair was a closet Tory. He was an admirer of Margaret Thatcher but even with rents going up social housing would still have been the cheapest for people to live in. You have to be a British Citizen to be eligible for Social Housing or someone with a long term right to stay. https://www.thetenantsvoice.co.uk/advice_from_us/are-you-eligible-for-social-housing/ With councils, some are nearly bankrupt. Overall the debt far outweighs the 10s of millions you mention. Traditionally wealthy councils (mostly Tory) have not been hit as badly by Tory government cuts and don't spend as much on services for their citizens. For instance Westminster Council doesn't have the extent of homelessness and poverty to deal with that some of the others do. (Westminster at one time was exporting their homeless to other boroughs) Some have got themselves into trouble by creating and investing in housebuilding projects without the experience or knowledge (Croydon is one). This was trying to raise income in alternative ways after big (80%) cuts to central funding. https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/exactly-one-londons-richest-councils-18327652
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@unionjackjackson4352 But councils are limited in how much they can raise as council tax from residents. Wealthier councils with lots of businesses do better than areas that have lost businesses and areas with lots of unemployed, get reduced council tax from those. It's a vicious circle - the more poverty the less council tax, but the more legally required or voluntary spending is needed.
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@unionjackjackson4352 Here: educate yourself on council tax. https://citizensassembly.co.uk/how-is-local-government-funded/#:~:text=1%20More%20government%20grant%20funding.%20Councils%20are%20expected,percentage%20of%20VAT%20receipts%20%28VAT%20cannot%20be%20 The government used to ensure fairer distribution of income but from 2020 councils can keep all their business tax raised so more prosperous councils benefit at the expense of others. Since 2010 deprived areas have had their grants cut more than less deprived areas.
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@unionjackjackson4352 Do you have any evidence for your allegations or is it just your bigotry in play? Are you a Londoner? I suspect not.
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@unionjackjackson4352 P.S. When you don't like the facts you revert back to unsupported allegations. That's a sad mentality to be unable to fact facts.
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@unionjackjackson4352 I suppose you'd rather have an 'honest' man like Boris's puppet in charge. Boris is an honest man isn't he?
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@fentonfairway5793 Small minded or what?
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That's because you are a turkey.
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@fentonfairway5793 Don't be silly. You've been reading too much trash media.
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