Sadiq Khan can no longer deny the truth about lawless London
Labour’s Mayor is just one of a number of progressives who seem blind to the reality of life in the capital today
Labour party members adore Sir Sadiq Khan. Even they, however, would surely have to concede that their beloved Mayor of London is currently looking just a tiny bit foolish. Because, on Saturday, he wrote an article for the Daily Mirror, breezily proclaiming that London is “one of the safest cities in the world” – and that only “the unpatriotic few” could disagree.
“Unfortunately, London-bashing has become something of a national and international sport,” tutted Sir Sadiq, “with populist politicians, commentators and keyboard warriors trading in fear, not facts”.
Very well, Mr Mayor. Here’s a fact for you. In the days since you made that proud boast about how wonderfully safe London is, high-street shops in Clapham – one of London’s most desirable and affluent areas to live in – have been repeatedly attacked and looted by vast gangs of marauding teenage thugs.
The local Marks & Spencer, which had been overrun on Saturday by as many as 100 feral youths, was also forced to close early on Tuesday – as were Waitrose, Boots and McDonald’s. Meanwhile, terrified families were reportedly “barricaded” inside Sainsbury’s, as hordes of masked and hooded hooligans tore through the streets.
Are the ordinary shoppers who posted their footage of these scenes guilty of “trading in fear”? Were they “London-bashing”? Should they instead have tweeted: “Another gloriously safe trip to the shops in our peaceful capital. Slight hold-up paying for my rosemary and sea salt focaccia, as a result of the nightly mass invasion by teenage gangs, but on the plus side, I wasn’t murdered…”?
To be fair to Sir Sadiq, though, he isn’t the only progressive who seems blind to the reality of 2020s London. In January, the i newspaper published an opinion column with the extraordinary headline: “I’ve been mugged three times in London, but it’s rubbish to say it’s not safe”. The author, who lives in the capital, conceded that she had “had my phone snatched out of my hand twice, both times in the exact same neighbourhood”, had “had to go to hospital after a violent mugging” and had also had to go to A&E after “an XL bully attacked me and my dog”. Yet she insisted that calling London unsafe was merely “misinformation” spread by “Maga types”.
That same month, a similar view was expressed by Sir Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan Police. In a radio interview, he indignantly insisted that London “is a safe city”, and blamed “pundits” for making people think that “crime in London is somehow out of control”.
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In 2024, the Met recorded almost 90,000 shoplifting offences – up 165 per cent from 2021 … [and] an astonishing 81,365 phone thefts.
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