Sadiq Khan
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| Born | Sadiq Aman Khan 8 October 1970 London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of North London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Islam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Saadiya Ahmed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | British-American Project, Franco-British Colloque | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sadiq Khan (born 8 October 1970) – a former human rights lawyer – is a Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting in South London since 2005. He won the 2016 London mayoral election and was sworn in as Mayor of London on 7 May 2016.[1]
Contents
Victory for hope over fear
On his Facebook page, Sadiq Khan wrote:
- Thank you!
- Today was an amazing victory for hope over fear and for unity over division – and it simply would not have been possible without your help.
- This victory is not about me. It's about the millions of Londoners whose lives we can improve by building more affordable homes, freezing fares, restoring community policing and cleaning up our toxic air.
- Thanks to the time, money and support you gave, we were able to overcome a desperate and nasty Tory campaign. We've sent a strong message that the politics of fear are not welcome in London.
- Now the hard work starts. Let's make London even better for all Londoners.
- Thanks again, Sadiq[2]
London bombings slur
Referring to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in a desperate attempt to avoid defeat, Zac Goldsmith wrote in the Mail on Sunday on 1 May 2016:
- “On Thursday, are we really going to hand the world’s greatest city to a Labour Party that thinks terrorists are its friends?”[3]
To which, Sadiq Khan tweeted in response:
- @ZacGoldsmith's campaign is getting more desperate and divisive by the day.[4]
Top priority for new London Mayor
Before the announcement of Khan's election as Mayor, this post appeared on the Facebook page "2016 London mayoral election should focus on Heathrow Airport":
- The Mayor of London is required to set policing and crime priorities for the Metropolitan Police Service.
- The new Mayor's top priority must be to get Scotland Yard finally to investigate the murder of 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, in particular the targeting of the highest profile victim: Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Bernt Carlsson.[5]
Following his swearing-in on 7 May 2016, this was posted to Khan's Facebook page:
- On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 - the Boeing 747 jumbo jet with a bomb and 259 passengers and crew aboard - took off from Heathrow Airport at 18:25hrs. It exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland at 17:03hrs killing 270 people, including eleven in the town.
- The targeting of Lockerbie's highest profile victim Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Bernt Carlsson, has never been investigated.
- The new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, must get the Metropolitan Police Service to undertake a Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry as a top priority.[6]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Jewish Money And The Labour Party | article | 11 April 2016 | Gilad Atzmon | The Labour party is evidently dependent on the shekel pipeline. The numbers reveal why Labour has been hijacked by Jewish interests. Whether or not we like it, our leading opposition party is a hostage begging for the mercy of few wealthy Jews. |
| Document:The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's "antisemitism" scandal breaks his silence | Interview | 3 May 2016 | Norman Finkelstein Jamie Stern-Weiner | Norman G. Finkelstein is clear: "It’s time to put a stop to this periodic charade, because it ends up besmirching the victims of the Nazi holocaust, diverting from the real suffering of the Palestinian people, and poisoning relations between the Jewish and Muslim communities. You just had an antisemitism hysteria last year, and it was a farce. And now again? Another inquiry? Another investigation? No." |
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References
- ↑ "Elections: Labour's Sadiq Khan elected London mayor"
- ↑ "Victory for hope over fear and for unity over division"
- ↑ "Zac Goldsmith criticised by former Tory minister Baroness Warsi over Sadiq Khan 7/7 London terror bus image"
- ↑ "Zac Goldsmith's campaign is getting more desperate and divisive by the day"
- ↑ "2016 London mayoral election should focus on Heathrow Airport"
- ↑ "Top priority for new London Mayor"
