London Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan “admitted he has failed to provide ‘proper leadership'” as he opened up about how the coronavirus lockdown “has affected his mental health.”
Nice try. Sadiq Khan has never provided “proper leadership” from the start of his mayoral tenure. In fact, he is only mayor of London in the first place because of his identity as a Muslim, not because of his competence or his dedication to the people of London.
When Khan became mayor, his Muslim identity was made front and center above all else. According to Time Magazine, Khan became “the most powerful Muslim politician in Europe.”
Khan’s speech upon becoming mayor reflected his commitment to identity politics. He stated: “I’m so proud that London has today chosen hope over fear, and unity over division.” It was pompous, self-important, and divisive of him to assert that London needed to choose a Muslim mayor in order to choose hope and unity.
Khan couldn’t wait to intrude into America’s business and attack Trump for his temporary ban on immigration from several Muslim countries, even though the countries of concern were chosen by Obama. Days after he became mayor, Khan called Trump’s views on Muslims “ignorant,” stating: “Donald Trump’s ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe: It risks alienating mainstream Muslims around the world and plays into the hands of the extremists.” Trump replied: “He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.”
Only four months later, after a jihad bomb explosion in New York City, Khan again butted into American affairs, criticizing Trump for stating rightly that it was time to “get tough.” Instead, Khan said that terror attacks were “part and parcel” of life in a big city. Meanwhile, London quickly became a showcase of Khan’s utter failure.
Under his leadership, jihad gangs have proliferated. Acid attacks and knife attacks have soared. Three years after Khan became mayor, a knife crime epidemic struck London, with over 51 murders in 6 months. A Muslim migrant “acid gang” was sentenced following violent, unprovoked attacks on gays. London gangs also included “the Mali Boys,” who were “organised, ruthless and driven by drugs profits.” (Mali is a Muslim country plagued by Islamic rebel groups aiming to impose strict Islamic law upon the country. Those groups include Ansar Dine, the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Signed-in-Blood Battalion, and the Islamic Movement for Azawad.) Somali rape gangs have also victimized girls in London.
With Khan as mayor, London became a cesspool of crime. Jihad preachers speak and recruit freely. An Islamic State jihadist “tried to create jihadist child army in east London,” and Somali parents began sending their children back home to save them from knife attacks in London.
Khan’s incompetent response to crime in London has been a war on free speech, as he warned Facebook and Twitter about “hate speech.”
Now add coronavirus and Black Lives Matter headaches, and Sadiq Khan is ready to admit that he has not provided proper leadership as mayor of London. Yet he doesn’t admit the truth about his failed leadership from day one. He blames it on “bouts of loneliness during lockdown” and now hides behind his “mental health struggle.” How convenient.
“Sadiq Khan admits he has ‘not been providing proper leadership’ as Mayor of London because of bouts of ‘loneliness’ during lockdown as he opens up on his mental health ‘struggle,’” by Henry Martin, MailOnline, June 21, 2020:
Sadiq Khan admitted he has failed to provide ‘proper leadership’ as he opens up about how lockdown has affected his mental health.
The London Mayor said that he was used to stressful situations, but the past 10 or 11 weeks had been ‘the hardest of [his] professional life, in relation to the loneliness’.
‘I’ve found it really tough,’ he said in a interview with The Times. ‘So, for eight weeks I didn’t leave, literally, my home and Tooting Common. That’s it. I thrive on company, on being out and about. And I was struggling.’
When asked if it had affected his mental health, Mr Khan said: ‘I’ve got no doubt it did. In the sense of just feeling a bit down. There are days when I’m not providing proper leadership. I definitely … I felt fragile.’
The interviewer said that when she met the London Mayor in City Hall he had been checking whether his trousers still fit for the occasion – which was only the third time he had put them on in 11 weeks.
Mr Khan added: ‘Being a leader is lonely. And I’ve struggled. I also realised I should feel confident talking about it. I shouldn’t feel that I’ve got to be this alpha male who demonstrates his virility by being superhuman. I’ve got to be honest because, you know, I have struggled.’
When asked if he had cried, Mr Khan admitted he was ‘a cried’ who could ‘cry in a film’.
There had been several times where he had been sad and ‘quite tearful’, he says, and many times where he had felt frustrated and angry. He said he felt angriest that the prime minister had not invited him, in his role of mayor, to Cobra meetings.
Mr Khan was not invited to a meeting until March 16, even though he had written to the health secretary asking to be involved in Covid planning in February. The Mayor said he had no doubt they were keeping him in the dark on purpose.
Speaking on the environmental opportunity the crisis offers the capital, Mr Khan said that, although it was an ‘awful, awful’ virus that led to lockdown, there is a potential silver lining in the possibility of converting Londoners to greener forms of transport like walking and cycling.
On the topic of the protests that have erupted across the world following the killing of George Floyd in America, Mr Khan said he endorsed Black Lives Matter, and he likely would have joined the demonstrations had it not been for coronavirus.
Mr Khan said when he saw police officers at Black Lives Matter protests kneeling in solidarity, he was ‘proud that they had the confidence to express their feelings without worrying about being disciplined’. ….
Emilie Green says
“He blames it on ’bouts of loneliness during lockdown’ and now hides behind his ‘mental health struggle.'”
No, it can all be laid at the feet of your being a Muslim and that Islam is the focus of your life.
maria says
he is a typical takiya liar. What is PM Boris Johnson doing? UK will be destroyed if they don´t imprison or better deport all the muslims to their contries. And all the migrants must deported immediately because they are the Trojan horses
Angela Chandler says
They all have a habit of hiding behind their mental state. Even when stabbing and killing, bombing and raping. It’s the habit of the Muslim. And him being a Mayor of London, this disgraceful man has spend 4yrs sitting on his arse, watching London being destroyed, poking his nose in greenbelt, helping his muslim people obtain social housing. God forbid if we had got away with a quarter of what he has done. Sack this man before more damage is done. Loves BLM, says it all. A terrorist group.
Beverly says
I can’t believe that Londonistan voted for a Muslim in the first place.
Jayell says
Unfortunately it’s because it is ‘Londonistan’ (largest overall urban muslim population in the UK) that we got this joker. This ‘mental health’ story is obviously just a lame excuse because one has to ask for his excuse for the rest of the mess he’s made; or was he a bit off his trolley before as well? If he can’t take the pressure in these conditions, why didn’t he step down, because everyone else at his level has been able to handle it and someone else could have stepped in (Boris Johnson even nearly died from the virus but has bounced back on form) – it would show that he’s simply not up to the job, and being just plain incompetent would probably induce depression anyway. Or has he been told to come up with this load of hogwash because the Labour Party want to put someone else up for election in his place next year rather than lose outright, and this is the most convincing face-saving get-out they can think of – with a ton of spurious ‘sympathy’ to pre-empt the thousands of critics? One more bare-faced lie won’t matter especially where it’s a muslim involved.
mortimer says
Mad mayor … in more ways than one. Rage has always exuded from him.
Rufolino says
All future Mayors of London are going to be Moslem because of the Moslem vote.
If there are three outstanding Christian candidates for Mayor, and one abysmal Moslem candidate, the Moslem will win.
London has become de facto a Moslem city.
David says
Could be something to do with there being a large number of muslims in Londonistan, and postal vote rigging. Muslim councillors were implicated.
Paddy OConnor says
Inbreeding is pandemic in Pakistanis……Mayor Khan is succumbing,going under..
Hope he doesn’t do an Allahu Ackba on Londoners!
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Peter WF says
Search-
“world map average IQ”
“world map marry first cousins”
“world map corruption”
“world map muslims”
dan says
VOTING FOR A MUSLIM (For the most part) IS LIKE VOTING FOR INFTA.
maria says
Exactly and like voting for the nazis
Mischief Maker in the Land says
To re-use a Monty Python line…….
“Well, Mr. Khan, tests have shown that you are a pompous, self-important, and divisive person.”
mortimer says
You said it! Pompous, self-important, divisive.
He should resign but won’t.
Fredex8 says
people get the “leadership” they deserve. If they have no brains to elect an idiot they deserve him. And, once they make a mistake in electing the wrong “leader” they need to have the courage to remove him from office. No courage, tough….suffer your own failure.
maria says
where are the Brittish protesters? Are they afraid of the muslims or admie them?
Demand new elections and have a hard control. Besides, no muslims should be allowed to vote.
In the former communsit countries like for exampleCzech republic they are working on a plan to forbide islam and closing mosques(even though there are not so many mosques).
And no members of the police should be muslims even if they lie (takiya) that they converted to Christianity.
Dawne Swift says
If we protest against having a muslim mayor we’ll be arrested and lose our jobs. People have protested against his incompetence but there is no way of removing him mid term and there are now so many muslims and other immigrants in London that it’s a Labour city. If Labour put him up as a candidate, however bad he is he’ll be re-elected.
David says
Diversity is divisive. BLM MLM WL don’t M
Ren says
Sadiq is incompetent just like Obama.
maria says
Of course both are muslims
Dawne Swift says
This always happens when ppl are promoted to positions because of their colour or religion. They are never up to actually doing the job.
old school says
This sudden explanation for his not-recent failure as a leader makes me wonder what scandal is about to unfold there.
Phil Copson says
“…. I also realised I should feel confident talking about it. I shouldn’t feel that I’ve got to be this alpha male who demonstrates his virility by being superhuman….”
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Sadiq – that is the least of your worries. Nobody anywhere has ever had the slightest concern that they might one day mistake Sadiq Khan for an Alpha male, let alone one whose virility may be demonstrated at any moment by superhuman displays of anything except uselessness and vote farming.
keith O says
A couple of things.
First off. He just admitted that he has mental health issues. Given the importance of the role of mayor of London,WHY HASN’T HE BEEN STOOD DOWN OR REPLACED?
Second. This is typical Muslim behavior, BLAME SOMEONE OR SOMETHING ELSE FOR BAD BEHAVIOR.
Somehow, just not surprised at his attempt at victim hood.
Wellington says
Seconded.
James Lincoln says
So, London Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan:
1. Admitted he has failed to provide proper leadership.
2. Admitted that the COVID lockdown has affected his mental health.
The one thing that he will NOT admit is that he was – and still is – unfit to continue as mayor…
Wellington says
Yes indeed, James, Khan will never admit that. But, you know, I don’t blame Khan first and foremost, highly deficient human being though he is, just as I don’t blame the Islamic world first and foremost for all its iniquities and stupidities, now, sadly, ever more present by the year in the West.
No, first and foremost, I blame the non-Muslim political elites in the West, people like Tony Blair and George Bush, also and most certainly non-Muslim academics aplenty, ditto for non-Muslim rubes in the media (e.g., imagine what Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC really knows about Islam), and shallow business executives (e.g., the Ford Foundation has given Black Lives Matter—a Marxist, thuggish, American hating organization—a 100 million dollar grant) for remaining in some kind of overall stupid or exculpatory extortion money mode.
Like you, I voted for Bush 43 twice. And what a monumental disappointment he has shown himself to be. My God, his wife, Laura, criticized Trump for trying to establish an effective southern border, as though doing so was something evil or misguided.
I’m reminded here, referencing the era in which we live, of what W.B. Yeats wrote, to wit, “The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Western Civilization now hangs by a thin thread (it actually always has but it’s even thinner now) and men and women of greatness are needed to “step in” once again to save the best of mankind from the seemingly ubiquitous worst of mankind.
Trump right now is Western civilization’s best hope (and I have very little or no time for those who do not see this), and I admire him a great deal for this, but I think the time is coming very soon when another Abraham Lincoln (even whose statues are not safe from the mob) or Winston Churchill (even whose statues are not safe from the mob) will be an imperative presence for the greatest civilization of all time to survive, the very civilization that pioneered freedom and many other wonderful things like true equality under the law, women’s rights and the capacity to apologize for past wrongdoings, far more so than any other civilization in history has.
Well, thanks for reading what I have written. I was ” up to” it. And time for a Yuengling Porter. Thereafter, I will read something that will take me away from my age, perhaps a present tome I am devouring about Anglo-Saxon England, because being taken away from my age is ever increasingly appearing to me, and appealing to me, as something beneficial to my mental health and overall health—rather as running and good beer are.
But I will never quit, as I know by now you won’t either. Better dead than a quitter. Robert Spencer serves as my inspiration here because no one in the West has been more a force for freedom, honesty and truth than he.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Much thanks for the well written – and accurate reply.
Tough times indeed…
On a lighter note, do you know any place in the Boston area where I could find a Yuengling Porter – preferably on draft?
I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve never had one…
Wellington says
James: I have come across Yuengling Lager on tap or in cans or bottles in MA but never Yuengling Porter. Unfortunately, in NH you can’t even get Yeungling Lager at all.
tim gallagher says
Khan always seems to be the good Muslim, always trying to push the Muslim agenda. I believe he said that people in our western world, like the people who live in London, just have to get used to having terrorist attacks, in the way that all places where Muslims live have to live with such garbage. I can’t understand how he was voted into the office of mayor. I guess it was a display of virtue signalling by the inhabitants of London, you know, where they display to the world how wonderfully accepting of Muslims they are. I’m sure Khan will always be seeking to push the barbaric Muslim agenda in all areas of policy. The sooner they get rid of him as mayor, the better.
Rufolino says
This Moslem mayor was voted into office by London’s Moslems. End of explanation. There won’t be any Christian Mayors of London in the future.
Linde Barrera says
To Rufolino- I refuse to visit the UK because of their pandering to Islam. I do not want my hard earned US dollars to be anywhere near where they could be used for terrorist sympathizers. And I think Mayor Khan is just a punk and not a real mayor.
James Lincoln says
Very likely so, Rufolino.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Rufolino. Are there really enough Muslims infesting London to get a Muslim elected? It must be a horrible place these days if that is the case. I only went to London once way back in the early 1980s and it was a pretty pleasant city then. I live in Sydney and we have a very left wing, politically correct mayor there (that is, for the central business district). A lot of inner city trendy types seem to get her re-elected over and over again. Nothing relating to Muslims at all, but she is a poster woman for every politically correct issue you could think of. It means nothing to me as I live a hell of a long way from the centre of the city.
gravenimage says
I don’t think there are enough Muslims even in London to swing an election on their own. The foolish Infidels who voted for Khan thought they were thrilled at how “politically correct” they were being.
ELI says
“Khan couldn’t wait to intrude into America’s business and attack Trump for his temporary ban on immigration from several Muslim countries, even though the countries of concern were chosen by Obama.”
Why would a secret Muslim dedicated to destroying America be involved in any way in such a decision?
Michael Copeland says
More specifically the list was drawn up during the time of Obama (not BY him). His track record is that he did not implement it.
gravenimage says
Right, Michael.
ntesdorf says
Being a Muslim is more damaging to your mental health than suffering a bout of Covid-19. Sadiq Khan is living proof of this.
mortimer says
Islam is a lifelong retreat from reality. With constant practice it becomes automatic to shift blame onto the ‘others’.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
According to Sujit Das in his book “Islam Dismantled” Islam’s founder Muhammad suffered from malignant narcissism, and was also affected by neurotic disorder which caused regular psychiatric delusions. Is London’s Islamic mayor likewise affected?
David says
Well, muslims love to follow the example of their prophet. The affliction is called Islamania.
Malcolm Jackson says
Everyone knows Islam is a mental health problem..
Caused by 1,400 years of inbreeding.
maria says
Yes, and that is why they should be kept off Europe, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. And of course from Middle east and Asia. Put them all to the islands in the Pacifique or to Africa
Lenny Leaps In says
Sadiq Khan became Mayor of London because when he put his hand up as a candidate he urged all the Muslims to get up and vote for him. And they got up and did vote for him. Voting is not compulsory. Sadiq Khan read and used the UK voting system well.
Same thing happened in the USA when Obama did everything he could do to mass migrate as many Muslims into the US as he could. And the Muslims voted for their own and now the US have such nutty politician as that Muslim woman Omar in office. All the Somalian immigrants got up voted for her. Voting in the US is not compulsory as with the UK.
Jake2169 says
This clown is on about £140,000 a year + expenses. Now he wants sympathy for being in a lockdown situation that we have all had to endure. Does he speak to his wife and children or is that not allowed in Islam? Is it because of his religion that he has been unable to manage his mental health? Personally, I think that every Muslim who reads and follows the war manual better known as the Koran is mentally unstable and they should all seek treatment. “Allah and Mohammed” will be of no help, their teachings and let’s be honest their cultural practices are enough to send us all to cuckoo land!!
I suppose on top of sympathy he wants free treatment for his mental breakdown. This is his way of dealing with the complete failure he has turned out to be. Still it may make Muslims in Londonistan think seriously about voting in another of their kind. The guy has been a complete and utter clown from the first day, but he persevered in order to collect his salary from taxpayers. He will stay in office as long as possible to get as much as he can!!
jca reid says
Get rid of him, any way, any how. Couldn’t run a bath.
Peter WF says
Unfortunately for me I can’t use my mental health as an excuse.
Fortunately for him he use my mental health as an excuse.
David says
He had the gall to say” Terrorism is just part and parcel of living in a big city”
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan admits “improper leadership,” blames his poor mental health during coronavirus lockdown
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A Mayor of London–Sir George Wilkinson–guided her through the Blitz–surely that was rather more stressful than Covid-19?
And if this is actually causing Khan to be *mentally ill*, then he should step down. After all, he has *ten* Deputy Mayors, the most of any London mayor ever. I would look forward to that.
Of course, this is all claptrap, in any case–he was a terrible mayor long before the Coronavirus outbreak.
infidel says
Muslim leaders, be they in 3rd party Khafir countries or even in their own countries are JUST LAZY AND ALL TALK AND NO ACTION….. Obama was also one like that…
infidel says
Muslims are like fish out of water when they are on their own… Islam and Muslim are CHRONIC ATTENTION SEEKERS… They thrive on the attention of others.. esp of the Khafir. And they also do lots of toxic politics since the Koran is a very political book… … spreading innuendos, toxic rumors… from here to there and there to here, creating misunderstandings and enmity where there was none or exacerbate previous differences, This is in effect their leadership bread and butter tactics and mainstay…That is why a Muslim is the most unhappy in isolation… without the attentions of the khafir, ISLAM WITHERS AND DIES…. it needs the Khafir for sustenance.. This in itself is another Islamic truism from the annals of the infidel
infidel says
And I can’t help to add.. that longer this toxic mayor is on his own, the better for the UK.