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It is London - hardly surprising. Nothing will improve as long as Khan is Mayor, and may not even if he is replaced. Anyway, MI6 (SIS) is the overseas spies,
by dfawcus 8mo ago
It is London - hardly surprising.
Nothing will improve as long as Khan is Mayor, and may not even if he is replaced.
Anyway, MI6 (SIS) is the overseas spies, MI5 is the domestic spy agency.
- walletdrainer 8mo agoYes, it totally makes sense to blame Khan for what foreign intelligence services are doing in London. This is completely reasonable.
- dfawcus 8mo agoSomeone being beaten up on the streets is domestic policing issue. That the perpetrators may turn out to be foreign agents is neither here nor there, only if they were diplomatic staff would it not be a domestic policing issue. However the UK police have largely withdrawn from certain areas, and this would simply be another symptom. High Court action suggests there was a civil case pursuing the perpetrators (or their principals), rather than a criminal case. With a properly functioning police system, that should not be necessary. Kahn is the PCC for London, he sets their priorities.
- walletdrainer 8mo agoDoesn’t matter if it’s people being poisoned with polonium or getting beaten up, preventing the activities of foreign intelligence services is generally not the job of the PCC. It is the job of the British intelligence services to blow someone up in Riyadh to deter these activities.
- hasperdi 8mo agoSay you were the Mayor of London, and being a great mayor you have your priorities 100% correct. Can you guarantee that something like this will never happen on your watch?
- tim333 8mo agoLondon just had the lowest annual murders for 11 years. >Homicide rate now 1.1 per 100,000 people, lower than any other UK city and major global cities including New York (2.8), Berlin (3.2) and Toronto (1.6) I guess you'll praise Khan, as PCC, for that?
- zaphirplane 8mo agoNot within a mayor’s control