By Ben Kerrigan-
London Mayor , Sadiq Khan and U.S president Donald Trump need to stop their uninspiring public spat.It is bad and unprofessional of both men as highly placed politicians to be continuously engaged in public criticism against each other . Khan and Trump have had a long running feud ever since the U.S president expressed a desire to implement tough laws preventing Muslims from seven countries entering America. Somebody needs to intervene and tell these politicians to stop getting personal with each other.
President Trump really should refrain from commenting on knife crime in the Uk whilst gun crime has forever been out of control in America. The level of crazy homicides in America is worse than a fiction movie. Neither Trump nor the governor of any of his crime ridden States would happily take the blame for horrifying levels of crimes in America, so it would be advisable for Trump to focus on America and leave British politicians to face their own issues. Khan’s response to Trump’s angle on Muslims was expected since the London Mayor himself is a Muslim.
He had to be a voice on behalf of his Muslim brothers and sisters when America’s most powerful man announced controversial plans against Muslims. Trump’s radical stance against Muslims from countries he feared posed a danger to the U.S received cheers among his supporters, but not his critics.
The U.S president at the time said he was more concerned about preventing terrorism, but received a lot of criticism for his position. Among his sternest critics has been Sadiq Khan, who criticised the American president for his stance on Muslims, and has continued to attack the president in retaliation for comments and actions made by Trump against him.
Khan recently referred to Trump as a poster boy for racists, stating that it became as soon as “noteworthy” that a president would retweet “a some distance-excellent activist”
London Mayor: Sadiq Khan
The London Mayor’s comments after the US President hit out at him over London’s knife crime. Mr Trump retweeted a post from commentator Katie Hopkins, who blamed the violence on “Khan’s Londonistan”. Hopkin’s criticism came after four teenagers were killed in a spate of shootings and stabbings in London in the past three days.
Commentator: Katie Hopkins
Speaking in central London on Monday, Mr Khan said: “It is noteworthy that potentialities are you’ll perchance got the president of the US amplifying the tweets of a some distance-excellent activist, amplifying a racist tweet.
“That is one of my issues about Donald Trump – he’s now seen as a poster boy for racists around the sphere, whether or no longer you’re a racist in this country, whether or no longer you’re a racist in Hungary, a racist in Italy, or a racist in France.”
The distinctive post by Ms Hopkins known as the capital “Stab-City”, alongside screenshots of BBC News articles detailing the violence.
But a spread of of us pointed out the famous greater murder rates in US cities.
Mr Hunt said Mr Trump had his “like style”, nonetheless he backed the president’s stance on Mr Khan.
“Now we safe a Mayor of London who has fully did no longer contend with knife crime and has spent more time on politics than the notify trade of creating Londoners safer and in that I 150% accept as true with the president,” he said whereas attending a Conservative management hustings tournament.
But Mr Khan said: “We have had four days and four homicides in London, we safe seen at some stage in the last 5 years an abolish better in violent crime all over our country and or no longer it is no longer acceptable.
“That is belief to be one of many rationalization why City Hall, even supposing there might perchance be been wide cuts from central executive, safe persisted to make investments in our police.”
He added: “There are a quantity of factual leaders in The United States going thru wide increases in violent crime.
“They’ve my toughen to abolish sure we learn lessons from each quite loads of and that we work collectively to grapple the problem of violent crime taking space in loads of cities everywhere in the Western world.”