In 1977, the brilliant American singer-songwriter Randy Newman released a single entitled ‘Short People’, which still makes me laugh.
I’m sure the ‘progressives’ at the BBC and other radio stations have put this tune firmly on their barred lists, and I’m fairly certain that a vertically challenged person of a delicate disposition will be offended by this article and will report me to the police, but hey, what the heck, let’s see if Sir Keir Starmer’s often repeated claim that we have free speech in the UK rings true shall we?
Before any gormless and poorly led police officers are tasked to knock on my front door, let me point out to them that I have a couple of mates that I tower over. Phil and Trev, please stand by to appear as witnesses for my defence.
The first verse of Mr Newman’s very funny song goes like this:
‘They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
The Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, is 5’4”. Now that’s short for a man. Starmer recently described Khan to Donald Trump as his ‘friend’.
This week, the most powerful man on Earth vented to the United Nations General Assembly about his dislike of Khan, who was elected Mayor of London in May 2016.
Sadiq Khan has some brass neck hurling insults at Donald Trump while rape offences skyrocket - Peter Bleksley
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I live in a London suburb, and I travel into the centre of our capital city on most days. Regrettably, under Khan’s stewardship, I’ve witnessed an increase in graffiti, litter, homelessness, phone theft, the fear of crime, the harassment and worse of women on our transport systems and streets, and a week never passes without me meeting yet another victim of crime.
Often, when I ask them whether they reported this crime to the police, I’m greeted with the answer, ‘What’s the point?’
In his role as Mayor, Khan is also the Police and Crime Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, an organisation in such a state of flux that if it were a dog, it would have been put out of its misery a long time ago.
Safe to say, I’m firmly with the Donald when it comes to my opinion of Khan.
In response to Trump’s criticism of him this week, Khan initially said that he had, ‘more important things to worry about’, and given the dreadful state of London I’d agree with him, but he didn’t retain this standpoint for very long, because some 24 hours later, Khan characteristically threw a hissy fit and described Trump as, “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic”.
‘Short People’ also includes the lyrics;
‘They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep’
Uncanny, isn’t it?
Unfortunately, London Mayoral elections are not scheduled until 2028, so Khan will probably continue to preside over the tumbling quality of life that those of us who live in our capital city have to suffer for some time to come.
With knife crime up, shoplifting at record levels, and more rapes than ever being recorded on his watch, the outlook is grim.
But as long as Khan has friends in The Labour Party like the revolting and aspiring deputy leader Lucy Powell MP, who this week took to social media to spout, ‘I’m really proud of our Mayor of London Sadiq Khan - what he represents, what he has achieved and his values’, then he will be protected, supported, and who knows, maybe even persuaded to run for leader of The Labour Party, and therefore a potential future Prime Minister.
If you think Starmer is a disaster, which he is, perish the thought of the repulsive Khan with the keys to number 10.
London and the UK need real, drastic and tangible change, not the hollow promises and disheartening decline that Starmer and Khan have brought us.
Are there politicians and a party out there that could reverse all of this and deliver what is so desperately needed? Time will tell…