'Sadiq Khan is unfit to be mayor and since he took power we have seen a crime explosion,' says Alex Armstrong

Donald Trump said that we have “no-go Sharia law zones” in London, while we can’t say that’s entirely accurate, there is some truth in what he’s saying.

Backroom councils, which rule on Muslim marriages, have surged in London. In fact, a report by the London Standard suggests there are at least five in the capital.

Recently, it was even suggested in the press that they are now operating so widely in Britain that London could become the “Sharia capital of the West”.

And when it comes to no-go zones, well, you can make your minds up.

Trump also calls Khan “a nasty man”. I don’t personally know the Mayor very well, so I can’t support that statement.

It’s important to note, because the Left will scream and cry outrage over Trump’s comments. that it was Sadiq Khan who started the beef with the President in the first place.

On December 10, 2015, after Trump’s campaign pledged to ban some Muslim-majority countries from travel and visas to the US following the terrorist attack in Paris, Sadiq Khan called the ban “outrageous” while campaigning to be Mayor of London.

He then told the BBC he hoped Trump “loses badly”. So it wasn’t the President who started this, was it?

In fact, even after all of Khan’s comments interfering in Trump’s election, the magnanimous President on May 10, after Khan was elected — suggested Khan would be exempt from the proposed travel ban and even said the election of Sadiq Khan was “a good thing”. So he wasn’t holding any grudges then, was he?

But just days later, Khan slammed Trump again, calling his views “ignorant” and claiming Trump was “inadvertently playing into the hands of extremists”. He went on to say he hoped Hillary Clinton would win.

So after all that, Trump decided it wasn’t worth being friendly with Sadiq Khan. He challenged him to an IQ test, saying: “I will remember those statements. They are very nasty statements.”

A year later, after the terror attacks at Borough Market and London Bridge, Trump suggested in a tweet that Khan had said there was “no reason to be alarmed”, because Khan had told the public not to be alarmed by the increased police presence on London’s streets. I wonder who you think was right about that one.

One month later, Khan called on the Government to cancel Trump’s state visit to the UK. And then, bizarrely, in 2017 he told The Guardian he was a “reluctant participant” in the ongoing row with Trump.

Of course, weeks later, he then gave permission for that massive, insulting Trump blimp to be flown over London during Trump’s first state visit. So much for not being like schoolchildren, Sadiq.

The Mayor is apparently confused as to why there’s beef with Trump, despite the fact that his own comments about American foreign and domestic policy started the feud in the first place.

Even after the President offered an olive branch, Khan continued to attack him. This is where the beef started, Mr Khan. You seem to suffer from short-term memory loss.

And let’s not forget Khan’s comments in 2019, when he said Trump’s rallies were comparable to “the fascists of the 20th century”. Really? Come on.

Can anyone blame the President of the United States for his feelings toward Sadiq Khan? Not only were Trump’s comments in the world exclusive interview with Bev Turner mostly absolutely spot on about London but the Mayor himself started the feud and kept fanning the flames, even when the President extended goodwill.

Sadiq Khan is not fit to lead our city, a city that has become a crime-statistic explosion since his election.

A city that has seen more strikes under his watch than under any other Mayor in history; a city that sees a rape every hour; where knife crime is soaring; and where high streets now need warnings about “mind the grab” because of roaming smartphone-snatching gangs.

Trump is rarely wrong and I don’t think he was wrong last night