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Last evening on the best way dwelling from the pub, an in depth good friend of mine dedicated the mortal sin of strolling by way of a London park alone along with his telephone out.

Some scumbag snatched his telephone and the harmless sufferer of this crime referred to it as an costly lesson discovered. This kind of behaviour is fairly customary within the capital, a lot in order that I warn my dad and mom to not take their telephones out in central London even within the daytime.

It does not even happen to folks to name the police about such issues, it is simply an accepted reality of residing in what’s descending right into a hellhole.

So it is good to see that whereas thugs and thieves are getting away with their minor assaults on civilisation our Mayor of London is as soon as once more prioritising slagging off Donald Trump.

Sadiq Khan claims that the US President Elect has singled him out for criticism up to now and that he wouldn’t have executed so if he had a distinct pores and skin color.

Calling him “sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist”, he added: “It’s personal, let’s be frank. If I wasn’t this colour, if I wasn’t a practising Muslim, he wouldn’t have come for me.

“He wasn’t criticising me because I’m five foot six. He was coming for me because of – let’s be frank – my ethnicity and my religion, so it’s incredibly personal to me.”

Has it escaped Mr Khan that The Donald has simply appointed Vivek Ramaswamy, who additionally has south Asian heritage, to move up the Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk?

Of course, the chief of the free world may nonetheless do that and have drawback along with his appointee’s pores and skin color, however as there is no such thing as a proof of this of which I’m conscious, I’m inclined to not put money into such a perception.

It could possibly be that Trump has an issue with Khan being a practising Muslim. But would not he have mentioned so if that was the case? This is a person who was brazen sufficient to run on a platform that included a complete ban on Muslims getting into the US.

Instead, The Donald has mined the pits of the Trump lexicon to whip out a infantile gem, referring to Khan as a “stone-cold loser”.

I’ve written beforehand that I think Trump could be thin-skinned and my hunch is that his remarks about Khan are pushed by his petty fury at a Donald Trump child blimp being accredited for flight throughout his London go to.

But, reasonably than trying to see into Trump’s thoughts and dissect his doable prejudices, I’d a lot reasonably Sadiq Khan repair the damaged metropolis a few of us name dwelling.