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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not what that line means at all?

[–] julietOscarEcho 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah way too literal to be emtertaining. I guess if your reaction to the mayoral campaign is disaffected "both sides" BS (though no well informed person holds that view) then it would work shrugs. I'm sure as shit not reading the article because if their headline writing is that lazy I doubt there's anything of value beyond it.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


It wasn’t a top campaign issue but it’s an audacious goal considering the waterway was declared biologically dead not long before his birth in the city in 1970 and flows as an open sewer of sorts when heavy rains overwhelm London’s ancient plumbing system.

In 2016, he became the first Muslim leader of a major Western capital city, overcoming an opponent whose mayoral campaign was “at least somewhat Islamophobic,” said Patrick Diamond, a public policy professor at Queen Mary University of London.

His time in office has been overshadowed by crises: first the U.K.'s break from the European Union that weakened London’s thriving financial services industry, and then the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a cost-of-living crisis.

He has touted measures he put in place such as freezing rail and bus fares and providing free meals for all primary school pupils among his biggest achievements.

In the outer suburbs, Khan has come under fire for expanding the city’s Ultra Low Emission Zone that fines drivers of more-polluting older cars 12.50 pounds (about $16) a day.

Although the policy was introduced in central London by his predecessor, Boris Johnson in 2015, it has widely been attributed to Khan because of its unpopular expansion, though it only applies to a small fraction of vehicles.


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