It's not sarcasm. I stand by every word, and I'd vote for him again. The awkward truth is that Londoners have elected Sadiq Khan three times. You don't have to like him, but that's democracy. The people who actually live in London have repeatedly judged him the better option. What always amuses me is the selective outrage. Some of you endlessly obsess over every knife crime headline from thousands of miles away while happily living in countries where the annual carnage on the roads dwarfs anything you'd tolerate in Britain. Somehow that barely warrants a mention, but one incident in London becomes proof that the city has collapsed. It's a remarkably convenient double standard. Perhaps that's because democracy, accountability, and the rule of law are easier to sneer at from countries where those things are considerably weaker. Cheap living has its attractions, but pretending it comes with no trade-offs is simply self-deception. You wanted cheap. You got cheap. The rest of us will stick with living in a country where governments can be voted out, courts remain independent, and criticism of those in power doesn't depend on staying in their good books.
