London Mayor Sadiq Khan has accused the Tory government of creating the knife crime epidemic in the capital through its austerity policies, citing new analysis that shows a link between poverty and violence on the streets.
Responding to criticism he is politicizing the issue, Khan told an audience at a youth club in Bermondsey, south London on Monday that “the numbers don’t lie” – the correlation between social inequality and violent crime is “unarguable.”
The sad reality is the violence we’re seeing on our streets today is an appalling side-effect of increasing inequality and alienation caused by years of government austerity and neglect. Aol.Funny how he does not mention the absence of all discipline and pathetic court sentencing, innit?Funny how the phenomenal poverty of the 20s and 30s did not have these effects, innit?Funny how he ignores the new population make up of ghettos - and millions of unintegrated migrants from alien cultures, innit? (But, at least, it's diverse.)
Funny how he fails to mention the broken families which leftist policies have (deliberately?) created, innit?
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