Posted on 05/01/2016 12:20:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
LONDON (Reuters) - Sadiq Khan of opposition Labour Party is the strong favourite to win London's mayoral election on Thursday after a contest marked by religious tensions and accusations of racism.
Polls show Khan, the son of a bus driver, is as much as 20 percentage points ahead of rival Conservative Zac Goldsmith in the race to run one of the world's top financial centres. If he wins, he will succeed current Conservative mayor Boris Johnson to become the first Muslim to head a major Western capital.
London's population of 8.6 million is among the most diverse in the world and it is rare for identity politics to enter British campaigning.
But Goldsmith, with the support of Prime Minister David Cameron, has for weeks focused on Khan's faith and past appearances alongside radical Muslim speakers, accusing him of giving "platform, oxygen and cover" to extremists.
Former human rights lawyer Khan says he has fought extremism all his life and regrets sharing a stage with speakers who held "abhorrent" views.
He has accused Goldsmith, the elite-educated son of a billionaire financier, of using Donald Trump-style tactics to divide Londoners along faith lines, as well as being part of an out-of-touch wealthy elite.
"There's a chance that there are people who are almost subconsciously put off (voting for Khan) by the dog-whistle racism ... people who wouldn't like to say 'I'm not going to vote for Sadiq Khan', but will have a wobble at the ballot box," said Anthony Wells, director of political and social opinion polling at YouGov.
The impact was unlikely to be enough to allow Goldsmith to pull off a surprise victory, he said.
"The only effect of the Zac Goldsmith campaigning is probably just to entrench all those long-standing issues the Conservative Party have got with appealing to......
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Fools are giving up their country.
Islam does not tolerate diversity.
The transformation is almost complete now.
What RACE is islam?
[ Islam does not tolerate diversity. ]
WRONG! ISLAM EMBRACES DIVERSITY, the more we embrace Islam “Da-verse” it gets.
Islam encourages diversity as long as the only diverse thing embraced IS ISLAM...
New name for the island...Britainistan.....
What RACE is islam?
Apparently ISLAM, despite the fact that Arab islamists are racist against Black Mooslimbs, and Asian Mooselimbs, etc... and vice-verse et al, and so forth...
I never thought I would long enough to see this day, yet here I am. This country is next.
UK is committing suicide
their children will either be slaves or be murdered by the Islamic invaders
and O is doing same thing to USA right now as we converse
and the new Canadian govt is doing same
what to see our future? look at the videos from Syria and Iraq and Libya and Iran and Somalia
O has been the most effective Preisident in American history
pray for America! (and UK, and Europe)
It appears as though our “cousins across the pond” have surrendered to the Muzzies. It was nice knowin’ ya, old chaps! You should have held on to your guns.
“David Cameron, has for weeks focused on Khan’s faith “
I guess you could call Islam a “faith.” But, if one wants to be accurate, Islam is a socioeconomic and political system disguised as a religion.
Imho of course.
5.56mm
London is Falling.
Name any govt position in any muslim cou try held by a non-muslim.
There are zero. Theg do not allow by their laws non muslims in ruling positions over muslims.
Yet we are painted by our libtard pols as racists.
Time to clean out the g-damn house of all of them.
The sun has set on the British empire. Nothing but the crescent moon will shine after this.
The Nazis tried it with bombs, islam does it with STUPID voters....PATHETIC!!!
There is a reason for all this.
The secular reason is that the totalitarian global elites want to reduce the Earth’s population to a “sustainable” number, whatever that is.
They want to cause another war. What war can more efficiently eliminate people but a war among those living in close proximity to one another? “Civil” wars are always the most destructive to the population.
And, as a two-fer, what better way to reduce population than to inject massive hordes of violent, hate-foaming, disease ridden vermin into the population?
See Revelation 13 for the bigger picture and the spiritual reasons for this chaos.
The ‘civil’ war O started in Syria... has cost about 500,000 lives (and about 3 million people have left the country), according to reports
and O has wars underway also in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Libya
etc.
once he brings enough of them into USA, they will start ‘civil’ wars (terrorist gang street attacks, from Sea to Shining Sea) here... and UK is ahead of USA in this timetable, as is Germany and Belgium and Italy and...
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