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Sadiq Khan elected London mayor for third term to angry reaction | The Liberty Beacon

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ER Editor: Local council elections took place this past Thursday in the UK. Which means mayoral seats were up for grabs. Of interest here is London, which Sadiq Khan took for an historic third time. We have no idea here about the honesty or otherwise of these elections. And whether it’s Labour or the Conservatives, we know pretty much by now that it’s all a Uniparty, with both sides serving the same masters.

Politico.eu ran this yesterday —

Sadiq Khan bags record third term as London mayor

Twitter reaction to Khan getting in again have been sharply and deservedly critical —

SHE GETS IT …

A MUST-WATCH!

Call us crazy conspirators but some images of Khan going around look a bit off to us. We know well by now that many of our ‘leaders’ have doubles, etc. AND there seems to have been a long delay in getting to the count. Caroline Coram on her substack has this —

Many of us found it odd that that this last London Mayoral Election vote count was on a Saturday. Starting 36 hours after the end of polling.

Shouts of conspiracy theorist and a stream of abuse from the left wings flooded in on my comment on Adam Brooke’s thread here. ‘It’s always on a Saturday you Loon, tin foil hatter, conspiracy etc’. Someone even had the gall to call me an old woman. Begone with you I say!

I hadn’t checked all the other Mayoral elections at that point, so reasoned with them on the basis that no other election is given its own special and very separate counting day.

This is how that attempt went:

‘I am getting a battering for asking why London mayoral elections are counted 36 hours later than any other election.

One poster said it was because they didn’t want to clash with a General Election.

My response went something like: Often local and national elections are held at the same time and even police commissioner elections. So what exactly is the problem with adding one more piece of paper and counting them all at the same time?

I think everyone will agree that holding ballot boxes for 36 hours in a building somewhere, whether it has always been done this way in the Mayoral elections or not, is only going to increase questions as to legitimacy of the result.

Nobody has any idea who was guarding them, whether there was 24/7 monitoring, who transported them from the polling stations to the site etc.

Some of these questions should be asked for ALL elections. …

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Sadiq Khan elected London mayor for third term in further boost for Labour

Labour incumbent beat Tory candidate Susan Hall, despite inaccurate claims by ‘excited Tories’ that she could win

THE GUARDIAN

Sadiq Khan has been elected mayor of London, winning a historic third term in a dramatic contest.

Khan secured victory over the Conservative candidate, Susan Hall, on Saturday afternoon, with 61.2% of the vote.

The London mayor had described the battle as a “close two-horse race” when polls predicted he had a 25-point lead over his Tory rival, in what appeared to be an effort to encourage Labour loyalists and more apathetic Londoners to vote.

According to London Elects, which manages the mayoral and London assembly elections, voter turnout was only 1.5% down from 2021, at 40.5%. Bexley and Bromley, led by the Conservatives, had the highest constituency turnout with 48%.

Khan’s team became confident of winning the race after Labour took the North East and West Central constituencies from the Conservatives.

On Saturday morning, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, had said he was confident of Khan’s victory and described the mayoral race as “effectively the last stop on the journey to the general election”.

Speaking in Mansfield, in the East Midlands region that has selected the Labour candidate as its first mayor, Starmer said: “He [Khan] has got two terms of delivery behind him and I am confident that he has got another term of delivery in front of him.

“But look, if you look across the country, I am standing here in Mansfield in the East Midlands where we have won a significant victory in the mayoralty here, but that is the pattern across the country.”

The victory in London followed a tense Friday night, described by Labour sources as a “24-hour vacuum” because a pause on London mayoral counts had enabled “excited” Tory activists to fill social media with rumours of polling predictions being “completely wrong” and Hall posing a much greater threat. It led some Labour insiders to believe the possibility that the candidates could be a few points apart.

This mayoral election was the first held under changes to the voting system that were introduced by the Conservatives. It had been made into a first-past-the-post contest with photo ID required at polling stations, measures that had been expected to harm Labour’s vote.

Aides working for Khan had argued a Labour victory would be heavily reliant on turnout.

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