The Ruthsayer
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Agreed. That’s not the Washington D C I know.
Edit: sorry Speckyget, just see your post.
The Tories Latest Social Media Stunt
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Edit: sorry Speckyget, just see your post.
brattleboro
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this is how desperate the tories have became,almost a laughing stock
BoroLioness
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Wow is this for real???
Juninhoburger
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Scrote
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Are you sure it wasn't just a one-way system?
Brian Marwood
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San Francisco at number 13 surprises me but only because I was reading an article recently in which it stated crime had got so badly out of hand that you are now, statistically speaking, twice as safe in Compton LA.
BoroMart
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D.C. is very safe as long as you stick to certain areas, but that’s repeated the world over
speckyget
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No doubt. But I've never been anywhere else with such a demarcation between the safe and not safe. On another occasion I'd just passed a guy on the street, and when I got to the next intersection he starts yelling at me to turn rather than go straight on. Nothing obviously threatening, but he was creating like I was wandering off into a lion sanctuary.
r00fie1
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They lie, and they lie, and they lie, and they lie, and they lie.......
Image source, Getty Images
Image caption,
Susan Hall's campaign said the video came from the central Conservative Party
James W Kelly
BBC News
The clip, posted on the party's X (formerly Twitter) account, attacked London's incumbent Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, and used footage of a stampede in a New York subway station, which Mr Khan criticised as "quite staggering".
The advert, in support of Susan Hall, was quickly removed and replaced with a video where the New York scenes had been cut.
Ms Hall told the BBC the video had "nothing to do" with her mayoral campaign team and that she had not watched either version. A spokesperson for Ms Hall said the video had been created by Conservative Party headquarters.
The Conservative Party's head office declined to comment.
Image source, Conservative Party
Image caption,
The video about London contained a clip of crowds in a New York subway station
Ms Hall is running against Mr Khan - and other candidates - in the London mayoral election on 2 May.
In the original black-and-white video, the scenes of a stampede at New York's Penn Station in 2017 were overlaid with a US-accented narrator making alleged claims, including: "A 54% increase in knife crime since the Labour mayor seized power has the metropolis teetering on the brink of chaos.
"And in the chaos, people seek a desperate reprieve."
Responding to the video's claim that crime in the capital had risen during his time in office, Mr Khan said: "Because of government cuts over the last 14 years, we've lost thousands of [police] officers."
The mayor added that crime had fallen in a number of categories, including homicides, gun crime and burglaries, since he first took office in 2016.
The video also warned of "squads of Ulez [Ultra Low Emission Zone] enforcers dressed in black, faces covered with masks, terrorising communities at the beck and call of their Labour mayor master, who has implemented a tax on driving, forcing people to stay inside or go underground".
The Ulez is primarily enforced with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras on roads across the capital, which record non-compliant vehicles, but Transport for London (TfL) does also use some staff members in camera vans.
"It's another example of my fear materialising, which is this election, from the Conservative Party, will be one where there's misinformation, where there are lies and, in this case, clearly videos that weren't of this city, it was New York," he said.
Ms Hall distanced herself from the video, telling BBC News she had not seen the first version, with the New York clip, or the reuploaded version.
Asked about the claims made and messaging in the video, she said: "I'm out listening to Londoners and all they are telling me is that they are concerned about the violence on our streets."
With additional reporting by PA Media.
Conservative's mayoral contest ad showed New York not London
The clip showed a stampede in a New York subway station and was replaced with the scenes cut.
www.bbc.co.uk
Tory's mayoral contest ad showed New York not London
Image caption,
Susan Hall's campaign said the video came from the central Conservative Party
James W Kelly
BBC News
- Published
26 March 2024, 12:11 GMT
- Published
- Updated 39 minutes ago
The clip, posted on the party's X (formerly Twitter) account, attacked London's incumbent Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, and used footage of a stampede in a New York subway station, which Mr Khan criticised as "quite staggering".
The advert, in support of Susan Hall, was quickly removed and replaced with a video where the New York scenes had been cut.
Ms Hall told the BBC the video had "nothing to do" with her mayoral campaign team and that she had not watched either version. A spokesperson for Ms Hall said the video had been created by Conservative Party headquarters.
The Conservative Party's head office declined to comment.
Image caption,
The video about London contained a clip of crowds in a New York subway station
Ms Hall is running against Mr Khan - and other candidates - in the London mayoral election on 2 May.
In the original black-and-white video, the scenes of a stampede at New York's Penn Station in 2017 were overlaid with a US-accented narrator making alleged claims, including: "A 54% increase in knife crime since the Labour mayor seized power has the metropolis teetering on the brink of chaos.
"And in the chaos, people seek a desperate reprieve."
Responding to the video's claim that crime in the capital had risen during his time in office, Mr Khan said: "Because of government cuts over the last 14 years, we've lost thousands of [police] officers."
The mayor added that crime had fallen in a number of categories, including homicides, gun crime and burglaries, since he first took office in 2016.
The video also warned of "squads of Ulez [Ultra Low Emission Zone] enforcers dressed in black, faces covered with masks, terrorising communities at the beck and call of their Labour mayor master, who has implemented a tax on driving, forcing people to stay inside or go underground".
The Ulez is primarily enforced with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras on roads across the capital, which record non-compliant vehicles, but Transport for London (TfL) does also use some staff members in camera vans.
'Misinformation'
Mr Khan said the Conservatives were being "unpatriotic" for "doing our city down"."It's another example of my fear materialising, which is this election, from the Conservative Party, will be one where there's misinformation, where there are lies and, in this case, clearly videos that weren't of this city, it was New York," he said.
Ms Hall distanced herself from the video, telling BBC News she had not seen the first version, with the New York clip, or the reuploaded version.
Asked about the claims made and messaging in the video, she said: "I'm out listening to Londoners and all they are telling me is that they are concerned about the violence on our streets."
With additional reporting by PA Media.
Duffman
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I got this lovely letter delivered by my postman yesterday. Appears to be from Stockton Borough Council given the address at the top and in Labour colours but the tiny print at the bottom shows it’s actually the Tories putting it out to try and undermine the Labour Party. They have no morals whatsoever
gregorgregorovich
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They've been pulling that trick for a while now.
FishofContemplation
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Learnt something from their mates in the 2010-2015 government then. They’ve been doing stuff like that in their leaflets for decades.
ThePrisoner
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HarryVegas
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Me and Mrs V just caught up with this. I really shouldn't laugh at such stuff but it's proof positive that sheer desperation can be funny.
ThePrisoner
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Juninhoburger
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This is great!