M&S Turns on Sadiq Khan With Warning That “Routine” Lawlessness is Putting Public at Risk
Marks & Spencer has turned on Sadiq Khan, hitting out at the London Mayor for failing to get a grip on crime and warning that “routine” lawlessness is putting the public at risk. The Telegraph has more.
In its most significant intervention on the issue to date, the retailer urged the Mayor of London to “prioritise effective policing” as “more brazen, more organised and more aggressive” attacks ramp up across Britain’s high streets every day.
Shopkeepers are bracing for what is feared will be a weekend of chaos. Mobs of youths have run riot this week in London, including invading a Marks & Spencer shop in Clapham.
It has fuelled fears of growing lawlessness and prompted a warning from the Metropolitan Police to parents and teenagers before the bank holiday weekend.
Thinus Keeve, Marks & Spencer’s Retail Director, said staff had been headbutted and taken to hospital following an ammonia attack in the last week as he urged Labour to do more to tackle shoplifting and crime.
Marks & Spencer executives have written to both Sir Sadiq and Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, demanding they do more to address the problem. Keeve said attacks were becoming “more routine”.
Despite the disorder, Sir Sadiq dismissed claims of London being unsafe as “lies” this week.
Marks & Spencer urged the Mayor and the Home Secretary to come clean on “the true scale and impact” of shoplifting, calling for more transparency around crime statistics.
Writing in the Telegraph, Keeve said: “I keep hearing crime is falling, especially in London – something none of us believes, and very few people working in retail would see.
“Without a Government seriously cracking down on crime and a Mayor that prioritises effective policing, we are powerless.”
Large groups of teenagers ran riot in the streets and in shops this week, forcing retailers to barricade their doors.
Footage emerged of almost 100 teenagers storming shops, including a Marks & Spencer branch on Clapham High Street, last Saturday. On Tuesday, dozens of balaclava-clad youths were seen lighting fires in south London.
Keeve said incidents were “not isolated”. “It is systemic, and it is getting worse, not better,” he added.
He said: “We need a stronger, faster and more consistent police response, using tools that already exist to target repeat offenders and crime hotspots.”
Marks & Spencer’s call for the Mayor of London and the Home Secretary to act marks the biggest intervention to date by supermarkets.
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Literally all the footage I’ve seen of these mobs of chav kids running amok in London recently have shown that they’re all black. Then the papers print pictures of them and they pixelate all the black faces and show one white kid clearly in the foreground. Totally ridiculous. But, as with everything involving unruly, antisocial behaviour of kids, one has to ask: where’s the parents? I don’t fully agree with Pete North here, he’s more hardcore than me, but this is his stance on the issue; ”Much of the British right has a tendency to fixate on creeping Islamisation and sectarianism. While that is a major problem, less is said of our other major problem with immigration. Feral blacks. There’s been a spate of them looting in broad daylight just recently. Most can barely string a sentence together and couldn’t even perform basic menial labour. The problem with hordes of feral black kids is they grow up to be economically and socially useless adults who breed more of the same. We’re creating an unpoliceable underclass who will end up informally segregated because nobody sane wants to live within 20 miles of them. This is how we lose our cities. You… Read more »
And when it comes to that useless, corrupt and duplicitous little sod Khan, I think this sums him up very well: Taqiyya Khan;
https://x.com/ThePosieParker/status/2039727653893165413
Spot on
What I see is that for at least the last 40 years there has been a shift away from broadly accepted notions of right and wrong that applied to everyone equally towards moral relativism that makes excuses for bad behaviour.
To your typical do-gooder collectivist, bad behaviour is never really the miscreant’s fault, but rather the result of social and cultural circumstances. Not surprising this has invited bad behaviour by the excused classes.
How prevalent this notion has become is just another example of the triumph of mediocrity over value. The mediocre – who tend to be collectivists because they don’t fancy their chances of going very far on the basis of their own ability – love to tear down objective standards, the achievement of others, anything that has objective value. They want to blur all the lines of what is objectively good and bad so that their mediocrity can’t be exposed and they can prevail and flourish.
Unfortunately, the mediocre have the upper hand. They certainly have the numbers.
How we reestablish a society that stands up for excellence, real achievement and objetive notions of value isn’t entirely clear to me. I don’t see the path.
“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.”
Thomas Sowell.
Except when it comes to the looting of the individual by the state.
In that respect, the state is quite happy to maintain a link of direct responsibility. But only with the productive people in society – those that have something to loot.
When it comes to the unproductive, Sowell’s observation holds. We are all responsible for the refusal or inability of the unproductive to contribute to the point where we have to sustain them.
Agreed.
The problem is that mediocrity has the largest percentage, understandably and so it swamps those of us who see merit in a society organised around excellence and ability. That is now never going to change.
Thanks for the link Mogs. I cannot fault the logic.
Yes, the “enrichment” went on the rampage.
Good post. None of this would be happening under President Trump. Look at Washington
Not only do the LEFT insist they can socially engineer all crime away, they want to engineer who is actually committing those crimes. —–Got to keep up the “Diversity is our strength” fantasy haven’t they?
Flogging.
It’s all part and parcel…
Whilst I appreciate the top brass at M & S for speaking out I believe they are very much victims of their own wokeness and so my sympathy is duly diluted.
You have a point. —-But do we really expect shop assistants to tackle the scum and risk injury? It is the justice system that is mainly to blame by starting off with that nonsense whereby you are virtually allowed to steal up to 200 quids worth of stuff and not be prosecuted.
Once again, I ask: Where were the TSG when we needed them the most? Obviously a normal deployment of ordinary police officers to the scene is not up to the task of quelling this horde of marauding buffoons. Where were the rows of helmeted and shielded riot police wielding batons to tackle what was clearly a RIOT, with looting, violence and intimidation of innocent people?
The TSG are in training prior to the Patriot gathering in May. Allegedly all those attending are Fffaaarrrr Right.
Sir Sadiq?….shoot me now 🙄🔫
Get them all stuck in a proper borstal/boot camp, and stop making excuses for them, they are feral thugs, fine the parents wether working or on benefits, costs us all in the end, the biggest factor was stopping brats being disciplined.
The very fabric of society is being destroyed by LEFTISTS and their insistence that punishment and discipline are dirty worlds. —-But it is not just in London that we have these epidemics. In my small town of 40,000 people in East Central Scotland a Sainsbury Shop Assistant was almost crying telling us how the shoplifters just waltz in, take whatever they want and leave, often laughing in the faces of the the shop workers, and even the Security Guard is not allowed to do anything about it. —–This is a diabolical disgrace.
Is one permitted to ask a poignant question? Is there any particular predominant ethnicity amongst the rioters?