Oasis legend Noel Gallagher has launched a blistering assault on Sadiq Khan over his failure to deal with knife crime in London.
The 56-year-old blasted Mr Khan in a foul-mouthed rant after it emerged final week that greater than 1,000 individuals have been killed within the capital since he turned Mayor of London.
Police estimates present 1,008 homicides have been recorded since Mr Khan was first elected – leaving round 130 households ripped aside yearly of his tenure.
Manchester-born Gallagher – who purchased a home in west London after splitting from his spouse final yr – fumed on Matt Morgan’s Patreon podcast: ‘That little weasel-faced c*** of a Mayor who runs this city — I f***ing hate him.’
Referencing schoolboy Harry Pitman, who was tragically murdered on December 31, the singer added: ‘You know that child who bought stabbed on Primrose Hill on New Year’s Eve?
‘I heard that on the radio and one of many reporters was saying knife crime has gone down everywhere in the nation besides London.
Oasis legend Noel Gallagher launched a foul-mouthed assault on Sadiq Khan in a blistering assault on the Mayor of London ‘s failure to deal with knife crime within the capital
The 56-year-old blasted Mr Khan in a foul-mouthed rant after it emerged final week that greater than 1,000 individuals have been killed within the capital since he turned Mayor of London
‘So what do it’s a must to say about that, you little weasel-faced c***?
‘How does he preserve getting voted in?
‘God, I f**king hate him.
‘You know he requested me for an image as soon as, the little c***? I instructed him to go f**okay himself.’
Gallagher additionally went on to assault rail employees who’ve been heaping distress on Brits by often placing.
He mentioned: ‘Travelling up and all the way down to Manchester on the prepare is a f**king nightmare.
‘They simply cancel it, on a f***ing whim.
‘And they’re all the time on strike as a result of they don’t seem to be f**king getting paid sufficient.
‘How are they not being run by the f***ing authorities?’
A spokesman for Mr Khan instructed The Sun that funding for policing and youth providers had been slashed within the final decade – and claimed that the variety of younger individuals being injured by knifes had dropped since 2016.
Harry Pitman, 16, was fatally stabbed in north-west London on New Year’s Eve
Tafari Thompson-Mintah, 16, was using his moped on Sevenoaks Way in St Paul’s Cray, Orpington, when he was concerned in a collision in October
Rahaan Ahmed Amin, 16, was discovered wounded in West Ham Park, Forest Gate, and later died in July final yr
They added: ‘It’s clear that violent crime stays far too excessive and there is far more to do.’
Yet it comes because the mayor is refusing to provide the Met Police with £70million in funds for its essential ‘New Met For London’ reforms, regardless of providing a bumper £30million pay deal to unions to avert crippling Tube strikes.
The information sparked accusations that Mr Khan had solely made the scenario worse whereas within the job – though his workplace claimed that murder ranges had fallen to their lowest since 2014.
Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall mentioned: ‘I’m deeply saddened to listen to that over 1,000 individuals have been killed in London since Sadiq Khan took cost eight years in the past.
‘Sadiq Khan has merely not finished sufficient, and we can’t afford one other 4 years underneath his watch.’
Teenager Max Moy Wheatley, from the Orpington space of Bromley, was discovered stabbed in September
Andre Salmon, 18, was gunned down in north London final July
Khaled Saleh, 17, was discovered with stab wounds and was handled by paramedics however later died final June
Sadiq Khan was elected London Mayor in May 2016. This cumulative graph reveals the variety of homicides for the ultimate a part of 2016 after which every of the next eight years
Earlier this month the grieving step-mother of homicide sufferer Jodie Chesney, who misplaced her life after being stabbed in 2019, accused Mr Khan of being ‘extra considering elevating income by Ulez than in doing the fitting factor for Londoners’.
She added: ‘His legacy is normalising knife crime, in addition to draining each penny from the general public.’
Meanwhile former police officer Norman Brennan mentioned it was ‘shameful and staggering’ that so many individuals had misplaced their lives to an ‘epidemic’.
The ex-policeman mentioned Mr Khan ‘wanted to get a grip of the scenario’, which has left households dwelling in concern of leaving their home after sunlight hours and getting on buses and tubes.
MailOnline has contacted the Mayor’s workplace for remark.