A caller who could no longer
contain the excesses of Sadiq Khan flustered him after he called President
Donald Trump, Brexit and Scottish supporters ‘racist.’
During the programme, the caller
was allowed time to fume over Khan’s comparisons between Scottish nationalism
and President Trump and those in support of Brexit.
The London major was blasted for
saying Scottish nationalism is an act of racism. He was given more knocks as he
commented on the “rise of populist and narrow nationalist parties around the
world”.
The LBC caller attacked the London
Mayor for his comments as she claimed he was trying to “deduce half of the
Scottish population”.
The Mayor while speaking said:
“What I’m saying is, now of all times, we have had Brexit, you’ve had President
Trump elected, you’ve seen a rise of these narrow populist parties across
Europe.
“Look at Austria, look at France,
look at what is happening in the Netherlands.
“We shouldn’t be pulling away, we
should be sticking together.”
The remark enraged the LBC caller
who accused Mr Khan of insulting the Scottish people again.
She said: “Yes, you have just done
it again because you have said, ‘I wouldn’t call a Trump supporter a racist, I
wouldn’t call a Ukip supporter a racist, I wouldn’t call an independence
supporter a racist’.
“You have just lined us up in that
rogues gallery. You’ve done it again basically. No apologies from you.”
However, Mr Khan was swift to
fight back at the attack maintaining that he would not apologise for his
comments.
He added: “I’m not apologising,
let’s just be clear, what I am saying is that I have not called the nationalist
movement racist or bigoted.
“What I am saying is at this time
we should be pulling together not pulling apart.”
During his speech the Mayor
referred to the special relationship between London and Scotland.
He said: “Londoners and Scots
share many of the same values and outlooks. We celebrate our diversity and take
pride in our tolerance.
“With the world becoming an
increasingly divided place, Brexit, President Trump, and the rise of populist
and narrow nationalist parties around the world, now's not the time to fuel
that division. Or to seek separation or isolation.”
The Mayor did not back down with
his comments as he finished insisting that the rise of populist movements could
not be ignored.
“You can’t escape the fact over
the last two years we’ve had these events, Brexit, President Trump and the rise
of populist movements, you can’t escape that,” he said.
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