Send The Army Into London

Reform MP Nadhim Zahawi said it’s time to send in the army to the streets of London because the capital doesn’t ‘feel safe’. 

Speaking on LBC, the Tory defector was asked: ‘Do you feel safe in London?’ Mr Zahawi responded: ‘No, and I’m a big guy. I don’t feel safe that my 13-year-old can walk in London – that can’t be right.’ 

He continued: ‘If I were Home Secretary I’d be calling the chief of police saying “listen, if you need help we’ll send the army in.’

New crime statistics reveal that homicides in London are at their lowest number in a decade, with just over one unlawful killing (1.07) per 100,000 people last year. 

Mr Zahawi, 58, also said he wanted to ‘thank Jim Ratcliffe’, the billionaire owner of Manchester United, whose comments earlier this week that the UK had been ‘colonised’ by immigrants caused public outrage.

LBC host James O’Brien responded to Mr Zahawi’s comments: ‘If you want to bring in the army to do something in this country, it costs the local council £4,000 per soldier per week.

‘So you’re calling for other taxpayers to pay that while you’re on the hook for £5 million to the England revenue for avoiding paying your own share.’

Mr Zahawi was sacked as Tory Party chairman in 2023 after an ethics inquiry discovered he had failed to disclose that HMRC was investigating his taxes. He later paid nearly £5 million to settle his tax affairs.

James O’Brien continued: ‘Whilst £17 billion (in taxes) is paid by? Immigrants in the UK.’ 

Mr Zahawi recalled an incident that left him feeling unsafe, saying: ‘Yesterday I walked from my home in one of the most upmarket areas of London and an individual walked past me.

‘I literally walked off the pavement into the middle of the road, kept a very close eye, at 8 am.

‘He just looked like he hadn’t slept for a week and just looked like somebody that might be violent, I don’t know, but I just walked away from the pavement.’

London Mayor Sadiq Khan responded to Mr Zahawi’s comments that he needed to ‘stop being a pound shop version of Donald Trump’.

He said: ‘Rather than trying to copy Donald Trump, why not talk about our capital city?

‘We are the tech capital of Europe, the second biggest tech place in the world, cultural capital of the world, the music capital of the world.

‘Rather than talking our capital city down, why doesn’t the Reform Party behave like true patriots and talk our capital city up instead of copying the ideas of Donald Trump and JD fans? Think for yourself, man.’ 

He is correct, though; London has degenerated into a cesspool, and something needs to be done about it because nowhere feels safe.

This, of course, is not a job for the military; it’s the job for PC Plod to get out there and do their job, instead of sitting behind their desks checking for hurty words, and as for our military, there is none, not anymore. It’s all phoney numbers and troops that couldn’t sustain a one-year deployment; then again, there’s always the Army Reserve. In the meantime, our Met is being defunded, with them closing as many stations as possible, while manipulating data to serve their agenda.

London is not safe, in fact, nowhere is safe, and our government are in denial or just doesn’t care. You can’t walk the streets wearing anything expensive, and if you receive a phone call on your mobile, you either just don’t answer it or cling onto it for dear life because otherwise it will be swiped straight out of your hand. If it’s not superglued down or connected to you with handcuffs, you can guarantee it will be robbed.