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Originally Posted by Tannaton
Theresa May refused to issue a license for them to be used England or Wales when the was the home secretary, but they are still licensed and used in Northern Ireland - silly cow.
Given Boris bought them, and he was now the PM, I can't imagine a license wouldn't have been granted in new world.
They were being stored free of charge and being used for training of the NI Police when they were scrapped - it was a Boris Bashing stunt that cost the rate payers and TFL users over £300k.
For me it's not about whether you have socialist or conservative views, many of Sadiq's decisions are clearly based on point scoring politics and posturing and not the best interests of London residents and workers. I nearly vomit when I hear the radio adverts that end in "To the mayor of London and TFL...." he's just on a big ego trip, I expect one day he will be running for leader of the Labour party.
So yes, for the reasons explained above, I firmly blame Sadiq Khan.
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Sadiq Khan had selling the water cannons as a key pledge in his manifesto. Londoners voted him in. I’m pretty certain on that alone that Londoners considered in their interest that they wanted the water cannons gone! How bizarre to claim otherwise(?).
Claiming that Boris as PM would have unilaterally unbanned them (taking away the license to use is akin to a ban I’m afraid) is pure speculation.
Khan was attacked by the Boris-supporting right wing for not selling the ‘useless’ water cannons up until the point he had actually done so!
But yes. Let’s blame Sadiq Khan.