My physical fitness is very up and down. When I find myself horrendously out of shape I make a focused effort for a couple of months to get back in to good condition and then kind of rest on my laurels until I need to repeat it.
In other words, I've been able to adjust my physical strength and stamina more or less at will. While I can increase knowledge in an area, I've never been able to increase learning ability or actual intelligence.
So I believe getting smarter is more difficult, Though getting back in shape is harder the older I get .
Not justifying anything, but politicians constantly "share a platform" with controversial figures. Including people as extreme as Hitler and Saddam Hussein - It's part of the job. I'd put more on the views they personally express rather than "He was in the same room as someone who once said something offensive!"
Anyway, here's Sadiq Khan's manifesto;
These are my 10 priorities for London
Tackle the housing crisis, building thousands more homes for Londoners each year, setting an ambitious target of 50 per cent of new homes being genuinely affordable, and getting a better deal for renters.
Freeze London transport fares for four years and introduce a one-hour bus ‘Hopper’ ticket, paid for by making TfL more efficient and exploring new revenue-raising opportunities. Londoners won’t pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than they do today.
Make London safer, with action to restore neighbourhood policing, tackle gangs and knife crime, a plan to tackle the spread of extremism, and a review of the resourcing of our fire service.
Be the most pro-business Mayor yet, working in partnership with industry to deliver on skills, infrastructure, and growth.
Restore London’s air quality to legal and safe levels, with action to make travel greener and pedestrianise Oxford Street, while protecting the green belt.
Set up ‘Skills for Londoners’ to ensure all Londoners have the opportunity to train in the skills that our economy needs.
Tackle low pay, working with employers to make London a Living Wage City.
Challenge gender inequality, working to close the gender pay gap and support women to break the glass ceiling while helping to remove the barriers to women’s success.
Make cycling and walking safer, with more segregated cycle routes, action on dangerous junctions, and safer lorries.
Make London a fairer and more tolerant city, open and accessible to all, and one in which all can live and prosper free from prejudice.
Just wondering what makes you assume he will be injecting more religion in to politics? Is your view based on particular comments he himself has made, or is it just that he's a Muslim? If so, are you consistent in that view? Do you believe that a Christian President is automatically a bad thing?
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