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So is this idea a bit dopey
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Yes, completely dopey. Ridiculous. I mean, it's typical of Sadiq Khan. If you talk to the commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, he hasn't asked for this
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He's asking for more money so he can try and get some sort of order on our streets
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This is utterly ridiculous. And I think the commission has cost over a quarter of a million pounds
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That money could have gone into the policing service in London. Now, City Con, the London Mayor would say there's a huge amount of time and energy and policing
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manpower wasted on small offences such as, you know, small amounts of cannabis
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I mean, you know as well as I do, Susan, even outside Parliament, outside here
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the stench of weed is always on the streets of London, as indeed it is in many cities and towns across the country
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Is this a sensible thing or do you worry? Actually, there are other things to worry about
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stepping as a gateway drug towards harder stuff, and perhaps even we have huge mental health issues
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on the streets of every city in Britain now. Yes, and that's exactly the point, isn't it
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I mean, this is tinkering at the edges. It's about 350 pages, this report
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and it says that small amounts should be allowed, but you not allowed to sell it Well if a police officer stops somebody And they got an amount of a smallish amount but an amount of drugs with them how does that police officer know if that
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person's going to sell it or whether they're using it for their own use? I mean, at the end of the day
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if you look at knife crime, which is rife, a third of all knife crime in the country, in England and
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Wales, is in London. We need to be concentrating on things that are actually a real harm to London
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and not tinkering around the edges for, oh, it's just press he wants, really
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He is a ridiculous man. But Susan Hall, he might say, and a lot of people say, you know
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more people die of booze and driving cars. What's wrong just with having a smoke so long as you're not selling it
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you're not dealing it, you're just partaking of the old puffer home
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What's the problem? Well, the commissioner will tell you it increases crimes like shoplifting and burglary
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There's real connections to it, whereas there isn't with alcohol. If you look at county lines where kids are getting into real trouble, it's all over drugs
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And they do say that the softer drugs lead to harder drugs. We all know where that goes
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So if the government wants to look at a complete look at the whole thing
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But what Sadiq Khan is suggesting here is total nonsense. OK, thanks for your input
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We have to leave it there. Conservative London Assembly member Susan Hall
