Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, runs a metropolis of 8.9 million people and is responsible for the country’s largest police force and the capital’s transport, housing and fire and emergency planning. But is he such a micromanager he is also issuing diktats about precisely which pedestrians bus drivers should be splashing?
That’s the worry of Reform MP Lee Anderson, who is furious after his lovely suit got soaked when one of the capital’s double-deckers ran through a puddle on his walk to work yesterday.
“A London bus has just drove by a big puddle and splashed me so all my trousers are wet through,” he said on a video he posted immediately to X. “I have to get them dry when I get to work.
“Maybe it’s Mayor Khan instructing his bus drivers to splash Lee Anderson or any Reform UK Members of Parliament they see in the Westminster area.”
Is it true? Has Sir Sadiq really tasked his bus drivers with issuing a watery rebuke to Reform’s MPs? And would any London bus driver really recognise, say, James McMurdock? Rats in a Sack did contact the Mayor of London’s office but a response – like, increasingly, the capital’s buses – failed to arrive on time.
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