Tories in another embarrassing mistake with Susan Hall video – mistaking NYC for London when she hopes to become London mayor!
Susan Hall’s campaign trail to become the next London mayor has not been a successful one. The Conservative’s London candidate has been caught up in several embarrassing gaffes in the run-up to the election, including a suspicious story where she claimed to have been pickpocketed on the Tube – but it later appeared she had just lost her purse.
She had previously faced questions over appearing to support the claims that the US presidential election was ‘stolen’ after old tweets resurfaced. She said she regretted liking the tweets and never believed the claims the election was stolen – and doesn’t know why she liked the tweets.
After several embarrassing radio interviews, she struggled to answer basic questions about the city she hopes to be mayor of, including the basic salaries of a police officer (despite fighting crime being her number one policy).
And now, an advert in support of her hopes to become London mayor has been deleted after it was revealed that scenes from New York were used instead of London.
The clip attacked London’s current mayor Sadiq Khan and used footage of a stampede in a New York subway station.
The advert has been quickly removed and replaced with a video with the NYC scenes cut out.
Hall’s spokesperson said the video had been created by Conservative Party headquarters and not her campaign team.
In the original black and white video, the scenes of a stampede at NY’s Penn Station in 2017 were overlaid with a US-accented narrator making alleged claims: “A 54% increase in knife crime since the Labour mayor seized power has the metropolis teetering on the brink of chaos.
“And in the chaos, people seek a desperate reprieve.”
The video also warned of “squads of Ulez-enforcers dressed in black, faces covered with masks, terrorising communities at the beck and call of their Labour mayor master, who has implemented a tax on driving, forcing people to stay inside or go underground”.
“Gripped by the tendrils of rising crime” it continued, “London citizens stay inside”.
“The streets are quiet.”
