LONDON: London Mayor Sadiq Khan today downplayed a giant yellow bikini-clad balloon of him set to fly over the city demanding his ouster over growing safety concerns in the city. A crowdfunded Make London Safe Again campaign raised more than 58,000 pounds for the 29-foot giant balloon as part of its drive calling for Khan's removal from his post. The London Mayor had angered Trump supporters when he gave permission for the US President's angry baby balloon to take flight in the city during the presidential visit in mid-July, saying the idea that we limit the rights to protest, we limit the rights to free speech because it may cause offence to a foreign leader is a very, very slippery slope. The site also says that if the campaign raises any extra money it will be "used for a continuing campaign to remove Sadiq Khan from office" and "defending free speech". A spokesperson for City Hall, the Mayor's office, said the organisers of the bikini blimp's flight had been given permission to use Parliament Square Garden. “I don’t really think yellow’s my color, though.”

Yanny Bruere, 28, the brain behind the latest blimp, said “Bikini Khan” was done “in retaliation to the Donald Trump balloon being approved by Sadiq Khan in London.”

The choice of a bikini is a reference to a 2016 advertising campaign that featured a young woman in a yellow two-piece that Khan had removed from buses, subways and transit stations for promoting “unhealthy or unrealistic” body images.
Protesters against Mayor of London Sadiq Khan plan to fly a balloon of him in which he is wearing a yellow bikini over Parliament Square, London on 1 September in the same spot where the Donald Trump baby balloon was flown on 13 July.