| London Mayor Sadiq Khan 20:23 - Jun 10 with 32361 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
London mayor Sadiq Khan promised today that he will begin the process of pulling down ‘inappropriate’ statues around London — after Bristolians dumped the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the river at the weekend.
To investigate London’s landmarks, Khan has created a ‘Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm’ which will review statues and street names in the capital to make sure they reflect the diversity of its people. Khan said he expected the commission to find that it’s ‘not appropriate to be memorialising, or to be celebrating’ certain figures, especially those with a racist past and links to the slave trade.
In 2018, he proudly unveiled a statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett — the first-ever statue in Parliament Square of a woman. At the time, Khan declared that ‘from the very first week of my Mayoralty, I supported Caroline Criado Perez’s campaign to put up a statue of a woman in Parliament Square, and I’m so proud that the day of its unveiling is now upon us.’
But while Fawcett is mostly celebrated today for the campaign for women’s suffrage, less well-known is her ardent support of the British Empire. Fawcett was such a fan of Empire, that in 1901 she was commissioned by the government to lead an investigation into British concentration camps in South Africa during the second Boer war, after high mortality rates and appalling conditions were reported there.
When she arrived, Fawcett thought the camps were deeply necessary for the war, and her eventual report said the commission had a ‘generally favourable’ view of them. She also suggested that many of the deaths were caused by the ‘unsanitary habits’ of the Boers. Around 28,000 Boers died in the camps.
Fawcett didn’t have much thought for the participation of Black Africans in society after the war either. In 1899, she wrote that after the settlement of the war;
‘I hope we are too deeply pledged to the principle of equal privileges for all white races to abandon it.’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/will-sadiq-khan-have-to-knock-down-millicent
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Do you think Sadiq will include his pet project in the list of 'inappropriate' statues he intends to tear down? It begs the question as to whether he is engaging with this exercise simply to boost his personal popularity, considering he proudly unveiled such a statue himself less than two years ago.
The man is a colossal hypocrite. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:30 - Jun 10 with 11223 views | Flashberryjack |
He may want to change the name of London, there have been a few names suggested already. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:33 - Jun 10 with 11215 views | exiledclaseboy |
Like what? | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:34 - Jun 10 with 11214 views | Jango |
‘not appropriate to be memorialising, or to be celebrating’ certain figures, especially those with a racist past and links to the slave trade.‘
Has this man forgot he’s a practicing Muslim? | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:42 - Jun 10 with 11193 views | Flashberryjack |
Londinium, maybe. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:43 - Jun 10 with 11187 views | JimmyGilligan |
Churchill should be top of the list | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:53 - Jun 10 with 11168 views | PozuelosSideys |
Looking forward to seeing the angst and confusion as the Karl Marx statue is pulled down in Highgate!
The knee-jerk reactions and decisions being made whilst emotions are still running high is quite astonishing. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:57 - Jun 10 with 11144 views | FieryJack |
I very much doubt Khan, or anyone else, knew anything about this woman's views on the British Empire. So, uninformed, maybe, but a hypocrite, no.
The Spectator is an unpleasant right wing pamphlet, staffed mostly, I imagine by ex-public schoolboys who are paid to grub about in the dirt desperately seeking some sh*t to smear in Khan's face.
This site has become unbelievable in the last few days - absolutely taken over by rancid threads and posts from right-w(h)ingers. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 21:08 - Jun 10 with 11104 views | PentyrchJack |
...wait a minute, didn't the Romans keep slaves?......... | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 21:09 - Jun 10 with 11099 views | Joe_bradshaw |
Yeah but straight roads and central heating mun. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 21:11 - Jun 10 with 11093 views | PentyrchJack |
Straight roads should be banned too | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 21:30 - Jun 10 with 11047 views | Joe_bradshaw |
OK. We’ll chuck in a few gay roads as well. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 22:40 - Jun 10 with 10940 views | Treforys_Jack |
Whys that ? | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 22:53 - Jun 10 with 10910 views | JimmyGilligan |
Because he was very racist, do some research | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:08 - Jun 10 with 10877 views | Luther27 |
I wonder in maybe 100 years time how our values will be judged.
Funny old world eh | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:09 - Jun 10 with 10877 views | Treforys_Jack |
I know exactly what he was, a product of his time, and whilst most of his life leaves a lot be desired by modern standards, the decisions he made and drove through a very hesitant and wary parliament makes him worthy of remembrance in my eyes. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:11 - Jun 10 with 10867 views | JimmyGilligan |
Why'd you ask then? I'm not getting into a long drawn out argument, because frankly I dont care enough. If you can justify some of his ways in your head, then you crack on. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:11 - Jun 10 with 10866 views | Treforys_Jack |
Well aware of it | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:14 - Jun 10 with 10856 views | Luther27 |
Well just thank your lucky stars that as you go to bed tonight he was in power and not Neville. You and yours might not be here to tell the tale eh. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:14 - Jun 10 with 10856 views | Treforys_Jack |
I was asking for you to elaborate, rather than just issue a statement, that's how debate works. He was the right man for the job and was then rightly cast aside as soon as possible. Is that a fair statement? | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:18 - Jun 10 with 10841 views | Kerouac |
Winston Churchill sort of sums it all up.
You can focus on him leading the country in the fight against Fascism, and playing his part in bringing the holocaust to an end...or you can focus on some distasteful opinions.
It seems to me in general that idiots struggle to focus on what's important.
That the vacant get distracted easily, but there you go. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:18 - Jun 10 with 10836 views | Darran |
“I'm not getting into a long drawn out argument”
Blimey what’s happened to you?  | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:21 - Jun 10 with 10829 views | Luther27 |
Idiots do not learn from history. History not bigotry is our future. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:22 - Jun 10 with 10824 views | JimmyGilligan |
Thank your lucky stars your ancestors weren't Kenyan or Indian, or you might not be here to 'tell the tale' thanks to Churchill | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:24 - Jun 10 with 10821 views | JimmyGilligan |
On this occasion it is pointless | | | |
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