| London Mayor Sadiq Khan 20:23 - Jun 10 with 32526 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 17:18 - Jul 16 with 2013 views | Highjack |
They’re good at quadraquatic equations. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 13:57 - Jul 17 with 1930 views | Catullus |
OK, to be clearer, demoracy is when the electorate decide who our representatives are. I didn't mean the electorate votes in Parliament which I suspect you knew but ignored.
No one should be allowed into a government unless they are elected by the people. You don't have to remind me that British democracy is broken too. I'd do away with the HoL in the blink of an eye.
The MEP's didn't have a say in nominating VdL, she was foisted on them after some back room bargaining then she was the only candidate, the spitzenkandidat as they call it. How is that democratic? If she failed to get enough votes what would they so, go back and offer some incentives to MEP's until they voted the right way? | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 18:39 - Jul 17 with 1848 views | felixstowe_jack |
Good post. Good explanation but I guess some will still not see the truth. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 19:13 - Jul 17 with 1837 views | WarwickHunt |
Fûck me - the Brains’ Trust has arrived. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:33 - Jul 17 with 1814 views | felixstowe_jack |
I see you are still blind to the truth I do pity you sometimes.
Hunt by name hunt by nature. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:51 - Jul 17 with 1803 views | WarwickHunt |
What - I hunt stuff? 😂😂😂
Fûcking simpleton. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 07:35 - Jul 18 with 1766 views | felixstowe_jack |
Still can't express an opion without swearing how sad. [Post edited 18 Jul 2020 7:35]
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 08:33 - Jul 18 with 1752 views | WarwickHunt |
What’s an opion, dull cûnt?
Stop digging, you plum. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 15:25 - Jul 18 with 1711 views | Oneill_77 |
He clearly has issues
Warracant by name and nature | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 19:00 - Jul 18 with 1685 views | WarwickHunt |
Hello fûckwit, is the 77 your IQ?
Daddy home from the match yet? He must be so proud of you sticking up for him.
Are you an ugly cûnt too? | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 19:29 - Jul 18 with 1668 views | Oneill_77 |
Ah Warracant. The ol man bashing away on his keyboard, in his squalid bedsit, in the shadows of a double-decker - who Lovesakock. Only roots (!) for the lookers, allegedly.
Time for you to stop bullying, ol man. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 19:34 - Jul 18 with 1660 views | WarwickHunt |
Clueless cûnt. If I sold my house I could buy your fûcking street.😂😂😂 | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:06 - Jul 18 with 1641 views | Oneill_77 |
You, have no idea. Bash away in your relative squalidness ol fool.
I am atleast as many steps ahead of you as your bbc-educated IQ. Go figure, little nonce | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 20:38 - Jul 18 with 1621 views | WarwickHunt |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 22:01 - Jul 18 with 1593 views | Oneill_77 |
True to form and type, that truly is your best shot. Nonce | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 22:49 - Jul 18 with 1574 views | felixstowe_jack |
Yes sadly he does. | |
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:18 - Jul 18 with 1563 views | Oneill_77 |
He does, indeed. He likes to hide.
A jekyll and hyde.
Warwickhunt and Warracant. Both as evil as one another in that squalid bedsit in his sad existence, tapping away furiously with his stunted index tarr-stained index finger, the cant. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 23:40 - Jul 18 with 1559 views | WarwickHunt |
What’s tarr, dull cûnt?
Bedsit? Pay attention, dopey, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 00:14 - Jul 19 with 1536 views | Oneill_77 |
Perspective. Typical of the nonce in flight to deflect on a typo.
Flight or fight, nonce ? This evening has shown you up for being that despised Warracant, who flights. No substance, just a fat bully of the highest order.
A fat bully. That's you isnt it, Warratvvat | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 00:17 - Jul 19 with 1532 views | WarwickHunt |
Your mate Rancid knows who I am - have a word, soppy bollocks.😂😘 | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 00:22 - Jul 19 with 1529 views | Oneill_77 |
Way out of your depth.
You truly have no idea, do you Mr Fleet of foot street. Quaking. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 00:25 - Jul 19 with 1524 views | WarwickHunt |
Loved you in Only Fools and Horses, Rodney.
You massive streak of piss. 😂 | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 00:31 - Jul 19 with 1508 views | Oneill_77 |
"Clown-shoes" like you deserve their comeuppance, little keyboard nonce.
Warracant by name, Warranonce by nature. We know how much you do, little fairy. | | | |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan on 00:31 - Jul 19 with 1508 views | exiledclaseboy |
Hello hello what’s all this shouting we'll have no trouble here. | |
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