Apparently Sadiq Khan is using Taxpayers money again to set up a commission of hand picked panelist’s, to carry through another of his vanity projects.
They intend to draw up lists of London statues, buildings, street names and squares that ‘they’ feel should be renamed because of links to slavery. These include include Hans Crescent and Sloane Square - both named after naturalist Sir Hans Sloane, who founded the British Museum.
Although he worked as a doctor treating workers on slave plantations in Jamaica.... and also wrote about their treatment, his actual crime was that while there he married the heiress to sugar plantations worked by enslaved people.
There have been several petitions on the 38 degrees website calling for the removal of a statue of Sir Hans Sloane in Duke of York Square in Chelsea.
The latest petition by Roy Tonkin also wants Kensington and Chelsea Council to change the name of the nearby Sloane Square.
Any changes could also mean the nearby District and Circle line Tube station might need a new name too.
Pat Mason, the leader of the snowflake Labour opposition on Kensington and Chelsea council said his group was likely to back removing statues linked to the slave trade and renaming streets that are also linked to slavery.
He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that Labour also wants the council "to disinvest from companies who built their wealth from slavery- the Council has some £300m of investments."
This would also mean renaming the Tate Britain on Milbank and Tate Modern on Bankside.
He added: "Removing statues and renaming streets is a symbolic start. What needs to follow is disinvestment, the dismantling of the finance institutions and companies who built their wealth from slavery, and their assets distributed as reparations paid to the descendent families and communities of the slave trade and the countries they devastated as a result."
Other street names which campaigners think should go include Downing Street in the heart of Westminster, where our Prime Ministers have officially resided since 1735.
The street is named after George Downing who defended slavery and the money it brought others (allegedly).
One of the most ridiculous targets for a name change is Trafalgar Square, actually named after the famous battle won by Lord Horatio Nelson, it is a popular tourist attraction.
The backdrop for celebrations and protests and religious festivals is being attacked because Trafalgar is not only a famous battle, but it’s also Cape Trafalgar a headland in Spain.
So what links Trafalgar Square with slavery... apparently the headland was passed by many ships on their way to the port of Cadiz which played a major part in the slave trade.
You really couldn’t make this stuff up!
The fact that Trafalgar Square was also the location for London’s first Slavery Remembrance National Memorial Service in 2016, seems to have slipped into obscurity.
Black Lives Matter campaigners would also like to see the back of Nelson’s Column as they allege admiral Nelson was a supporter of slavery, although that’s not documented and has no factual evidence to support the claim.
Over in East London, Tower Hamlets council is talking to residents about the future of Milligan Street in Poplar.
It was named after a Robert Milligan who owned two sugar plantations in Jamaica worked by slave labour and owned 526 enslaved people at the time of his death.
The council have already taken down his statue in West India Quay near the Museum of London Docklands in June in response to Black Lives Matters protests.
The last five years of Khan have not only almost distorted London as a modern functioning democratic city, with financial and commercial districts, plus shopping centres the envy of the world, he now wants to destroy our history, including historical monuments that attract tourists in vast numbers.
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
Khans ‘Commission for Diversity’ prompted a colourful response from patrician Mr Rees-Mogg, who branded the mayor 'Red Khan'.
The Commons Leader said “It’s councils that should be responsible for naming streets”. The MP for North East Somerset advised Sadiq Khan “not to interfere in things that aren't his responsibility”.
“Who would have thought that you'd have a more left-wing leader of London than Ken Livingstone? And now we do, and Red Khan is he,” Mr Rees-Mogg told the Commons.
It seems strange however that the protests are only about anything connected to black slavery. There appears to be no such protests against anything connected to white or European slaves, as were under the Roman Empire.
Also...no protests from Khan against companies who profited by forced Labour of Jewish prisoners during the war.
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