20 Feb 2021
London mayor Sadiq Khan has suggested it is critics of his scheme to audit place names and historic statues in the British capital who are trying to “engineer a culture war”, rather than the would-be iconoclasts who have made memorials an issue of them in the first place.
“Some people are trying to engineer a culture war because it plays to the hinterland or it gets more listeners to LBC,” said Mayor Khan on the LBC radio station, after the host former BBC presenter and fanatical anti-Brexiteer James O’Brien said some people were suggesting he “spent more time worrying about statues than stabbed teenagers.”
Delingpole: Woke History Audit Confuses Anti-Slaver with Slaver
20 Feb 2021
A street in Wales has been put on the naughty step by the Welsh government because of its supposed historical associations with the slave trade. But the man after whom it is named was in fact one of Britain’s most ardent and heroic anti-slavers.
Peel Street in Wrexham is one of dozens of streets put on a warning list as part of a £170,000 audit
The Slave Trade and the British Empire commissioned by the Welsh government in the wake of the briefly fashionable Black Lives Matter protests.
Though it doesn’t make it onto the Red danger list reserved for alleged monsters like Christopher Columbus, Lord Kitchener, Clive of India, and Francis Drake “definite personal culpability” it does make it onto the next-worst amber list marked “personal culpability uncertain”.
PLANS to set up a “people’s tribunal” for deaths in custody were given a major boost this week with Black Lives Matter UK donating £40,000 to the project.
The United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC), a coalition of family members who have lost loved ones in police custody, said its tribunal will invite international human-rights experts to investigate failures to prosecute those responsible for their relatives’ deaths.
The donation is part of a wider scheme by BLM UK to release more than £100,000 to black-led organisations across the country after it received £1.2 million from a GoFundMe appeal during protests last summer.
UFFC, which is leading the initiative with Migrant Media and 4WardEverUK, welcomed the donation.
16 Feb 2021
British police have begun employing drones to monitor political protests throughout the country, as campaigners warn that the increasingly heavy-handed tactics employed by the police may be used to “silence dissent”.
A freedom of information request from the UK Drone Watch campaign group found that police across the country have begun using drones to surveil protests.
Police forces in Surrey, Cleveland, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire and West Midlands, as well as the Devon and Cornwall and Avon and Somerset forces, were all found to have used drones during protests,
The Guardianreported.
Protesters monitored by the police with drones included anti-lockdown, Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion activists as well as one so-called ‘extreme-right protest’.
16 Feb 2021
Britain’s Electoral Commission has rejected efforts to register Black Lives Matter as a political party on grounds that it would be “likely to mislead voters”.
“The application to register Black Lives Matter as a political party was refused by the Commission on the basis that the proposed name is likely to mislead a voter as to the effect of their vote,” said a spokesman for the controversial regulator in comments reported by MailOnline.
“As part of our considerations we examined the existing groups by the same or similar names in the UK. Having contacted a number of groups, they confirmed that the party was not associated with them,” the spokesman explained.