Sadiq Khan will review all monuments in London to ensure they reflect city’s diversity

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[MNDude]

Sadiq Khan has announced a commission to review statues, plaques and street names in London to ensure landmarks in the capital “suitably reflect London’s achievements and diversity”.

The announcement comes after a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol at the weekend. The bronze monument was then pushed into the Bristol Harbour.

The London mayor said the new Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm will focus on “increasing representation among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (Bame) communities, women, the LGBT+ community and disability groups”.

He also said a national slavery memorial and a national Sikh war memorial should be erected in London.

“For example, I think there should be in London a national slavery memorial, a national Sikh memorial, I think we should be commemorating great black Britons from Stephen Lawrence to many others.”

Stephen Lawrence was a black teenager from southeast London who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in 1993.

[Thommas]

Take down the monuments to Churchill, Nelson, Cornwal, and the kings and queens of the past because they were all RACISS!

Now put up monuments to celebrate Mohammad, Saladin, and Osama B'n Laden.

Nice going Brits. I guess all the men with strong Y genes died in WWI and II.

[Thommas]

Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure..

[Cecily]

Winston Churchill comments to himself: “Why did I bother to save the UK?”

[butlerweave]

These Idiots become Mayor and then think they Own the City

[robowombat]

Certainly a monument to the Mahdi and Khalifa Abdulla will be erected.