Where diversity leads: Khan’s Commission for Dystopia

Sadiq Khan’s 15-strong Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, eleven of whom are non-white.

By Robert J Davies

One of the many ironies about Sadiq Khan’s Orwellian new “Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm” is that its composition is about as undiverse as the London Mayor could possibly get away with.

Three-quarters of the portentously-named Commission are selected from visible ethnic minorities. Khan was, of course, shrewd enough to chuck in a couple of token whites, lest his blatant disdain for the native people of this country become too obvious.

It was in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests last year that Khan made his move. London’s Cenotaph had been desecrated and Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square daubed with graffiti. A statue dedicated to 19th century Bristol philanthropist Edward Colston had been pulled down and hurled into the city’s harbour while the police meekly stood by and did nothing. Traditional Britain was under attack, reasoned Khan. It was looking weak – the time was ripe for a left-wing jackboot on whitey’s throat.

The 15-strong Commission’s remit, essentially, is to decouple the diverse London of today from its past. Cultural Marxists are not keen on the Britain of yesteryear: they loathe the fact that until the 1950s this country was almost 100% white. And nothing better reminds us of that than statues of historic figures who inevitably, because of the era in which they lived, were white. Many were also male and that’s nothing to be proud of these days either. Well, unless you were originally born female, of course.

Street names are also a painful reminder of when London was white British and so they too, will need to be changed, probably to something along the lines of “Martin Luther King Avenue”, or “Oliver Tambo Way” or perhaps “Sadiq Khan High Street” etc.

This isn’t a wind-up. On the Mayor of London’s official website is a page devoted to the new Commission, on which we learn: “London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, with more than 300 languages spoken every day. Yet its statues, plaques and street names largely reflect a bygone era. The mayor is committed to ensuring that the capital’s population and history are celebrated and commemorated.”

So on the one hand, Sadiq Khan denigrates our history by sneering at it as a “bygone era”; on the other he claims he wants to celebrate the population’s history. It seems a contradiction, but it isn’t. What he means is that the story of white British Londoners is a “bygone era” and the focus should now be on the people who are steadily replacing them. It means that centuries of history up to 1950 must now be deprecated – but that’s fine too because the people of yesteryear were not only white (ie. institutionally and irredeemably racist) but demonstrably failed to live up to the woke standards of 21st century Britain.

In one sense, this miserable exercise does us all a favour. It is a stern warning of where mass immigration and its accompanying ideological bedfellows, equality and diversity, will lead once white British people fall into minority status nationwide as they now have in our capital city. It will lead to white people being forced to stand aside and permanent rule by the forces of the Left.

Someone on Twitter earlier mocked the RCM for conflating ethnicity with political affiliation. In fact it is perfectly reasonable to do so. It is a statistical fact that migrants vote overwhelmingly for left-wing parties. Allowing mass immigration to continue remorselessly will eventually spell doom for the Conservatives and indeed any other right-of-centre political movement.

The Left are already aware of this and are licking their lips in anticipation. In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, many Remainers talked openly of how a second referendum, if it could be put off for a few years, would be easier for their side to win thanks to a combination of old, white Brexiteers dying off and young, Remain-voting people of colour growing in number.

It surely strikes at the heart of democracy – or certainly at the heart of what we value about democracy – to talk in such terms. Of course, one can see the attraction to the Left of being pro-immigration. But what if you get vast numbers of newcomers who, for religious reasons, loathe gay people or believe women are second-class citizens? How would the Left feel then if by sheer force of numbers, democracy – as distorted by demographics – ran over several of their sacred cows? And what is to stop them setting up their own ethnic party one day and fielding candidates against Labour?

For now though, mass immigration strengthens the hard Left and emboldens them and Khan’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm is a miserably pwerful example of this. Time does not permit, at this stage, an in-depth analysis of the people involved but a cursory glance at some of their CVs rings immediate alarm bells.

For the following information, I am grateful to Nigel Farage’s research on this subject, as published in his article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph: Starmer must rein in Sadiq Khan before it’s too late. He notes that the group “appears to be made up of hard left anti-British activists who are not representative of proud Londoners.”

Mr Farage firstly highlights Toyin Agbetu, described as a “social rights activist”. This is the man who chose to heckle the Queen in 2007 as she arrived in Westminster Abbey to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade (hashtag irony) and then threatened to punch a security guard when restrained.

Another member, writes Mr Farage, is billed as an art historian: Aindrea Emelife. She reacted with delight at the criminal removal of the Colston statue last year, saying that it gave her “a rush of adrenaline”. The only thing she is on record as being prepared to defend is the “importance to London of the LGBTQIA+ community.”

Worst of all, in Mr Farage’s estimation, is Lynette Nabbosa, self-described as a “business lecturer with a background in financial inclusion”. She has written that “no matter where you find examples of white supremacy, all roads lead back to my country of birth [Britain].” Well, true, in a country which even as late as the 1980s was still 97% white, white people by dint of their overwhelming majority could be considered to be supreme – as black people are to this day in their own ancestral lands.

What kind of person writes things like that? Simple: someone who loathes all vestiges of Britain as created by its native, host population. You don’t need to be a clinical psychologist to work out that people with such a mindset essentially hate those of European blood and want them to step aside.

Such is the calibre of “commissioner” selected by Khan to reinvent our once mighty capital city as something very different and very, very unBritish. As for the rest of the team – when time permits, we will find out what we can about who they are and where they stand. A grim task, if ever there was one.