A photograph of a young white family was said to not represent “real Londoners” by a member of Sadiq Khan’s staff. The Times has more.
The mayor of London has been urged to apologise after official guidelines said such a photo should not be used when promoting Khan or the Greater London Authority. The picture of a mother and father with their son and daughter beside the Thames, appeared in Look Book – Mayor of London Brand Guidelines that was published on the official City Hall website. It was captioned: “Doesn’t represent real Londoners.”
The guidelines give advice on showing the mayor in the best light and say official photos “should reflect a recognisable, real and diverse London”.
The document was taken down after its contents were highlighted in the Mail on Sunday.
An official for the mayor said: “The photo caption was added by a staff member in error and doesn’t reflect the view of the mayor or the Greater London Authority. The document . . . is being reviewed to ensure the language and guidance is appropriate.”
Susan Hall, the Tory candidate to be mayor, called for an apology. She said: “All Londoners are real Londoners, no matter their ethnicity, and Sadiq Khan needs to apologise and stop these desperate, politically motivated attempts to divide people.”
The 2021 census showed London was the most ethnically diverse region of Britain with 46.2 per cent of residents identifying with Asian, black, mixed or “other” ethnic groups. White British residents accounted for 36.8 per cent of the population, with a further 17 per cent saying they were white ethnic minorities.
Worth reading in full.
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Would an all Caribbean Black or all South East Asian family group have been similarly labelled as not being diverse enough? Can we only show mixed-race families now?
Of course not, it’s only the White family that are ‘problematic’ to these racists, despite still being the largest single ethnic group in London.
Sorry, but London is ethnic majority!
“largest single ethnic group”
I think single is the operative word here
Fair enough
You can butter your bread both sides but it’s still bread!
Of course one could argue that the race grifters are quite keen, when it suits them, to lump everyone into two ethnicities – white and non-white. We know why they do this. E.g. “people of the global majority” means non-white people. Of course it’s incredibly patronising to non-white people, who are often prouder of their ethnicity than whites, and at least as if not more racist.
Excepted, and we’ll said
“people of the global majority” is a sinister phrase which I have come across only recently, in a job ad for a UK charity, which operates only in the UK. It’s a significant change from “we welcome applications from underrepresented minorities” – the implication is that there are more non-whites than whites on planet Earth, and we want a non-white for this job.
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Best I not say anything, then.
Very diplomatically put mate!
Maaate!
“A photograph of a young white family was said to not represent “real Londoners” by a member of Sadiq Khan’s staff”
Just visitors to their own capital then?
Passport and Papers for Whites & Infidels will be needed soon to visit or live there (once Londonistan secedes with Khan as Caliph).
They look like a real middle class metropolitan liberal family to me, could be Hampstead-dwellers.
Islington?
Full of ‘em
Then quite a few who want to get away from the non white people move into the Home Counties and start voting Green and Lib Dem
My white family ,daughter her husband and two children live in London. A lot like the photo. So white peoples not welcome by the Mayor of London and his staff.
He wants to blame this racism against white families on his staff. But he set their agenda and tone. They did it because he empowered his staffs racism otherwise they wouldn’t have been so blatant.
Sadiq Kahn has to resign because he has made white families racially rejected in what is possible their country that many generations of ancestors came from and is their origin. My family and many will know this is a threat to safety he has set a dangerous path.
A conservative mayor would resign for far less. Pressure from parliament has to be brought to bare!! The buck stops with him.
My family are hardworking kind and loving people. They have to be represented by someone who is not racist against them.
It’s a not so discrete nod and a wink towards his voter base, whilst making sure it’s not directly attributable to him. Similar ‘oopsie’ moments like this happen from time to time.
Yes but we know for certain now his agenda.
He has nudged it nearer and nearer and nearer to the red line, bit by bit to measure how much nice people will put up with!
He and his staff have become too comfortable in their prejudices, through as you say correctly’nods’ and have over played their hand.
I expect to see a robust response but checking conservative MPs media posts, wilderness prevails.
Cowards so far as usual.
If the Major gets away it. ? Milestone in history for the end of tolerance towards the families represented in that deliberate photo.
And his staff did it because they know it!
I don’t think he has overplayed his hand at all. The fuss will have died down by the end of today and the MSM (those that even bother to acknowledge it at all) will have it memory-holed by tomorrow.
Perhaps then it is worse than I imagined.
I wonder at what point that is ? What is the end game for him. I think it best my family consider safe options. Thx
Just imagine a politician who’s also member of the 53.8% of Londoners who form the global minority stating that a black family wouldn’t represent real Londoners, maybe as in Where did they originally came from? That would certainly lead to very loud and ultimatively successful calls for an immediate defenestration.
Considering An official for the mayor said: “The photo caption was added by a staff member in error and doesn’t reflect the view of the mayor or the Greater London Authority, Khan must now obviously resign as he’s demonstrably not sufficiently in control of his staff to prevent such errors by making it clear to them that they must not happen and he’s the one who’s politically responsible for this. If he doesn’t, this amounts to the tacit admission that the mayor is perfectly happy with employing people who think in this way provided they’re clever enough to avoid being caught.
That picture….they are obviously NOT Londoners. They seem too well-adjusted, traditional and happy.
They’ve come into town from one or other of the provinces on a day out.
I hope the ethnic minority whites in London can expect to receive favoured treatment from Khan.
Let’s face it ! Khant has been installed to annoy us on purpose by all political parties who we know are instructed from afar ! He’s working to a script & he’s running again so standby for another 4 years of the greasy toad faced Chunt !!!…
Good morning And yes because he is frighteningly running again, coupled with these blatant racist ‘nods’ to electorate that will secure another win; including paying scientists for favourable expensive ‘UZLESS’ conclusions, which he then lied to the public about. Theft from UZ.
But given this obvious opportunity to hold him to account for these unacceptable acts in public office, those in authority including parliament MPs, government and big media are doing nothing about him!!! And have willingly decided he can ruin our capital city and public harmony for another five years.
So my sad conclusion is that all those mentioned above are his cowardly dishonourable accomplices
Good morning , these Mayors that have crept in just deflect & dilute civil service policies into smaller segments around the country ! If their crumby mantras were unleashed as blanket government coverage across the UK in one go there would be more public push back !
Yes that must be so. I have just seen that the government could legally block UZLEZ as there is legislation acts in place to facilitate a challenge.
That means the C Gov and cabinet members are in support of this.
as you say deflecting.
Is Khan best described as a slime ball or a scrote?
TV advertising use the same tactics. They are determined that in ads many times the wife should be white and the husband black or vice versa. There are way more black people in TV ads than are representative of the country. They will be doing this for a number of reasons. —(1) ESG points (2) Hoping to sell their products to minorities. (3) Making sure no one can call them racist etc etc.