Labour has quietly empowered activist councils to rename streets linked to slavery and the Empire without local consent. The Telegraph has the story.
The proposals were brought forward by the last Tory government to stop local authorities caving into campaigns by pressure groups.
Councils faced a slew of calls to rename streets linked to slave owners and the Empire following the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
Online campaigns led local authorities across the country to announce that they were reviewing all such road names in their area.
Michael Gove, the then Local Communities Secretary, responded with plans that would have made councils hold a referendum to change a street name. Under the proposals, published in 2022, they would have needed to secure support from two thirds of residents on a road to go ahead with renaming.
The revelation that Ms. Rayner has dropped the plans was contained in a report by the Policy Exchange think tank.
Lara Brown, its author, said: “The Labour Government has quietly dropped legislation which would have prevented activist councils from renaming streets over the heads of local residents.
“They claim they wish to end the culture wars, and yet they are pursuing the politics of division, prioritising a minority of campaigners over the views of the public.
“Policy Exchange’s History Matters Compendium shows that action continues to be taken widely and quickly to reframe how the past is presented.”
The decision will provide councils with fresh licence to rename streets that are seen as controversial because of their links to the Empire.
It will also mean that no fixed definition is established for what constitutes the “necessary support” councils must demonstrate to change road names.
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Not sure it’s much to rejoice about. Her replacement was Minister for Health & Covid Response.
I don’t want the New Zealand Labour Party to be popular, I want them to fail.
I want the people to show to those who want (and get) power that they have the capability to be very dangerous.
But, the people get the power freaks they deserve.
Indeed. I don’t know much about NZ politics but suspect the popularity boost is nothing to do with rejection of covid era madness or any kind of new dawn for freedom loving people – probably just they were a bit browned off with her and fancied a change. I will be interested to see what happens at the next election here in the UK – Tory support will collapse but a lot of that will go to other mainstream parties. I suspect not many DS readers will vote Tory but who knows?
The few clips I’ve heard if this fella – another ugly barsteward – he would give Hitler a run for his money. This one is off the scale Evil. I know it takes some believing.
“ I know it takes some believing.”
Well, these days my default assumption is that any political leader is pretty rotten until proven otherwise. So far I’ve not seen much to contradict that assumption.
My take is that, like Australia across the ditch, and in the UK, NZ have extreme left and slightly less extreme left. I don’t see anything to rejoice about.
Luxon is not conservative in any way.
Yup
The replacement is a lockdown fanatic and Covidiot and Preacher in the Church of Rona. He is just as bad if not worse than Horse Head. Undoubtedly the UberFuehrer will be rewarded by the retards in NZ with a crushing victory, the sheeple crying as they vote thanking the Rona Nazi for saving them.
At least Shergars teeth were put to good use
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I trust polls like this about as much as I would trust a Midazolam Matt home medication pack.
“A Midazolam Matt Home Medication Pack.”
Oh, that’s Class.
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A little snippet of what’s in store:
https://rumble.com/v26kh7s-january-21-2023.html
Oh please, celebrating one fascist exit with the entrance of another is no comfort. Hipkins threatened unjabbed with ‘we will hunt you down’ mantra. The message is the same, they just change the messenger. If anything, this is more affirmation that the status quo exists and that these..ahem.. ‘polls’ are tools to dupe the public at large that there is consensus. #TeamJames
This is probably just the sort of opinion poll bounce new leaders typically enjoy. Hipkins is every bit as evil and dangerous as Ardern but lacks the public relations skills she once had. I suspect his popularity will decline over the coming months.
By far the best political party in New Zealand is the Act Party, essentially a classical liberal party. Regrettably, its position on Covid has been disappointingly craven like a number of ‘libertarians’ in England whose principles crumbled when confronted with an infection risk. The National Party always governs from the centre and without a strong Act presence in government policy in New Zealand will drift leftwards.
So one authoritarian Covid Fascist is replaced with another one …… and the bullied, controlled, brainwashed NZ population indicates it will forgive and forget.
The idiots deserve what they get. As do the Canadians.
I hope the Brits are wiser (but I doubt it).
Any country stupid enough to vote for socialism deserves everything they get. Poor Kiwis, they were so admired.