Sadiq Khan: There are too many "white men" on Transport for London

Agreed, time will tell.

I too hope he isn't like Rahman, and there isn't any evidence that he is corrupt so far to be fair.

Identity politics

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Why? Can't we like, focus on welfare of individuals instead? Like making it safer to go out at night?

There's no evidence he is corrupt but he has a history of associating with intolerance and fundamentalists.

I'm all for white flight in London if it means less demand for property in London and thus lower property prices. Sadiq Khan for Prime Minister!

No, I have no evidence of that. I only have the fact that there is 16 members and they are all white it doesn't say anything about how they were picked, what the selection process was or what they have done in the job.

Even if it were done on colour of skin which is completely ridiculous it would be 2 none white board members out of 16 for it to be representative of the U.K. Population as only 12% of people aren't white


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Khan hasn't started very well has he?

Sacking people on the basis of the colour of their skin would be considered racist in anything but the looking glass world of left wing London, Labour politics...

Let's see who he DOES give all the plum jobs too, all the juicy contracts. If not qualified white people, already doing a good job, who? We saw with Lutfur Rahman how easy it is for a determined local politician to get away for years with "jobs for the boys" and rank financial corruption in our system of local government.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33430696

There's no evidence he is corrupt but he has a history of associating with intolerance and fundamentalists.

Dear lord.


I'll try and word this clearly.

If a wealth of research highlights that minority group members face barriers in the workplace, do you think that one person going against the odds disproves the entire basis? Many others face such barriers, but because one was resilient, that one instance disproves all those who do face barriers?

This is such a common comment on here and it's just so ignorant. I always get such a response when I explain how children from poor backgrounds face disadvantages. You always get that one person who brings up a case of an entrepreneur who was raised in a council estate. People need to learn the difference between statistics and a single instance/ anecdote.

Are you muslim?

Except he hasn't sacked anyone.
Hi first act as Mayor was to attend a Holocaust Memorial service but what an awful man he is.
Then he talked about how Labour needed to look outwards, to work and talk with businesses and conservative voters rather than just appealing to activists.
His first policy announcement as mayor was to announce an effective cut in bus fares allowing 2 for 1 journeys.
At this rate London will have Sharia Law in days...

Truly awful man and a horrific start. If only we had Zac Goldsmith and his dog whistle politics..

.....as a human rights lawyer.
Deary me. What next, should we demonise all criminal lawyers for fraternizing with criminals?

I hold no brief for Zac Goldsmith who was no better a candidate than Khan. I don't live in London, but wouldn't have voted for either of them.

To the highlighted point, he hasn't sacked anyone YET. Give him a chance he has only been in post a couple of days...

But the OP referred to this speech:

London's transport authority is far too dominated by white men, Labour's mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan said today.There are currently 13 white men on the Transport for London board and just three women. Khan said he would ensure the board better reflected the "diversity" of Londoners if he becomes mayor."I will reshape TfL's board," he said during a speech in Brixton this morning."It needs to better reflect London's diversity in the interest of Londoners. Did you know there are 16 people on the board of TfL?"Thirteen of them are white men. Thirteen. Think about it . It only has three women on it. That's less than one in five. "

How is he going to "reshape" the board if he doesn't sack these insufficiently diverse people? He wants his own lackies in pronto, so I doubt he will wait for them all to retire.

And why is he doing it? Does he say they are bad at their job of overseeing Transport for London?

Oh no! It is because they are guilty of the heinous crime of being white and male...

I thought a lawyer would be slightly more meticulous in the analysis of a simple statement. Thanks for making the assumption I'm demonising him by pointing out a fact.

I wasn't alluding to who he represented as a lawyer.

as much as I agree that most people are not Islamophobes, the cynic in me cannot believe this

well surely that is your own problem which you have to work through?

So who are you talking about? Which dangerous extremists has he represented or endorsed? Which fundamentalists has he 'tolerated'? (Whatever that means)

Or are you going to follow Zac Goldsmith's dog whistle and point out the fact that he once was in the same tesco supermarket at the same time as someone who's third cousin is rumored to support Isis?

Well lets wait until or if he actually does it before getting our knickers in a twist.
Personally i'm more interested in him sorting out rising transport and housing costs and he's already made a good start with the former.

More represenative of london not UK....