Their action was condemned by the Labour peer Meghnad Desai, chairman of the Gandhi Memorial Trust which raised the funds for the statue. Crowds were expected to gather in front of the statue of Mandela in Parliament Square, which happens to be situated to the right of Gandhi’s statue. The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has set up a “Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm” which will recommend which statues in London should be removed. If he is serious, objections can be raised in theory to the vast majority of statues in London. The Black Lives Matter movement is now starting to resemble a tiger that has tasted human blood.

Source: The Telegraph June 09, 2020 21:00 UTC