Interesting.

[royfromaus]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-race-row-ulez-b2396160.html

[andy-hughes]

Your link is behind a pay wall.

[bhg481]

andy - I could read it and I don't subscribe.

[Bobbisox1]

I wish there were some ‘real ‘ East Enders ’ on here to put that little squirt right :0)

[Bobbisox1]

I could read it too

[barry1010]

Sadiq Khan was forced to distance himself from a claim on his website that a picture of a young white family “does not represent real Londoners”.

The Labour London mayor was criticised over the message, which appeared as part of a guide to his and the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) brand.

The guide opened with the words: “A City For All Londoners”, and promised to appeal to all ages, genders, sexual orientations and family make-ups.

But a picture of a couple and their two children walking along the Thames, with parliament in the background, was highlighted as an example of pictures not to use. A label on the picture read: “Doesn’t represent real Londoners”.

Mr Khan said the caption was added by a staff member “in error”, and does not reflect his view or the view of the GLA.

[bhg481]

Perhaps they should have used a picture of the Cray twins.

[Canary42]

... or even the Kray twins

[andy-hughes]

Strange - I re-clicked, and was able to read the piece without subscribing.

I can see Mr Khan's point - an image of a 'nuclear family', white with 2.4 children, is not representative, and it has rightly been removed.

How do these people become employed?

[douglas9401]

Then there WOULD be something fishy going on.

[bhg481]

Canary - quite right. In my programming days I used several Cray computers and the spelling stuck.

[douglas9401]

"How do these people become employed?"

If you have to ask you're not tinted enough.

[andy-hughes]

Douglas - That's an unpleasant attitude.

[ToraToraTora]

bhg what language did you use on the Cray?

[smurfchops]

Horrible little man. Let’s have a new London Mayor please.

[Gromit]

Labour will still manage to feck it up between now and the General election.

[douglas9401]

"Douglas - That's an unpleasant attitude."

So is 'No whites, no dogs, no Irish', the sentiment contained in those few short words on a Post-It and no amount of backslashed airy-fairy nonsense will change that wee nugget.

I'm sure someone will give it a go though.

[andy-hughes]

Douglas - I have no idea what you are talking about.

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah, that was on the BBC site too. Maybe white folk are a minute minority in London, or maybe khan is racist, or maybe for political reasons wishes to appear so. I'd have thought his zero sense policy would have given him more than enough issues to overcome already without adding more.

[Old_Geezer]

Apologies, skimmed it in my woman's newspaper, not the BBC.

[bhg481]

TTT - a bit of CAL but mainly FORTRAN. I was involved with translating old codes written in our own version of FORTRAN to take advantage of the parallel option. I worked very closely with another programmer and we became known as the Cray Twins.