The Tory candidate hasn't made a good start.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham...rote-that-good
By the standards of comments revealed last week, this isn't too bad.
The Tory response to this, seems to be waffling something about Sadiq Khan and crime, usually including the words "get a grip". In fairness though, they've finessed the plan and they think Khan should be "getting a grip" on the construction of Crossrail too.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham...rote-that-good
Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has been criticised for a series of controversial comments he made when he was a youth worker in North Kensington in 2005.
Among the remarks unearthed by BuzzFeed News are claims that “good looking” girls in the area “tend to have been around” and that “poor people” require “rules” and “direction” or else they will turn to crime.
Labour said the comments were “appalling sexism and misogyny” and showed that Bailey’s “attitudes to women and people living in poverty” are “absolutely vile”.
But Bailey’s campaign team told BuzzFeed News they reflected what he had seen as a youth worker in Ladbroke Grove, one of the most deprived areas of London. They said these were the “blunt words” of someone “who hasn’t figured it all out” but wanted to make a contribution to society by offering his experiences, “however raw they might seem now”.
Among the remarks unearthed by BuzzFeed News are claims that “good looking” girls in the area “tend to have been around” and that “poor people” require “rules” and “direction” or else they will turn to crime.
Labour said the comments were “appalling sexism and misogyny” and showed that Bailey’s “attitudes to women and people living in poverty” are “absolutely vile”.
But Bailey’s campaign team told BuzzFeed News they reflected what he had seen as a youth worker in Ladbroke Grove, one of the most deprived areas of London. They said these were the “blunt words” of someone “who hasn’t figured it all out” but wanted to make a contribution to society by offering his experiences, “however raw they might seem now”.
Multiculturalism 'robs Britain of its community' - Tory London mayor pick
Accommodating Muslims and Hindus risks turning UK into ‘crime-riddled cesspool’, Shaun Bailey wrote in 2005
Accommodating Muslims and Hindus “robs Britain of its community” and risks turning the country into a “crime-riddled cesspool” as a result, the Conservative candidate for London mayor declared in a thinktank pamphlet he wrote a decade ago.
In it, Shaun Bailey voiced concern about the marking of Muslim and Hindu festivals, claimed that children were being taught more about Diwali than Christmas and argued Britain “removing the religion that British people generally take to” had allowed immigrants to bring their country’s cultural problems with them.
In his No Man’s Land pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies (pdf), about the problems faced by inner-city youth, Bailey also appeared to confuse Hindi speakers with the Hindu religion.
“You bring your children to school and they learn far more about Diwali than Christmas. I speak to the people who are from Brent and they’ve been having Muslim and Hindi days off. What it does is rob Britain of its community. Without our community we slip into a crime-riddled cesspool,” Bailey wrote in 2005.
Accommodating Muslims and Hindus risks turning UK into ‘crime-riddled cesspool’, Shaun Bailey wrote in 2005
Accommodating Muslims and Hindus “robs Britain of its community” and risks turning the country into a “crime-riddled cesspool” as a result, the Conservative candidate for London mayor declared in a thinktank pamphlet he wrote a decade ago.
In it, Shaun Bailey voiced concern about the marking of Muslim and Hindu festivals, claimed that children were being taught more about Diwali than Christmas and argued Britain “removing the religion that British people generally take to” had allowed immigrants to bring their country’s cultural problems with them.
In his No Man’s Land pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies (pdf), about the problems faced by inner-city youth, Bailey also appeared to confuse Hindi speakers with the Hindu religion.
“You bring your children to school and they learn far more about Diwali than Christmas. I speak to the people who are from Brent and they’ve been having Muslim and Hindi days off. What it does is rob Britain of its community. Without our community we slip into a crime-riddled cesspool,” Bailey wrote in 2005.
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