Angry Londoners have daubed the name of their street sign black after Haringey council renamed Black Boy Lane due to racist connotations.
Posting a photograph of the controversial street sign to Twitter, the leader of Haringey council Peray Ahmet denounced it as mindless vandalism.
She said that she was sad and disappointed to have been sent this and that this followed a fantastic launch where they celebrated the life and legacy of John La Rose, and what could this ever achieve beyond mindless vandalism?
It’s claimed the authority spent a whopping £180,000 altering the name of Tottenham’s Black Boy Lane to La Rose Lane, following anger from Black Lives Matter campaigners, but heritage campaigners and upset residents, some of whom erected their own Black Boy lane signs, were disappointed with the move.
After the new street signs were pitched, pictures appeared on social media displaying multiple homes with the old road sign displayed in their windows.
Art lecturer Rishi Jogoo, 68, lives along the street and was disturbed by the modification, and he joined his neighbours and put up a Black Boy Lane street sign in his window.
He said that there was nothing racist about the name, and he didn’t understand why people were saying that it was and that the council never came to talk to them about it. They didn’t even receive a letter, but when they argued about it they didn’t listen to them.
He said that the issue was that when a street name is changed all your documents like passports have to be altered as well, which was extremely problematic, and he said that the council have said that they would offer everyone £300 because of the change but he didn’t believe that would be enough to sort everything.
He said they will keep their signs up but he wasn’t optimistic that they would listen but that they could always hope.
Mr Jogoo’s neighbour Ian also put up a sign, and he explained that they were hanging the old sign up because they didn’t want it to change and that it was a total waste of time and money.
He said that he would keep his address as it is until there’s an official issue because he wants to use it as long as he can.
Ian said that he worries about how the new name will affect his neighbours.
Well done to these residents because the sad council wokism has gone too far, and we live in dangerous times with all this wokism taking over, and it was a total waste of public money, especially as they listed the previous name underneath the new one, so there was absolutely no point in altering the name as it’s still there for all to see.
It’s truly shameful that the council splurged taxpayers’ money on this frivolous name change to pander to woke ideology, and most people are sick to the back teeth of all this woke stupidity – our country has been deliberately ruined.
What’s even more insulting is the enormous expense of the new sign, bet taxpayers are delighted.
The money could have been better spent pitching a sign explaining the history behind the name of the street.
Rather than being mindless vandalism as it’s being called, it’s more like mindful vandalism, extremely calculated, with an amazing purpose. Councils should recognise that they’re supposed to serve those living in their area, not bully them so that they can impose their own views.
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