Labour bid to banish Churchill and Nelson from street names

DOWNING Street is drawing fresh battle lines in the woke wars by passing laws to stop British heroes being erased from street names.

It comes as the Labour administration in Wales plans to rename roads and buildings honouring Winston Churchill and Horatio Nelson.

An ‘anti-racist Wales action plan’ published by First Minister Mark Drakeford, which pledges to ‘decolonise our public spaces’, has raised the possibility of changing addresses such as Caerphilly’s Churchill Park.

An audit says the Second World War leader was ‘widely hated in South Wales mining communities’.

It adds he ‘expressed a belief in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race and was opposed to dismantling the British Empire’.

Meanwhile Lord Nelson, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, wrote to his wife saying he would ‘die a firm friend of our colonial system’.

Even Gandhi, the anti-colonial leader of the Indian independence movement, is under scrutiny for saying whites were degrading Hindus and Muslims ‘to a level of Kaffir’ – a highly insulting term for black Africans. Other figures singled out include ex-Prime Minister William Gladstone and explorer Sir Francis Drake.

But provisions in the new Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will ensure a street south of the Border cannot be renamed without twothirds of residents agreeing to it.

A source in the Westminster Government said: ‘This is exactly the sort of woke nonsense which would apply across the country if Labour managed to control more than just Wales. That is why we are giving people the power to stop it in England. Apart from anything else, it is extremely disruptive to change postal addresses’.

In 2020 Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan set up a commission to ensure ‘landmarks suitably reflect London’s achievements and diversity’. In the same year, Parliament Square’s Churchill statue was daubed with the word ‘racist’ by Black Lives Matter protesters.