Why Tooting Broadway? Of all the places in London, why would David Cameron choose this decaying corner of South London to launch his new agenda? It is in the public memory thanks to the opening credits of Citizen Smith, where Wolfie Smith started out shouting “power to the people”. And just a few yards away, the man introduced by Francis Maude as “Britain’s next elected Prime Minister” stood to give us his thoughts.
Inside the hall (from where I am blogging), almost everyone is white. Outside, almost no one is. I was actually approached in the street when I walked past, by an usher who reasonably deduced that white people in suits were lost journalists. If anything, Tooting Broadway seems less mixed than when I lived in one of its grottier estates ten years ago.
Anyway, the more the Conservatives talk about ethnic diversity, the more their own lack of it sticks out.
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