STEPHEN GLOVER: Welcome to Common Sense Street! What the locals who saved their historic street signs tell us about the gulf between the ruling elite and the rest of us.
- Sheffield residents put their foot down against the renaming of streets and pubs
- City's Gladstone Road, Peel Street and pubs named after Nelson will not change
- Council spokesman confirmed they will also not remove any of the city's statues
The good people of Sheffield have had enough. They don’t want streets to be renamed in a woke rewriting of history.
The city council, where Lib Dems, Labour and Greens rule the roost, was nervous about associations between street names and alleged imperial rotters. I stress the word ‘alleged’.
Should Gladstone Street be redesignated? The 19th-century prime minister and Liberal leader was the most determined opponent of slavery imaginable, calling it ‘the foulest crime’. He wasn’t over-keen on the Empire, either. Mail.
