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A leading figure in a campaign to topple Britain s statues is a hard-left fanatic who previously expressed scepticism around the Pfizer vaccine, his social media posts have revealed.
Toyin Agbetu, 53, joined Sadiq Khan s new diversity commission this week to help investigate whether to remove statues and road names of prominent historical figures connected to the slave trade.
Mr Agbetu was previously known for his 2007 outburst in front of the Queen in 2007, when he shouted you should be ashamed during a service at Westminster Abbey.
In November he posted online expressing scepticism about the Pfizer jab s ability to deal with the spread of coronavirus. He wrote: We are being encouraged to relax our compliance with these relaxed restrictions because apparently a magical vaccine is around the corner from the Viagra specialists.
PERHAPS for several understandable reasons the reality that 2020 has been a year of worldwide protest has been rather missing from the numerous media summaries of the last 12 months.
After all, a deadly pandemic has seized the world and led to illness and death, particularly in neoliberal economies that put profit ahead of people.
Yet protest there has been and its global nature has been dictated in part by lockdowns restricting to an extent physical protests.
Events like the killing of George Floyd in June by US police officers and the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol got not only worldwide coverage on an array of social media but also then sparked global protests.