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Doncaster Mayor Peter Davies
Mayor who cut funding for Pride praises Taliban
Peter Davies, the mayor of Doncaster, whose controversial policies include banning the word 'diversity' from council papers and cutting funding for the town's annual Pride event and Black History Month, has spoken of his admiration for the Taliban's "ordered system of family life".
The English Democrat, who was elected to the post in June, said that social policies which disregarded the importance of the traditional family had "created mayhem" in
"We in this country have created mayhem through lax social policies of disregard for marriage and the family and we have created mayhem in society," he said, adding:
"The one thing to be said about the Taliban is that they do have an ordered system of some sort and that they don't have hundreds of cases of children under threat of abuse from violent parents, as we have in
The former teacher, who has made it his personal mission to rid
He was later forced to back down after admitting in a radio interview that he had no idea how much revenue the event created for the area.
He later defended his remarks, insisting they were merely "hyperbole" to make a point about the way the welfare system failed to support the family, and said that he "detested" the Taliban, but added: "The point I was making was that even a regime as hideous as the Taliban at least appears to have some sort of decent family affairs. In fact probably... they have an ordered society."
