Oh dear. This week an awkward interview of Zac Goldsmith attending the Asian Awards has been doing the rounds on social media. In this, the Tory mayoral hopeful tells an interviewer at the event that he is a big Bollywood fan. Alas when pressed, he isn’t able to name a single Bollywood film or actor. While Goldsmith has since been ridiculed for his insincere answer, Paul Sagoo — the founder of the Asian Awards — has just published a blog post on why the incident demonstrates that Goldsmith ought not to be mayor.
In this, Sagoo says that he had told both Khan and Goldsmith’s campaign teams that their candidate could attend on two conditions:
‘I said exactly the same thing to both of them that should they attend they must do the following
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Be sincere to the awards and not use the opportunity to overly self-promote
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Do their research on the event, the attendees and the winners’
While he was happy with the behaviour of both candidates on the day of the awards, he changed his tune on seeing the Bollywood interview.
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