This morning.
Parliament Square, Westminster, London, UK.
Workers have boarded up a statue of Sir Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph ahead of weekend protests.
Black Lives Matter: Winston Churchill monument and Cenotaph boarded up as more statues removed (Sky)
Meanwhile…
CHURCHILL HAS GONE: this is so wrong wrong wrong on every level. Please @BorisJohnson @SadiqKhan bring the greatest Briton back to the home of democracy NOW pic.twitter.com/ReL4UYUwhb
— Richard Tice (@TiceRichard) June 12, 2020
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Kudos for the headline
Ta, Ouch.
This behaviour is the best possible recruitment tool real racists could dream of. Watch during the summer as their support surges when the population becomes increasingly polarised.
Exactly! They are handing more power over to right wing populists who will love making this their key campaign issue. The modern left is getting dumber and more hysterical. I consider myself Left on almost everything, but this Puritan rage will have terrible effects on Politics and new leadership. [Slow hand clap]
It’s hilarious you guys think the inevitable racist backlash will come over the less celebrated historical facts about a figure repreesented by a statue being discussed and argued over. No, no, that’s much too important and substantial an issue. The backlash will be centred on something like, say, a single episode of a beloved old sitcom being taken down unprompted by some anonymous TV exec, and it will be loud and red-faced and spittle-flecked and monstrously gammony and there will be ranting about the impending fall of all civilisation at the hands of hordes of woke taliban antifa BLM brutes and savages.
White people make everything about them. They just can’t help it.
#WhitePrivilegeMatters
*eye roll*
+1
I am looking forward to the removal of lots of symbols of oppression. If you think we should keep the statues as reminders of sins of the past, let’s replace the statues with ones depicting the evil ones in less flattering poses, such as murdering their victims.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300033147/hamilton-city-council-takes-down-captain-hamilton-statue
hmmm….tidy up those seams, paint it black and you have a piece of art honouring Stanley Kubrick? (Monolith outof 2001 A Space Odyssey)
I like it
– also “Odyssey” – one of those spelling bee hard nuts
I presume they’ll be renaming the city and all other things across the city named Hamilton too, if the apparent offence is to be taken seriously like.
is there any truth to the rumour they’re replacing it with a monument to Jeremy Clarkson
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BLM have called off their protest.
I think it’s more the malls and shops that need to be worried. Some of the best dressed rioters… I mean, “peaceful protesters” in history going around these days.
The Right protecting public statues from being torn down by the Left. What a topsy turvey world we find ourselves in.
No mention that statues of Gandhi and Mandela have also been covered up? Doesn’t fit the narrative?
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/amp/londons-gandhi-mandela-churchill-statues-boarded-up-ahead-of-protests/1864231
Well that is even worse- it paints the ‘peaceful protesters’ as mindless vandals altogether.
Apparently a bust of a deceased Jamaican born poet had a caustic substance thrown over it , it seems to be becoming tit for tat .
“Home of democracy”?
Which home? Athens? The Althing?