The clear majority was not for the demolition of the statue.
Piss poor. I'm surprised you would come out with shite like that.
That’s exactly what is going to happen. Now watch which politicians, commentators and social media personalities give cover to it. I can guarantee one thing- they will be indistinguishable from those who drove Brexit.I think this issue is a very interesting opportunity for a re-emergence of an EDL type counter protest movement...
On the other hand, if this is your "somewhere nasty" then it's not really that troubling is it? Other statues - and progressive monuments are already subject to right wing vandalism - and some old sitcoms? This is real pearl-clutching stuff Brian.
What’s fascinating is that one of the most vociferous Brexit supporters on pfm turns up to express outrage that the statue of a white slaver is taken down, yet when Grenfell Tower went up with seventy odd people burned to death in it, nothing, radio silence.
Do you feel your culture is under threat?
Conventional wisdom has it that the 'clear majority' of Brexit voters was not in favour of 'no deal'. What you vote for and what you get rarely seem to align, do they?
Once you invent The Will Of The People and The Enemies Of The People, who knows where it can end?
I think there is actually an education opportunity here. Keep the statues, explain the bigger picture. Weigh up the pros and cons of each individual. For BP and the Scouts I'd say that the benefits he gave to generations of young people outweighs his homophobic, far right and racist views. You DO have to put these views in their historical context. Otherwise where do you stop? No right thinking person would use the N word today and the P word is happily going the same way, but it's not reasonable to go back to 1970 and find someone guilty of offensive racist behaviour for using those words when they were in common parlance and *in the context of the time* more acceptable. I'm not condoning anyone's behaviour in this, but context is all. Between 1939 and 1945 men went out and shot other men dead. Civilians too. We don't now judge them for murder. We can regret what happened, but we have to look at the bigger picture and through the lens of what was then normal and acceptable. As Tony says we can repair a few statues. It's only a bit of bronze. A skilled worker with an oxy acetylene torch and a bronze filler rod can sort that out in an afternoon. Then get them stood up again, and explain the person in the round, for good or ill. We all cheered when Saddam went down, and nobody is saying that we should put Hitler and Stalin back out there, but they have to be given their place in history.
