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We already have,for all of our lives, at least those of us in the UK.Do we want to live in the kind of society gives visible public recognition to despicable characters?
We already have,for all of our lives, at least those of us in the UK.Do we want to live in the kind of society gives visible public recognition to despicable characters?
Do we want to live in the kind of society gives visible public recognition to despicable characters?
1710-1713. Your new party leader might prefer consolidating his position at the HoC before ridiculing himself.Has any Labour MP yet pointed out in Parliament that slaver Edward Colston was a Tory MP?
This was until 1713. Your new party leader might prefer consolidating his position at the HoC before ridiculing himself.
Tony, I am not sure every MP (of any party, and also the greenhorns) should be held accountable for anything that ever happened in the UK (republic or whatver it was) since its creation - I guess this was fairly long ago - and having to document him/herself about all this beforehand. That would be a lot of work wouldn't it, why not let the guys get their Brexit through first, and possibly without ****ing up your country even more during the process.Why? Whist we are re-evaluating the legitimacy of our historic monuments and institutions why should we not shine a bright light on the archaic elitist entity that is the Tory Party? It is all part of our history and events such as Windrush, Grenfell, the ‘Hostile Environment’ etc prove it is not all in the distant past either. Lloyds Of London and Green King have recently apologised and made pledges to address their past misdeads (Guardian), so why not the Conservative Party?
It is all part of our history and events such as Windrush, Grenfell, the ‘Hostile Environment’ etc prove it is not all in the distant past either.
The only way I can see to properly acknowledge the sins of our past is to include it in the school curriculum as I'm sure that the Germans do with their recent past.
This current chest beating and shirt tearing is all very well but it will die down. The only way I can see to properly acknowledge the sins of our past is to include it in the school curriculum as I'm sure that the Germans do with their recent past. It's time we caught up with them.
There is talk of pulling down statues in Newcastle of William George Armstrong. On the one hand he built ships and armaments for who ever would buy them and on the other he contributed to building the RVI hospital and Newcastle University.For clarity that is all I’m asking. I just want to see the ugly revisionist bubble of English exceptionalism popped and the unvarnished honest truth be taught. This obviously includes understanding what institutions profited or owe their existence to the slave trade. I’m absolutely not arguing anything needs knocking down, as that would mean demolishing much amazing architecture, scientific institutions, art galleries, museums etc. As I’ve argued above slave-trade=UK infrastructure. It bought the country we live in today. I just hope the days of trying to brush this indisputable fact under the carpet are now over. We need to face it in exactly the same way the Germans need to face the Nazi death camps etc. Learn from it, don’t hide it.
Leave the statues, but document them accurately. Something like: ‘Edward Colston: Slave trader, Tory MP and philanthropist. Coleston’s human trafficking forcefully removed 100,000 people from their homeland and 20,000 died in his custody. He represented the Tory Party between (dates) and used his wealth to fund the following institutions (list)’. Who could logically argue with that?
There is talk of pulling down statues in Newcastle of William George Armstrong. On the one hand he built ships and armaments for who ever would buy them and on the other he contributed to building the RVI hospital and Newcastle University.
http://www.philanthropynortheast.com/the-philanthropists/armstrong-baron-william-george
There is talk of pulling down statues in Newcastle of William George Armstrong. On the one hand he built ships and armaments for who ever would buy them and on the other he contributed to building the RVI hospital and Newcastle University.
http://www.philanthropynortheast.com/the-philanthropists/armstrong-baron-william-george
Show ‘the talk‘.There is talk of pulling down statues in Newcastle of William George Armstrong. On the one hand he built ships and armaments for who ever would buy them and on the other he contributed to building the RVI hospital and Newcastle University.
http://www.philanthropynortheast.com/the-philanthropists/armstrong-baron-william-george
Armstrong owned Bamburgh castle, the family still own it, they are now farmers.Didn't he also have something to do with that rather splendid castle up on the Northumberland coast?
Good to see the link between the cruelty and exploitation by the higher orders and their own obsessive opulence and ultimate declineArmstrong owned Bamburgh castle, the family still own it, they are now farmers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bam...i57j46j0l5.10402j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
He built Cragside in Northumberland, now National Trust and well worth a visit.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cragside
From memory he made the fortune and the next two generations spent most of it on good living/wives and divorce.
Students trying to make a gesture to show their concern about slavery. Sadly, they are suffering an inflated sense of self importance, they have no understanding of the history of the city of Newcastle and they actually aren't concerned about slavery given their support of child labour due to their general attitude toward consumerism. Hypocrites, really.There is talk of pulling down statues in Newcastle of William George Armstrong. On the one hand he built ships and armaments for who ever would buy them and on the other he contributed to building the RVI hospital and Newcastle University.
http://www.philanthropynortheast.com/the-philanthropists/armstrong-baron-william-george