Is no statue safe?

[Beach Seagull]

I'm just baffled by the notion of you wanting people who throw nazi salutes at Tommy Robinson rallies, to protect statutes of people who fought the nazis.

Be 'baffled' all you like, I don't give a sh%t who defends our statues as long as someone does, so if a load of sandal wearing bearded guardian readers want to rock up armed with bags of quinoa and flasks of fairtrade coffee to use as weapons to repel the 'protesters' I'm in support of them.

 

[Springal]

Be 'baffled' all you like, I don't give a sh%t who defends our statues as long as someone does, so if a load of sandal wearing bearded guardian readers want to rock up armed with bags of quinoa and flasks of fairtrade coffee to use as weapons to repel the 'protesters' I'm in support of them.

You're more bothered by sandal wearing bearded guardian readers than nazis? Sounds like you are exactly the kind of person Churchill & our grandparents helped us defeat. Take it easy

 

[Beach Seagull]

You're more bothered by sandal wearing bearded guardian readers than nazis? Sounds like you are exactly the kind of person Churchill & our grandparents helped us defeat. Take it easy

Where did I say I was 'bothered' ?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Be 'baffled' all you like, I don't give a sh%t who defends our statues as long as someone does, so if a load of sandal wearing bearded guardian readers want to rock up armed with bags of quinoa and flasks of fairtrade coffee to use as weapons to repel the 'protesters' I'm in support of them.

Then you'll be glad to know Sadiq Khan has protected them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53020306

 

[Beach Seagull]

A small minority of trouble makers - grow up.

ah yes the 'small minority' defence much beloved of the BBC and the Guardian. Well Dominic Cummings is a 'small minority' of the population but that didn't stop the smug left going to town on him did it.

 

[Beach Seagull]

Then you'll be glad to know Sadiq Khan has protected them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53020306

Good. Maybe the 'protesters' will move onto the electrical stores and sports shops as they must be due an upgrade as many have had the same TV since 2011 when they last 'protested'.

 

[Eddiespearritt]

Someone else flippantly mentioned the flattening of the pyramids (built by slaves), how about a bit closer to home Stonehenge. I'm guessing it wasn't a gang of YTS students that dragged some of those Bluestones 200 miles...

In all seriousness though I can't make my mind up about the whitewashing (pun intended) of history. You can find offence in probably every person who is ever put up to have a statue made of them, maybe not always on the grounds if racism, but other equally valid reasons Dame Maggie of Grantham for starters...

As a further aside, will all those whose statues are now being ripped down have their titles removed.

Will families whose ancestors built their wealth from the slave trade and other dubious means have their country homes, estates and bank accounts raided?

Where does it end?

I'm with you. I know that I'm supposed to be outraged about everything, now and into the future. But I can't focus carefully enough on what I should be outraged about most.
Just things that affect me personally, or those that have affected millions throughout history ? And that the consequences of those bad things in history should not have time limits, ever.

Good things: The NHS - Tony Bloom - and probably Captain Tom.

Bad things: Everything else - especially statues, Rolf Harris, genocide, corrupt white people, corrupt black people, corrupt brown people. The banning of flasks, and the fact that hundreds are still dying every day in the UK from coronavirus, when apparently nobody died at all in Vietnam. And soon footballers will be complaining about having to play twice a week for their money in order to complete the season, this will really outrage me.

Let's keep it simple - just keep all statues of anyone who never did anything wrong or represented anything bad (or anything now defined as dreadful).

 

[keaton]

ah yes the 'small minority' defence much beloved of the BBC and the Guardian. Well Dominic Cummings is a 'small minority' of the population but that didn't stop the smug left going to town on him did it.

Your definition of smug left includes the Daily Mail and Telegraph who also criticised him

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

is there a competition now ? I think Ratko Mladić might make the quarter finals. You may be tipping an all black final, but I think Johannes Strijdom might just give Mugabe a run for his money...

His post was racist and I've put him on ignore. Can't believe a bloke younger than me sounds like some silly old man who thinks the bloke in the corner shop is going to put him in a big pot and cook him for dinner

Edit :if you want to play mass murdered Top Trumps it looks a bit weird starting the game with all the white cards taken out of the pack.

 

[Palacefinder General]

ah yes the 'small minority' defence much beloved of the BBC and the Guardian. Well Dominic Cummings is a 'small minority' of the population but that didn't stop the smug left going to town on him did it.

You obviously spend a lot of time reading The Guardian seeing as you know so much about its content. I'm utterly opposed to everything you stand for and I think the last time I read a Guardian article, either online or in print, was about six years ago. What’s with the obsession, fella?

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Then you'll be glad to know Sadiq Khan has protected them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53020306

Right on !
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...r-protests-churchill-statue-boarded-targeted/
regards
DF

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

https://twitter.com/ABridgen
regards
DF

 

[Beach Seagull]

You obviously spend a lot of time reading The Guardian seeing as you know so much about its content. I'm utterly opposed to everything you stand for and I think the last time I read a Guardian article, either online or in print, was about six years ago. What’s with the obsession, fella?

I read the Guardian and the Daily Mail as i let to get both views. How does that make me 'obsessed'?

 

[Beach Seagull]

I wonder how many of the 4 brave souls who mugged my nephew and his 2 friends at knifepoint in November 2018 in Bristol for their wallets, concert tickets and phones were at the BLM protests in Bristol last Sunday.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I wonder how many of the 4 brave souls who mugged my nephew and his 2 friends at knifepoint in November 2018 in Bristol for their wallets, concert tickets and phones were at the BLM protests in Bristol last Sunday.

Why would they have been?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Right on !
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...r-protests-churchill-statue-boarded-targeted/
regards
DF

So do they need to be protected or not? You seemed pretty sure the other day they were in dire danger.

 

[Beach Seagull]

Why would they have been?

I merely 'wondered' I didn't say they would 'have been.'

 

[Guinness Boy]

I merely 'wondered' I didn't say they would 'have been.'

Why did you wonder that?

 

[Beach Seagull]

Why did you wonder that?

Because it was a major event in Bristol.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Because it was a major event in Bristol.

I think they'd probably be busy mugging people don't you?