Agent Cob Shows His Loyalty Too ....err Enyone But Britain, Again!

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-corbyn-would-give-british-museums-elgin-marbles-back-to-greece-11393330

[Zacs-Master]

What a plonker!

[Old_Geezer]

He obviously plans on remaining in opposition. He wants to beware; if the goverment messes up on Brexit he's in great danger of being elected and becoming PM. Still comments like this mean third parties could gain support. Unsure if that is worse if it means coalition.

[Zacs-Master]

‘Still comments like this mean third parties could gain support’
What, like the greens, you mean?

[Old_Geezer]

Anyone. Who knows, maybe even UKIP could hold the balance of power; especially if folk realised that the claim that they were only after a referendum and not true exit, is a myth and returned their support.

[gulliver1]

Ask him if he can give Boris Johnson back to America at the same time.

[Zacs-Master]

Your entering the rabbit hole now OG. Let’s keep it real, eh.

[Old_Geezer]

If the goverment messes up on Brexit, UKIP success at the ballot box seems far away from any rabbit holes. It'd be a wake up call.

[Togo]

Perhaps India will give us back our Railway system and civil service. Ours appear to be broken.

[Zacs-Master]

I thought we were apologising to India? Crikey, this is confusing.

[Zacs-Master]

OG, beware of vials labelled ‘drink me’.

[Buenchico]

JC simply seems to be agreeing with with what most other people think:
https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/return-parthenon-marbles

[gulliver1]

Good man , as long as it does not harm the tax payer, or the economy ,or me ,
then so what . what an unimportant post , waste of space YAWN.

[kvalidir]

I'm not sure why you feel that looted artifacts belong in the British Museum anyway TTT, doesn't exactly paint us in a good light us insisting on keeping them does it?

[Gromit]

They were looted.
Why keep them?

I can fly to Athens on EasyJet for £75 and see the Parthenon for real. It would be much more impressive to see the Marble statues in their proper location.

[dannyk13]

They have been fighting for the marbles to be returned for a long time.This from 1984,
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/04/weekinreview/q-a-melina-mercourt-greece-s-claim-to-the-elgin-marbles.html

[jackthehat]

Lord Elgin may have 'bought' them.....but it was a pretty underhand purchase. I used to be in the 'They're ours!' camp but now can't see quite why we can't hand them back.

There is sufficient technology around to make exact replicas for us to continue to display and to be enjoyed....

[Kromovaracun]

Not that I think it's terribly important, but they seem to have a pretty valid claim to them. Not very convinced that makes me "anti-British."

Your views are veering very close to "my country, right or wrong" 3T. That's a profoundly dangerous (not to mention very un-British) attitude

[Quizmonster]

If the Germans had managed to win the war and occupy Britain, would it have been OK for them to sell the Cerne Abbas giant, say, to the USA? One presumes that TTT would heartily agree with that deal!
The sculptures were clearly made by Greeks in ancient Greece. Sadly, however, at the time that Lord Elgin "bought" them, Greece was under the control of the Ottomans, basically Turks; that is people who had no feelings necessarily for things Greek.
Now the Greeks are independent and have every right to claim their cultural inheritance that we merely plundered, as we also did in Egypt and elsewhere.
We would be infuriated if a power temporarily ruling us had flogged our 'upstanding' historical figure, I'm sure!
Give the Marbles back; they never belonged to the Ottomans to sell and nor were they ours to buy!

[ToraToraTora]

There may actually be a case for returning the marbles but this is really about the default position, anti British, of the LOTO who presumably would like to be the PM.

[gulliver1]

Even the Scots returned the Coronation Stone, or Stone of Scone, bless them.