Utter Lunacy 60 Statues To Go

[retrocop]

BLM have targeted 60 Statues and Plaques. Their choices are bizzare. Will we now have black stabbing victims picking and choosing what hospitals save their lives. They apparently now don't appreciate Guy's hospital. I am sure Guys didn't turn them away when they were bleeding to death.
Arms manufacture and Engineer Armstrong. Obviously BLM would have sooner lived under a Nazi regime. Armstrong Company manufactured the Armstrong Whiteley Bomber in the 2nd W.W.

Horatio Nelson, Drake et al. It has to stop. Full list in Link

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/09/hit-list-racist-statues-black-lives-matter-protesters-want-pulling-12827249/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&;utm_source=pushly

[dannyk13]

Retro, if he has any sense he will not attend in person.

[gulliver1]

What is Boris doing about this situation, why is he remaining silent.
Boris YOU are the P/M. If you don't know what to do Ask Cummings.

[naomi24]

Gulliver, Boris isn't remaining silent.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/08/i-hear-you-boris-johnson-to-black-lives-matter-protesters

Keep up.

[dannyk13]

Gulliver, you really should see someone about your Boris obsession,it isn't healthy.

[Togo]

Pretty soon, only statures of black people will be allowed and it will be a Capital offence to disrespect them in any way.................if you are not black.

[weecalf]

Funny when I opened that link there was an ad about ear wax will the ones in the wax works have to go too ?

[gulliver1]

Danny 13 , Wrong again as usual, you are the one obsessed with Boris ,
You voted for him.

[Gherkins]

Peaceful protests didn't work for women so the suffragettes chained themselves to buildings and set fires.

If you feel it's appropriate to honour slave traders with statues then you're living in the wrong era. I've been on this planet a long time and let me tell you, movements didn't move without a bit of protest and violence. Bring those statues down.

[Ken4155]

Just had a read through the list in your link, retro, and if what is said therein is factual, some of them need to come down. It is a mystery as to why they were erected in the first place. Shooting young black children from a boat in order to calibrate the sights of a rifle and torturing a 14 year old girl. Hardly the stuff od role models worthy of a statue. Perhaps the fact many of those involved in the slave trade built hospitals and such was to assuage their guilt?
Crapatcryptics; I pointed out yesterday that the decision to keep the statue was reached by a 56% - 44% majority. Where did you get your 2%?

[Gherkins]

Ken4155, I fear to think that half of those protesting the protests haven't a clue who or what these statues represent. But like the mob they mock, they go full pitchfork with their ideology and start throwing out content on the internet. It's a dangerous thing, ignorance.

[allenlondon]

Gherkins. Pleased to meet you, pal, even in this benighted place.

(Oh, it’s not ‘young sir’, pleasant though it sounds. More like ‘old git’, although some round here would call me worse...)

Allen

[Gherkins]

Ah! Very well, Allen. It's nice to know I'm not the only prune in the pack.

[TheWholeTruth]

why cant the whole voting population be allowed to decide which go and which stay ?....oh that would be democratic, and they dont like that because in all likelihood the mass would vote to keep every last one of them....weve already seen what happens when they lose a democraticaly held vote

[TheWholeTruth]

"If you feel it's appropriate to honour slave traders with statues then you're living in the wrong era"

thats your opinion.....

[Gherkins]

TheWholeTruth, I think you'll find that no one actually gives a damn who these statues are of so they might as well come down or be replaced. Previous to all this commotion, I bet you wouldn't have been able to name any of the 60 statues or plaques.