London's statues from 'bygone' imperial past to be reviewed, mayor says

[simon43]

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She's one of the biggest racists going...
 

 

 

Impossible.  How can she be racist?  She's black, not white......????

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[Chomper Higgot]

9 hours ago, kingdong said:

It wasn,t just britain,all Europe was busy colonizing throughout the 19th centuary,and if you look back in history Britain was one of the fairer colonialists.

Indeed it wasn’t just Britain, but the statue that has been torn down in in Britain and hence this thread relates to the UK.

 

’Fairer Colonists’ 

 

A reminder of how lacking the teaching of Britain’s colonial past is. 

[Chomper Higgot]

26 minutes ago, baansgr said:

A very sad day...what's next, library books, paintings, renaming whole towns...I know of one dictactor that did the same in the last century....

I’m struggling to think who you are referring to.

 

Give us a clue, perhaps a statue of him in a public place.

[Chomper Higgot]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Useless mayor. Under his "reign" public toilets were unavailable in the center of London when I visited. Tourists had to pay to buy something at Maccers etc to be able to use theirs.

Strange how those statues were not a problem before SOME people in the UK went OTT hooligans protesters.

Remove the past, forget the past, don't learn from the past, repeat the past. Madness.

The statue was a misrepresentation of the past.

 

Removing the statue has not removed the past.

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[JonnyF]

8 hours ago, kingdong said:

And her knowledge of mathematics is second to none.

Dianne Abbott is a real class act. Her son didn't fall from the tree either, attacking cops and exposing himself to hospital staff. 

 

https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/crime-court/james-abbott-thompson-charged-with-string-of-hospital-assaults-1-6448342

 

This removal of statues is simply electioneering by Khan. This sniveling little weasel is simply playing to the gallery to deflect from his appalling record as Mayor on real issues like knife crime. Expect a massive backlash if he tries to remove statues of icons like Churchill etc.  

[TopDeadSenter]

9 hours ago, Denim said:

 

Yes....could do with a few more Phil Lynotts. The one they have now does not do the bloke justice.  One on top of Nelsons column would be so like ...awesome.. It would then be Lynotts column standing in Thin Lizzy square. How cool would that be.

 

 

Black and Irish. Can't get more PC than that !!

 

 

 

Black and Irish does sound like the PC dream, but The Boys are back in town. Doesn't sound very inclusive to me. Can the girls not come back to the town too? And no mention of the color of the boys, were they white boys? Potential racism looming there.  Won't be long before the "woke mob" tear down the Phil Lynott statue!!

 

I totally despair of the left ransacking and trying to overthow Britishness to install their own dreadful system that failed everywhere they implemented it, and caused huge suffering and death tolls. Crush this violent anti-British mob or surrender. It is a clear choice.

[thaibeachlovers]

54 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The statue was a misrepresentation of the past.

 

Removing the statue has not removed the past.

A statue is just a statue. It represents only the person that it represents. Should Queen Victoria's statues be also removed as she was the monarch during the colonialist era?

[thaibeachlovers]

12 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

This sniveling little weasel

I like that description of Khan. Fits the man IMO.

[kingdong]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Indeed it wasn’t just Britain, but the statue that has been torn down in in Britain and hence this thread relates to the UK.

 

’Fairer Colonists’ 

 

A reminder of how lacking the teaching of Britain’s colonial past is. 

Lived in one of Britain's former colonies after travelling the length of africa overland,ever been to Africa or are you just another correspondence course bwana?

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[Orton Rd]

13 hours ago, stouricks said:

Queen Victoria knew all about the slave trade. Should her statue come down?

No she did not, the slave trade ended in the British empire in 1808, after which Royal Navy ships fought against it and slavery in the empire in 1833, she became Queen in 1837.

[peterb17]

12 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

so once the statues are removed they'll start renaming streets

 

imagine having your address changed to '10 Diane Abbott Lane'

Love it.

i hate to say you are probably correct - I suspect the price of houses in the lane will bomb 

[TopDeadSenter]

12 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

so once the statues are removed they'll start renaming streets

 

imagine having your address changed to '10 Diane Abbott Lane'

They already started renaming streets.

 

"Cochrane Street – named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-century tobacco lord – has been retitled Sheku Bayoh Street."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/glasgow-slaver-streets-renamed-by-anti-racist-campaigners

 

At least Diane Abbott street is pronounceable.

[kingdong]

1 minute ago, TopDeadSenter said:

They already started renaming streets.

 

"Cochrane Street – named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-century tobacco lord – has been retitled Sheku Bayoh Street."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/glasgow-slaver-streets-renamed-by-anti-racist-campaigners

 

At least Diane Abbott street is pronounceable.

Don,t forget Nelson Mandela house home to  delboy trotter

[Denim]

14 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

They already started renaming streets.

 

"Cochrane Street – named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-century tobacco lord – has been retitled Sheku Bayoh Street."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/glasgow-slaver-streets-renamed-by-anti-racist-campaigners

 

At least Diane Abbott street is pronounceable.

 

They should have just dropped the e and renames it Cochran Street.

 

I mean , come on everybody , we need to eulogize more musicians.

[thaibeachlovers]

IMO this whole farce is just more evidence that Britain should drop the "Great" as it's a has been power, and hasn't been great since they let the US kick them out of the canal.

[baansgr]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I’m struggling to think who you are referring to.

 

Give us a clue, perhaps a statue of him in a public place.

I think your intelligent enough to know, and you should also be intelligent enough to see the similarities between what's happening now and what was happening in 1930s Germany

[Denim]

14 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO this whole farce is just more evidence that Britain should drop the "Great" as it's a has been power, and hasn't been great since they let the US kick them out of the canal.

Maybe that's why the comedy series was names ' Little Britain ' , no longer great .

 

It still amazes me that people will risk life and limb in a rubber dingy trying to cross the channel to get there.  Talk about behind the times.

[kingdong]

2 minutes ago, baansgr said:

I think your intelligent enough to know, and you should also be intelligent enough to see the similarities between what's happening now and what was happening in 1930s Germany

Or in the Russian revoulution,funny how the "useful idiots" are the first ones to be put up against the wall once the revolutions over.

[peterb17]

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO this whole farce is just more evidence that Britain should drop the "Great" as it's a has been power, and hasn't been great since they let the US kick them out of the canal.

The term Great has nothing to do with the country proclaiming itself as powerful and great.

its a historical renaming - I think when Scotland became part of the UK.

 

[baansgr]

2 minutes ago, Denim said:

Maybe that's why the comedy series was names ' Little Britain ' , no longer great .

 

It still amazes me that people will risk life and limb in a rubber dingy trying to cross the channel to get there.  Talk about behind the times.

And one of the main activists trying to have The Cecil Rhodes statue removed, is an African that studied on his scholarship....talk about hypocritical...if she was that offended, why accept the scholarship

[Denim]

14 hours ago, baansgr said:

And one of the main activists trying to have The Cecil Rhodes statue removed, is an African that studied on his scholarship....talk about hypocritical...if she was that offended, why accept the scholarship

 

Scholarships talk , principles walk.

[cyril sneer]

11 minutes ago, Denim said:

Maybe that's why the comedy series was names ' Little Britain ' , no longer great .

 

It still amazes me that people will risk life and limb in a rubber dingy trying to cross the channel to get there.  Talk about behind the times.

because once the takeover is complete, those people in a rubber dingy will be living in their utopia

[CorpusChristie]

2 minutes ago, stouricks said:

And I have just heard that Little Britain has been removed from BBC iPlayer and other channels. Shame we will not see Ting Tong any more!   PML

https://news.sky.com/story/little-britain-removed-from-iplayer-and-netflix-after-blackface-criticism-12003558

[thaibeachlovers]

12 minutes ago, Denim said:

It still amazes me that people will risk life and limb in a rubber dingy trying to cross the channel to get there.  Talk about behind the times.

Because no matter that Britain was built on such things as colonialism and slavery, it's a far, far better place to live than the <deleted><deleted> places they come from. Funny that.

[Bender Rodriguez]

after africa was free of colonialism, what happend?  african "leaders" took over and the murders, corruption and stealing just went on (or worse)

[Denim]

14 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

because once the takeover is complete, those people in a rubber dingy will be living in their utopia

They will be needing to keep those dingys in good repair then. Just in case.

[Denim]

14 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Because no matter that Britain was built on such things as colonialism and slavery, it's a far, far better place to live than the <deleted><deleted> places they come from. Funny that.

 

 They interviewed one stepping ashore . He said :

 

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.

[thaiflyer1]

8 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

after africa was free of colonialism, what happend?  african "leaders" took over and the murders, corruption and stealing just went on (or worse)

Absolutely................lived in Rhodesia and Zambia for 5 years.....Rhodesia in 73 right when Ian Smith was being removed, look whats happened to the place now

 

South African white farmers being murdered everyday............the world doesnt give a flying <deleted>