Had they ever even heard of him before?
I believe the usual woezers about the encroachments of plitikle krektness and the dreadful impact of 'snowflakes' on their right to 'free speech' - which they are, we note, woezing about in the columns of the press and quite often on the broadcast meedja as well -
- are waxing very agitato about the de-plinthing and sending swimming in the Bristol Channel of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol.
Of course, I daresay, they could give a very, very, very complete, with exact dates, account of Colston's life and career?
No?
Puts on Claude Rains voice to be shocked! shocked! in.
I may have noted before - I think it entirely likely - that while there are a very great deal of statues of men about the streets and squares of our cities, a large number of them famed largely for killing and destruction, it is positively a refreshment to come across memorials to those famed for their arts of peace such as engineering, e.g. George Stephenson or Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the relevant railway stations. The Victoria Embankment has a curious melange of memorials to humanitarians, politicians, poets, humourists, and militarists.
And very few statues of women who were not queens.
Okay, we now have one to Mary Seacole at least (nurses are also reasonably well represented, come on down, Florence and Edith).
Petition: Build memorial to remember the victims of the slave trade
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