Maybe She Has A Point, But Replacing It With That Hideous Lion Picture, Which Will Be Totally Out Of Keeping With It's Surrounding Decor.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5859955/Lord-Mayor-Bristol-removes-portrait-slave-trader-Edward-Colston-office.html

[Peter Pedant]

and in 1984, comrade Goldstein was un-personed wasnt he
( based on Trotsky )

and winnie apparently went from Mother of the Nation to Mugger of the Nation.

[Baldric]

@18:21, perhaps you could be clearer in your posts?

[anneasquith]

Baldric, perhaps you could read all the posts, not difficult, cheerio .

[Baldric]

/// she has only been painting 9 months ///

To be honest, it shows.

[Baldric]

18;44, I did and at best your post is 50/50.

[youngmafbog]

18:47, I agree.

[sp1814]

Good for her.

If it were my office I’d so the same.

But not with the lion picture.

[Togo]

I hope they knock down all the buildings he funded as well. Always thought that Lions did the worst things imaginable to African people.

[Mamyalynne]

The painting is not being destroyed, it will eventually be in a Museum and the Mayor has said she thinks there should be some reproductions made too, let's keep a little perspective.

[marval]

I don't blame her for not wanting that painting hanging in her office.

Not sure I would want the lion though.

[douglas9401]

"Always thought that Lions did the worst things imaginable to African people."
Nonononono, the worst things imaginable, in no specific order are sanitation, transport, law and order, job creation, agriculture and a few others.
So terrible are these things that they are cast aside as soon as local powers take back what was once, admittedly, theirs and a harmony with nature returns.
Weeds and disease for all.

[sp1814]

Togo

You wrote:

//Always thought that Lions did the worst things imaginable to African people.//

Nah...only dopey tourists who jump out of their 4x4s like fools on safaris.

[EDDIE51]

Any family wealth was lost long before my time. In was born in a council house shared with my Grandparents.We only got a council house of our own 3 years later. Been a council tenant all my life & now at 68 I live on pension credit. I do have a very old photo of one of our ships, it was a 4 mast sailing ship similar to a 'Clipper'.