Councillor Richard Eddy - Views On Colston.

[Captain23]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/outraged-tory-councillor-says-slave-22162181

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/theft-vandalism-second-colston-statue-1815967

[Gromit]

All the more reason to leave the effigy at the bottom of the harbour.
Anything else, and it will be a focal point for political bickering between left and right.

[Old_Geezer]

Has finally seen the light and error of his ways then. Pity he didn't work it out first time rather than give encouragement for more anti-social behaviour.

[Mamyalynne]

Cllr Richard Eddy likes his bread buttered both sides.

[Peter Pedant]

erm - what do I think?
I think if they threw Cllr Eddy's statue into the Avon Harbour then it would float !

I mean "seriously" ( after all hem hem this is AB )
he is allowed his own opinion isnt he?

[Peter Pedant]

Cllr eddy's mascot - the golly - see article
should have been a blow-up doll so that when they threw him into .....

[Peter Pedant]

[note to self
I must try to take these white supremacist racist thread - yes all of them, like weeds or triffids they are - in a more mature fashion ]

I am a proponest of free speech I might add

[CrapAtCryptics]

Only 2% of the population of Bristol signed the petition to have it removed so hardly a democratic response. The minority getting their own way as usual.

just on a related issue the supposedly racist pub sign petition had 26,000 signatures but only 10,000live in the village. Oops.

[Peter Pedant]

// 26,000 signatures but only 10,000live in the village. Oops.//

the other 16 000 were sure that if they drove thro that very village then they would be affronted