Protesters Want Nelsons Column Toppled

[lankeela]

I think they might just find that the British people have something to say about that!

[Peter Pedant]

erm they did blow up Nelsons column to great applause in dublin in 1967

[Spicerack]

and

[retrocop]

I hope the intellectual elite at Oriel and their fellow cohorts are also ignorant of the fact that Horatio Nelson heroically and skilfully performed his service to our country at the bequest and during the reign of King George 111. If they are smart enough to put two and two together they might have learned there is a relationship between King George 111 and the current reigning monarch and her family. What next? The Tumbrils.
A tenuous link I concede but since when did these idiots deal with reason.

A little more education about Horatio Nelson's navy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron

//Between 1808 and 1860 the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans//

Once again these morons pick the wrong target.

[jim360]

I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised that Togo's taking me seriously either. I tried, I really tried, to make it clear that I wasn't being serious.

[Peter Pedant]

well Nelson was even for the time strict with the Neapolitan rebels
hanged a few from the yard arm
still not sure why they want to tear the column down

[Peter Pedant]

/It appears our rioters dont know their history, the abolition of slavery act was signed in 1807,// - can I flush this poster's idea of history down the crapper?

On 25 March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books. Nevertheless, although the Act made it illegal to engage in the slave trade throughout the British colonies, trafficking between the Caribbean islands continued, regardless, until 1811.

slavery abolished 1833
when the British govt bought them all and spent more money ever ( which I dont believe ) than before 2008

what the heck

[retrocop]

Me neither. No reason, logic or sense. Just criminal vandals.

[Bobnunton]

Who is this
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person on here?
He/she doesn't seem to have much to say.

[Old_Geezer]

They all want putting away (no I don't mean the statues).

If they're all so anti-British and it's record, then they would probably be happier making a life for themselves elsewhere. It'd be much better than annoying the majority of our society with their disgusting vandalism and demands.

[retrocop]

OG
Then they miss out on the benefits afforded by an old colonialist. Cecil Rhodes university scholarships for ‘Overseas students’ Thousands benefited from that freebie.

[andy-hughes]

These people are going to be really busy in the next few weeks -

the pyramids have got to come down, so have large swathes of Athens, Rome, Venice, and sundry other European cities ...

[jourdain2]

I think that, after years of accepting people as they are (but disliking some manifestations of Islam and it's influence in our society and saying so) I am beginning to think differently about coloured people. What! This is not me, I've never had a problem with skin colour. I've taught and coached anyone and been friends with anyone. Now I am so angry with this interference with our history and the imperfect grasp evinced - that I find that I am classified as 'racist'. This has not come from me. They are spoiling for a fight i.m.o..

Our history needs leaving well alone. Anyone who made money from the slave trade (which, don't forget, was normal world-wide) and ploughed back the profits into educating and helping the indigenous British slaves in the mills, on the farms and in the mines deserves a statue and remembrance. Has anyone thought about the labour and art of those crafting a statue and how they would feel to have their work destroyed?

WE were the country which (at some cost to ourselves) outlawed 1st the slave trade and 2nd slavery. We should be proud of our record. Slavery has been going on for thousands of years - try the Romans and Egyptians. How about castigating the chiefs of African tribes that sold people into slavery? Doesn't happen, does it? OK. Sleeves are being rolled up!

[Gherkins]

Who even cares about these outdated statues. The thing is too high to see without my varifocals and even then it can't be fully appreciated.

Times have changed, statues get replaced why not have a more modern approach?

[royfromaus]

''can I flush this poster's idea of history down the crapper?''



yardarm

[gulliver1]

Hope they break into Parliament and Topple a Female Statue that really Damaged the Uk.

[Jackdaw33]

^ ?

[douglas9401]

The sainted Margaret Of The Well Turned Ankle, Jackdaw.

[danchip]

They are making the whole racist issue more of an issue than it was and are fuelling racism by their actions

[Jackdaw33]

My query was @ 21:25

[Gromit]

Our Monarchs, Prime Ministers, Generals, Admirals and Traders made this country over many years.
Their victories and accomplishments have been commemorated for centuries.
We conquered the world, and did many wrong things in the process, but that was in a different time when invasion and forceful colonisation was how power was established.
But we cannot undo all of that, it happened. And to now try to revise our opinion of Kings and Queens and everyone else through 21st Century eyes is nonsense.

What traces of these people we now see in names, and hospitals and museums and monuments should not be discarded and obliterated. We are not weak and insecure like the Taleban destroying antiquities because it offends their dogma.

We should cherish our past, but possibly relabel some of it with relevant information. Even our dirty secrets should be preserved. To cleanse it will mean future generations won’t know about it.