More Idiocy , I Hope Her Majesty Has A Good Laugh At This Over Her Morning Coffee

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/oxford-university-students-vote-to-remove-colonial-portrait-of-queen-12328108

[pixie374]

I don't mind if I am, naomi. What exactly are you worried about?

[ichkeria]

Compare it to Brexit: a silly decision but a democratic one

I’ll get my tin hat :-)

[NeedToKnowPlease]

People voted to put it up the picture initially maybe when they did they wanted to honour colonialism and now people vote to take it down because they wish not to. Who really cares? No, the young people are not taking over the world and who cares if they are making it more "woke" for generations to come. It's better than them being ignorant.

[Mamyalynne]

Be quick Ich, they're selling out fast.

[MallyJ]

So Theland...people swear allegience to people they have and will never meet...wouldn't it be better to swear to up hold the law rather than that? No one will try and take over? They didn't manage during ww2 and I don't think it had much to do with the royal family more the country as a whole were not happy with the idea of Hitler in charge!!

[naomi24]

Pixie, no idea why you're asking me something I’ve already spoken about.

[Peter Pedant]

// no idea why you're asking me something I’ve already spoken about.// go on tell us again

Compare it to Brexit: a silly decision but a democratic one
I’ll get my tin hat :-)

foo you one of the THB of TTT - that turned out to be the Tin Foil Hat Brigade that TTT was going on about, having er just made it up

Foo again - that was a normal day on AB !

[pixie374]

I'm asking, naomi, what worries you. Even if you are right, where do you think it will lead?

[mushroom25]

// So Theland...people swear allegience to people they have and will never meet. //

they do - under the Promissory Oaths Act 1868.

[MallyJ]

Then they are daft Mushroom......!!!

[mushroom25]

// Then they are daft Mushroom......!!! //

they are complying with the law, MallyJ. are you saying those who comply with the law, shouldn't? where would the UK be be if all public servants were to say "shan't!! ??

[fcc]

Can any student with banknotes with a picture of the queen on that
they don't want please forward them to me ,thank you.

[Paigntonian]

Some students do a daft thing. It's always been like that.

[Mamyalynne]

Someone did that one pages ago fcc.

[burlyshirley]

15:43 - I don't have a picture of the Queen in my home, doubt many of us do, but I do have a lovely framed picture of Princess Diana who I was a fan of (if that is the right expression) and yes, I cried when she died as I did when Prince Philip died. I care not that you can't understand that, that is your prerogative, but many people could understand it and wept along with me. I can't explain why I was so upset and I don't have to. Of course I was much more upset when I lost beloved family members of my own, but there is absolutely NOTHING wrong in showing grief and respect for others who have died and understanding the pain of the ones left behind.

This picture of the Queen was removed purely because of colonial history, that is the crux of the matter. It's got nothing to do with removing old curtains or wallpaper or whatever, no it has got everything to do with that dreaded word 'woke' and how some idiots today want to change our history or have us apologise for it and I, peronally, will always take a stand against that.

[Ellipsis]

> It reportedly made the decision because some students believe she represents "recent colonial history".

"Reportedly" - did it make the decision for that reason, or didn't it?

> Political site Guido Fawkes reported that the decision to take down the portrait had passed by a "substantial majority".

How many of that "substantial majority" voted to remove the picture because it "represents recent colonial history" and how many did it for some other reason, like "I fancied something else for a change."

It seems to me that the whole reason this has been spun into a story is to allow a populist Government's minister to tweet his outrage about it. It's pathetic.

[AuntPollyGrey]

^^^^^^ spot on. This would never have got into the News otherwise.

[pastafreak]

TBH, I have no idea why a group of 20 somethings would even want a picture of the queen...or president, whatever...hanging in their common room. Maybe if they are in a country like China or Korea it would be required. But certainly not here.

[DTCwordfan]

I sit here cringing - if I was at my Uni today, enjoying the common room in my hallowed hall dating back to 1740 something (Battle of Culloden), I guess that I would have had to be looking at a huge picture of Queen Nicola Caviar.....I agree with pasta as to Oxford, though I guess they could always replace the pic of Her Maj with the Oriel statue of Cecil Rhodes....

Talking of Culloden, the Scots and students of the time pulled down the miniature sculpture (gargoyle?) of Cumberland from the frieze of St, Mary's College, the theological emporium. So what's different now?

[MartinMillar]

When I was at college we took down a picture of ACDC and put up a picture of Bros!