Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021

[maomao]

or a cherrypicker.....

Boom Lift & Cherry Picker Hire

Boom Lifts are machinery easily identified by their long, extendable arm (or boom) with a people basket attached on the end.

www.nationalplatforms.co.uk

Good luck getting that in the college gate. Climbing gear, chisels and no crowd beneath would be a better bet.

 

[phillm]

Good luck getting that in the college gate. Climbing gear, chisels and no crowd beneath would be a better bet.

These Oxbridge types are clever in some respects if they want to do it they will do it.

Was this Cambridge's most amazing student stunt?

The day a wacky piece of car parking made world news

www.cambridge-news.co.uk

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[brogdale]

CWS

 

[phillm]

CWS

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I love his work.

 

[Mattym]

this is great

Would pay to see TR say this to AJ in real life.

 

[teqniq]

Fairly predictable i suppose.

 

[phillm]

Fairly predictable i suppose.

Tory Noname NoNeck complains about something shock.

 

[chilango]

Enjoying the "... Churchill died for the very freedoms the protesters are exercising so lock 'em up" brigade.

 

[butchersapron]

The council now leaders. Also fairly predictable.

 

[maomao]

Enjoying the "... Churchill died for the very freedoms the protesters are exercising so lock 'em up" brigade.

He was an MP till the age of 89 Hope Johnson doesn't live that long.

 

[Pickman's model]

Enjoying the "... Churchill died for the very freedoms the protesters are exercising so lock 'em up" brigade.

Churchill died for his sins, not mine

 

[Pickman's model]

He was an MP till the age of 89

For his family it was either that or pay for a care home

 

[MickiQ]

Churchill died of a stroke at the age of 90, I suspect prosecutions are more likely over the damage to his statue are more likely than over the one in Bristol to a guy who has been dead for three centuries. Don't think it's all likely that the Bristol statue will get put back up though. It was mainly the status quo that kept it there.
I predict the plinth will remain empty for 2 or 3 years then someone will suggest a statue to someone less divisive goes there. I reckon most likely move John Wesley's statue or put one up to Brunel.

 

[Pickman's model]

Churchill died of a stroke at the age of 90, I suspect prosecutions are more likely over the damage to his statue are more likely than over the one in Bristol to a guy who has been dead for three centuries. Don't think it's all likely that the Bristol statue will get put back up though. It was mainly the status quo that kept it there.
I predict the plinth will remain empty for 2 or 3 years then someone will suggest a statue to someone else divisive goes there. I reckon most likely move John Wesley's statue or put one up to Brunel.

Put Boris Johnson there and don't let him get down

 

[platinumsage]

The Mayor who couldn't arrange an additional plaque in four years has just said he wants the statue taken out of the water and put in a museum.

 

[phillm]

Churchill died of a stroke at the age of 90, I suspect prosecutions are more likely over the damage to his statue are more likely than over the one in Bristol to a guy who has been dead for three centuries. Don't think it's all likely that the Bristol statue will get put back up though. It was mainly the status quo that kept it there.
I predict the plinth will remain empty for 2 or 3 years then someone will suggest a statue to someone less divisive goes there. I reckon most likely move John Wesley's statue or put one up to Brunel.

I would have thought though someone more BLM friendly rather than a dead white man again.

 

[butchersapron]

The Mayor who couldn't arrange an additional plaque in four years has just said he wants the statue taken out of the water and put in a museum.

Remind me again - what's your angle here? You were bursting for someone to act on this for those years right?

 

[platinumsage]

Remind me again - what's your angle here? You were bursting for someone to act on this for those years right?

I haven't lived in Bristol for decades, but I do remember Colston's slave trading being discussed on local radio in the early 90s, when the naming of Colston Hall and this statue were mentioned.

So I am surprised by the fact that in all that time since, there wasn't even a plaque placed by the statue mentioning slavery. Then hearing the current mayor explain his opposition to the statue, but offer some excuses for why he has achieved absolutely nothing about it in four years..... I guess my angle is that despite twittering by politicians and others about democratic processes, no such course of action seemed available, so chucking it in the river was justified.

 

[Pickman's model]

I would have thought though someone more BLM friendly rather than a dead white man again.

Bertram Wilks?

 

[Sprocket.]

Bertram Wilks?

Paul Stephenson?

 

[Pickman's model]

Paul Stephenson?

At the risk of suggesting an auld white man, Ian Bone?

 

[strung out]

I haven't lived in Bristol for decades, but I do remember Colston's slave trading being discussed on local radio in the early 90s, when the naming of Colston Hall and this statue were mentioned.

So I am surprised by the fact that in all that time since, there wasn't even a plaque placed by the statue mentioning slavery. Then hearing the current mayor explain his opposition to the statue, but offer some excuses for why he has achieved absolutely nothing about it in four years..... I guess my angle is that despite twittering by politicians and others about democratic processes, no such course of action seemed available, so chucking it in the river was justified.

Marvin Rees vetoed the plaque that was going to go on there because it changed the wording from Colston being involved in the trafficking of slaves to merely 'transporting' them, removed reference to him being a tory MP, and removed reference to the fact that Colston's charity only extended to those who agreed with him politically and religiously.

As the son of a Jamaican father, don't you think Rees would have loved for the statue to be taken down under his direction? The fact that it wasn't is more a reflection on the influence and power of Colston's friends in the Merchant Venturer's Association than any inaction on Rees's part.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I haven't lived in Bristol for decades, but I do remember Colston's slave trading being discussed on local radio in the early 90s, when the naming of Colston Hall and this statue were mentioned.

So I am surprised by the fact that in all that time since, there wasn't even a plaque placed by the statue mentioning slavery. Then hearing the current mayor explain his opposition to the statue, but offer some excuses for why he has achieved absolutely nothing about it in four years..... I guess my angle is that despite twittering by politicians and others about democratic processes, no such course of action seemed available, so chucking it in the river was justified.

It was a statue to a fucking slave trader. Of course chucking it in the river was justified. And way preferable to any plaque that would have seen him stay there, some kind of compromise cos there are really different reasonable positions to take on it. Instead of a compromise, you have a victory. Now to get his name off that hall, the school and everything else.

 

[planetgeli]

Statue of Bristol slave trading Tory MP 'tripped and fell' insist police - The Rochdale Herald

In Bristol, England, police attended a protest against police brutality, during which a more than 100 year old man who posed no threat to them was -

rochdaleherald.co.uk

The "Rochdale Herald" is good satire but there's a bit in there I want to quote because people might not realise what was actually being satirised.

This bit.

The slave trader Tory MP, was a self-described philanthropist, endowing schools, almhouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere with some of the proceeds of his human trafficking.

That bit in bold, no doubt in the interests of 'balance', was actually in a report on the BBC website yesterday.

Bristol George Floyd protest: Colston statue toppled

Bristol anti-racism protesters dump a statue to Edward Colston into the city's harbour.

www.bbc.co.uk

• He donated to churches and hospitals in Bristol, also founding two almshouses and a school
• Colston also lent money to the Bristol corporation and was a city MP for a short time

Because, obviously, the BBC seem to think it's ok, still, to achieve balance in racism. By reporting the racist's 'good points'.

Appalling or what? They don't seem to realise they are exactly part of the problem. That, over 300 years later, they think it's still necessary to advertise that slavery 'had its good points'.

Well done to the Rochdale Herald for its satire. "The proceeds of his human trafficking" is a great line. But it's a great line because it's true. The BBC, our national broadcaster, doesn't seem to see this.

It's not balance. It's still a massive part of the problem to repeat this shit.

 

[little_legs]

 

[Part 2]

 

[DaveCinzano]

Perhaps this time the city won't end up transferring an important educational resource on Bristol's role in the slave trade to London

 

[kalidarkone]

Marvin Rees vetoed the plaque that was going to go on there because it changed the wording from Colston being involved in the trafficking of slaves to merely 'transporting' them, removed reference to him being a tory MP, and removed reference to the fact that Colston's charity only extended to those who agreed with him politically and religiously.

As the son of a Jamaican father, don't you think Rees would have loved for the statue to be taken down under his direction? The fact that it wasn't is more a reflection on the influence and power of Colston's friends in the Merchant Venturer's Association than any inaction on Rees's part.

You mean son of a Black Jamaican father. Because some Jamaicans are white. I felt the distinction needed to be drawn in order for your post to make sense.

 

[brogdale]

Finger pointing....the river's thaddaway----->