True. I doubt Lord Nelson ever even saw the House of Lords. If he wasn’t fighting he was in Italy with that Hamilton Woman he was having a affair with.
Also England lead the way in abolishing slavery in 1833.
Yes, I looked up the name, because I wondered who wrote this benighted, meritless drivel.
My British History stopped at 1781...................
And so the Great Leftist Cultural Revolution spreads from America to Britain.
Imagine if one allowed this women inside Westminster Abbey where all the dead white “racists” are buried. She would tear the place down.
"This woman," Afua Hirsch, is half Ghanian (Black) and half-Jewish (English-Jewish father) whose mother was a migrant to Norway when her father impregnated her there. She probably hates herself even more than she hates Britain and its history.
Of course, the hard left doesn’t give Wilberforce much credit either as he far predated Marx.
America is obviously not adult enough to have statues where nobody is offended or adult enough to walk on past and not let inanimate objects bother them without behaving like little terrorists SOOOO...
I suggest we tear down ALL statues. Every last one in all 50 states. Don’t care their race or religion, if they are stone or bronze. Pull them down, bust them up, melt them down for their raw materials and be done with them. Yes, including the Statue of Liberty. By Executive Order and Federal Decree.
What could be more fair than that?
As always with The Guardian, the comments are far more interesting than the article. Suddenly all the British leftists are having second thoughts about tearing down statues...as much as they enjoyed watching the chaos in America. LOL. Phony bastards.
-PJ
I think the real story is that Nelson was friends with slave owners and wrote a letter to a plantation owner criticizing Wilberforce which was published after his death at Trafalgar.
Barbados has been debating whether to remove their statue of Nelson (older than London's) for decades. It's still there, though their Trafalgar Square has been renamed National Heroes Square.