Do the people of Great Britain really want a huge and expensive statue in one of their most famous and historically significant places deifying a Marxist who, when placed in a position of power, ran his country into the ground and left a legacy of one of the most spectacular escalations of crime ever seen on the planet?
Just curious.....
Funny, I was going to flame you over the subject matter of the post, but you quite elegantly took the wind from my sails with your eloquent and succinct sub-comment.
Well done, and Godspeed!
BTW, Nelson Mandela belongs in jail to this day. So does Winnie "necklaces" Mandela.
Marxist scum is Marxist scum. No matter what the means of political posturing.
I think it's appropriate that his statue be placed in Trafalgar. The pigeons will crap all over it.
Just curious. Is there a statue of Sir Cecil Rhodes anywhere in Britain? Shouldn't there be? How about Winston Churchill?
Why Britain?
There are plenty of old Leninist/Stalinist statues in junk yards all over eastern Europe. Britain should consider saving money by importing them and raising them in Trafalgar Square - just as appropriate as one of Mandela.
The artistic fault is that it's not transparent and red.
"Do the people of Great Britain really want a huge and expensive statue in one of their most famous and historically significant places deifying a Marxist who, when placed in a position of power, ran his country into the ground and left a legacy of one of the most spectacular escalations of crime ever seen on the planet?"
I'd have thought the general sentiment was 'not particularly bothered' to be honest. Westminster Council is correct that the most appropriate place for it is outside South Africa House, however. Ken Livingstone is wrong. For a change.
He captured the real Mandela then.