The National Trust has joined the Left Axis, or more correctly, restated its membership credentials, and started ripping down Blighty's statues ...
Soon to follow the castles as well ...
And further afield, the Ptolemy family will be spinning in their graves - quite literally - as the global Left Axis and BLM movement's wrecking ball comes their way ...
No slave trader, racist, or terrorist's statue or fastness shall survive.
Strange then that the Left Axis would like to see a statue to an anti-Semite and IRA supporter go up instead ...
Mmm, shurely shome mishtake?
And if Winston Churchill was a racist and terrorist then so was this one - but no sign he'll be off his pedestal any time soon. How curious they both fought against white racism too? ...
Now here's Fluffbun at Bodiam, a rather splendid castle in East Sussex ...
The floating fortress was built by one Edward Dalyngrigge. If the Left Axis and BLM ever need a lesson in looting, arson, pillaging, terrorism and all other violent means in the name of gaining power and privilege (not likely, I know, but bear with me on this one), they would do well to read up about this chappie. That castle was built on the proceeds of looted, pillaged, scorched and terrorised Frenchman ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Dalyngrigge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodiam_Castle
And my beloved Fluffbun has her very own castles story to tell too. She is from a race and ethnicity that was so persecuted by slavery during a period of history that her race and ethnicity gave its very name to the word slave ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml
Fluffbun is a slav. I wonder why the Left Axis isn't tearing down Spanish castles built by slav, err, slaves in solidarity with Fluffbun's ancestors? Maybe because she is white and the slave owners were brown Muslims?
So it dawned on me a while ago that all edifices, statues, castles et al, are monuments to the most destructive and abusive gene in the pool - the power gene. It doesn't matter who you're "fore or agin", it is you that's the problem for being "fore or agin" anyone in the first place! ...
You should either tear them all down, or none at all, to be consistent. To tear them down and replace them with your own is to be a hypocrite. And to tear them down and replace them with nothing is, as one Spaniard famously put it, for "Those who cannot remember the past and are condemned to repeat it".
Leave 'em up and learn from 'em, I say. They'll be coming down soon enough anyway ...
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Son of Duff
Your Fluffbun appears to be quite young?
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 14:29
Like me, Whiters, of course!
11 years difference. Respectable I think?
She's just one of those folks who stays young looking. Must be her Slavonic genes.
Can be pesky though. She was carded at the local Waitrose checkout buying my whiskey resupply only a few years ago!
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 14:57
Apologies Lawrence,
I couldn't resist...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XrE0FSQv4
Posted by: Richard | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 15:26
Plus this, from one of my non-luvvie friends Pete (the Para) Elliott.
Did anyone else notice the dark irony of watching two hundred year old statues of slave owners being removed by privileged white peeps while being filmed on a phone assembled by modern day slaves? Hopefully those poor black kids in the Congo mining the cobalt are feeling the luv?
Posted by: Richard | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 15:41
Looks like you have good taste. I can’t comment about hers.
Posted by: Timbo | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 15:43
testing
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 16:58
testing2
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 17:00
you passed the audition!
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 17:16
I'm sure that Shelley, living from 1792-1822, must have had at least a fourth cousin, thrice removed, who might have frequented a tavern also used by someone with links to slavers and therefore SHELLEY MUST BE BANNED!!!
Posted by: Ted Treen | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 17:23
11 years difference. Respectable I think?
How old were you when you got together? Regardless, it's fortunate you had John Cleese as a role model.
Posted by: Bob | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 18:42
Ex Scottish servicemen and women were in Glasgow centre today to protect our Cenotaph from the fascists. Lest We Forget.
Posted by: Glesga | Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 21:08
Rather than board up the Cenotaph in London it would have been more appropriate to mount a ceremonial guard on it. A bunch of 6 foot plus Guardsmen in full field kit would send a definite message.
Well done to the Scots for protecting their Cenotaph.
Posted by: AussieD | Monday, 15 June 2020 at 01:35
If the statues are viewed as depicting gods, then any imperfection would warrant their fall.
If the statues depict men, every one will be imperfect, most greatly so.
But essentially what we have is a bunch of kids desperate to make their mark on the world but with no idea how.
As to the age difference, half your age plus seven is the rule of thumb for the minimum to make it work.
Posted by: Pat | Monday, 15 June 2020 at 08:45