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Digger · Admin

Sadiq Khan calls for ALL London's slave trader landmarks to be removed

Digger · Admin

I have to agree, actually. Slave trader statues should have been removed decades ago.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

I agree. Place them in museums with all the past history of that time.

JP · Burning up the forum

He's only thought of this now. I'd guess he's known about these statues before now.

A case of cause some criminal damage and get your own way. Wrong message to send out.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the statues being there in the first place. The people who pulled it down need to be charged. It's a dangerous thing to do for starters!

Digger · Admin

JP wrote:
He's only thought of this now. I'd guess he's known about these statues before now.

A case of cause some criminal damage and get your own way. Wrong message to send out.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the statues being there in the first place. The people who pulled it down need to be charged. It's a dangerous thing to do for starters!

I agree with that as well. Criminal damage is criminal damage, and people shouldn't have the right to run riot and damage stuff and put people's lives at risk.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Does seem like he's jumping on the bandwagon somewhat.....anything for votes.

Magica · Go Outside

I hope the man who admitted to the disgusting graffiti on Churchills statue is arrested and charged.

-- Edited by Magica on Tuesday 9th of June 2020 04:29:32 PM

John Doe · Still Here!

Magica wrote:
I hope the man who admitted to the disgusting graffiti on Churchills statue is arrested and charged.

-- Edited by Magica on Tuesday 9th of June 2020 04:29:32 PM

Also the moron on the Cenotaph.

But I suspect the chances of that are almost zero - as it would be seen as 'provocative'.

Magica · Go Outside

Bloody mob do what they like, it's disgusting! Where were all these people when Lee Rigby was murdered on our streets. Is it because they were black and he was white. I'm all for blacks having a fair crack at life and being shot, killed because of their colour is so very wrong, but it has to work both ways of no way!

JP · Burning up the forum

If I was Sir Trevor McDonald's Grandson I'd try and persuade him to step in and try to educate a lot of these so-called protesters.

Someone intelligent, sensible, and highly respected needs to speak out.

Imo Trevor would be a good call.

Magica · Go Outside

JP wrote:
If I was Sir Trevor McDonald's Grandson I'd try and persuade him to step in and try to educate a lot of these so-called protesters.

Someone intelligent, sensible, and highly respected needs to speak out.

Imo Trevor would be a good call.

Yes I agree. Trevor has a way of speaking that just makes you want to listen

John Doe · Still Here!

Can anyone tell me where all these protesters in this country were when thousands of young white girls were (and still are) being abused, beaten and raped by organised racist Pakistani/Bangladeshi Muslim gangs?

Just a thought.

-- Edited by John Doe on Tuesday 9th of June 2020 10:10:33 PM

Magica · Go Outside

John Doe wrote:
Can anyone tell me where all these protesters in this country were when thousands of young white girls were (and still are) being abused, beaten and raped by organised racist Pakistani/Bangladeshi Muslim gangs?

Just a thought.

-- Edited by John Doe on Tuesday 9th of June 2020 10:10:33 PM

Well said JD. Fact is this has all got out of hand, this isnt about George Floyd, this is their chance to rampage through the streets, vandalizing and making demands. They should be ashamed to do all this in his name!

Digger · Admin

No stink over this then?

Slavery may seem like a relic of history. But according to the U.N.’s International Labor Organization (ILO), there are more than three times as many people in forced servitude today as were captured and sold during the 350-year span of the transatlantic slave trade. What the ILO calls “the new slavery” takes in 25 million people in debt bondage and 15 million in forced marriage. As an illicit industry, it is one of the world’s most lucrative, earning criminal networks $150 billion a year, just behind drug smuggling and weapons trafficking. “Modern slavery is far and away more profitable now than at any point in human history,” says Siddharth Kara, an economist at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

-- Edited by Digger on Wednesday 10th of June 2020 01:01:55 AM

Digger · Admin

John Doe · Still Here!

History and learning from it makes us who we are.

If these people get their way just about any prominent figure you care to name will now be airbrushed from history because they did not have the same attitudes of the comfortable and affluent 21 century we are lucky enough to live in.

It's ridiculous - how could they?

I have seen that the statues of Drake, Cromwell, Charles II, James II, Peel, Rhodes, Clive, Gladstone, Churchill, Astor and many others have been targeted so where will it all end?

Quite simply -

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-- Edited by John Doe on Wednesday 10th of June 2020 01:14:58 AM

John Doe · Still Here!

Digger wrote:
No stink over this then?

Slavery may seem like a relic of history. But according to the U.N.’s International Labor Organization (ILO), there are more than three times as many people in forced servitude today as were captured and sold during the 350-year span of the transatlantic slave trade. What the ILO calls “the new slavery” takes in 25 million people in debt bondage and 15 million in forced marriage. As an illicit industry, it is one of the world’s most lucrative, earning criminal networks $150 billion a year, just behind drug smuggling and weapons trafficking. “Modern slavery is far and away more profitable now than at any point in human history,” says Siddharth Kara, an economist at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

-- Edited by Digger on Wednesday 10th of June 2020 01:01:55 AM

Yes Digs, it's the sheer hypocrisy that gets to me.

I once saw some thug on TV claim he was 'forced' to become a violent drug dealer because he felt he would be 'oppressed' by white society if he chose to get a normal job.

It was laughable.

-- Edited by John Doe on Wednesday 10th of June 2020 01:26:28 AM

Vicks · Burning up the forum

The Far Right are planning counter protests in England at the weekend.

It comes after members of Millwall's firm spent yesterday guarding the statue of Winston Churchill.

They've accused the police of being too soft on protester's.

They have a point, that scumbag who tried to set fire to the Union Flag should have been arrested on the spot.

Vicks · Burning up the forum

Oh a "Football Firm" are the hooligan element of a football club, normal fans are called "Scarvers"

John Doe · Still Here!

Vicks wrote:
The Far Right are planning counter protests in England at the weekend.
It comes after members of Millwall's firm spent yesterday guarding the statue of Winston Churchill.
They've accused the police of being too soft on protester's.
They have a point, that scumbag who tried to set fire to the Union Flag should have been arrested on the spot.

Absolutely no chance of that - they were Woke/BLM and so far beyond any law in this country now.