Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue
3 years ago by ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 to c/uk_politics
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12878654
A pensioner has been caught on CCTV apparently spraying the word ‘b******’ onto the plinth holding a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister.
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Its installation was controversial and it has been egged and spat on – with some jokers even marking the statue as a public toilet on Google Maps.
That's a bargain price for a public toilet these days.
Yeah but when you shift in a public toilet. It takes it away.
So unless they gave they statue a realistic digestive tract.
Its a useless waste.
Someone marked the statue as a public toilet on google maps, now that is kinda funny
That lady (the pensioner, not Thatcher) deserves either a rise in her state pension and/or a New Year honour, perhaps a Baroness....?
Good man.
*elderly woman
From the article:
A pensioner has been caught on CCTV apparently spraying the word ‘b******’ onto the plinth holding a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister.
Then the photo shows the word ending in a D
So what’s the word? Blowhard? Behead? Bedraggled?
What did the pensioner say?
Probably BASTARD since we see D.
Feels a bit late to be protesting her
But a fair time to protest the statue of her
That's true
How is Thatcher still triggering people so much?
She stopped being PM 34 years ago and has been dead for 11 years.
Get the fuck over it.
A lot of the issues we have today stem from her privatisation and the north has never recovered. Her effect on the country has not stopped just because she's no longer PM and ultimately dead.
Yes, it's been so awful that no government has ever wanted to reverse it.
Which is why people are still angry
Well, a lot of the policy and austerities she set were "reversed" because they weren't sustainable. However, once you normalize a political ideology and set a precedent, it's hard to prevent it from happening again.
Please for the love of god just do the bare minimum research. It'll stop you looking like an ass.
For most people they then either ignore the thread or look up the name on the web to learn something new. You on the other hand decided to pop in and boast about your ignorance instead.
Interesting choice.
You decided to make yourself feel superior by shitting on people from around the world who took the time to engage the comment section.
Do you want empty comment sections? Because this is how you get empty comment sections.
So fuck off, wanker.
That’s… not good.
"Villains of history"? She wasn't bloody Hitler.
Someone with a different economic ideology is not a "villain".
It's such a weird way of viewing politics.
Repealed 20 years ago.
...and?
What does putting graffiti on a statue achieve with regards to that?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners'_strike
That is also weird because we haven't had anything close to Thatcherism since she left office.
Lol, she wasn't Thatcherite apart from dressing like her.
She announced a public spending plan of £130 billion over two years. She was going to use the state to prop up business. Literally the opposite of Thatcher's philosophy. Thatcher also wanted to control inflation and lower the deficit. Truss's plans gave no consideration to any of that.
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Cool. Crime but who cares.
Now the important question. Who the fuck paid 300k for a statue of her.
If public funds were involved. That's a fucking hanging offence.
If not. Tut tut typical sign of tory refusal to invest in mental health.
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