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A statue of Edward Colston was dumped in Bristol Harbour last summer (Image: GETTY) On Twitter, he commented: “To put the British Empire on a level with the Third Reich is, frankly, disgusting. “An insult both to the victims of the Nazi regime, and to the men of Britain and the Empire who fought and gave their lives to help those victims.” Along with the USA and the Soviet Union the British Empire led the effort to defeat Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. Priti Patel says she would not take the knee for BLM India became independent in 1947 along with the new Muslim majority nation of Pakistan. ....
7 Mar 2021 The grave of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Smith has become the latest target of a Black Lives Matter-inspired review of sites supposedly linked to “slavery and colonialism” by Edinburgh Council. Adam Smith, known as the “father of capitalism” for his seminal works on economic theory, including The Wealth of Nations, has drawn the ire of the Scottish capital’s local government, a coalition between the left-wing Labour Party and the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP). In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests spreading to the United Kingdom after the death of George Floyd in America, the city council launched a review of historical monuments, place names, and other memorials for “removal or re-interpretation” over alleged links to “racism and oppression”. ....
3 Mar 2021 The city council of Bristol has approved a motion calling for reparations for slavery as an act of “atonement” for the British port city’s role in the slave trade. The Labour Party-run council passed the motion by a margin of 47 votes to 12 on Tuesday following a zoom meeting of the councillors. The council agreed to implement “community wealth creation strategies” and to write to the British Parliament demanding the establishment of a commission to determine “how reparations may be delivered”. In a peculiar act of so-called cultural appropriation, Cleo Lake the Green Party councillor who led the motion called upon the other members to support reparations by “representing” as US civil rights leader Rosa Parks in a mock American accent. ....
Fresh Push to Unperson Thatcher, Rhodes, from British Universities 1 Mar 2021 The Black Lives Matter inspired attacks on British heritage in universities shows no signs of abating, as students at Durham have removed Margaret Thatcher from a list of inspirational women and academics as Oxford plot to remove Cecil Rhodes’ name from a professorship. Baroness Thatcher was removed from a list of women set to be honoured in a portrait competition at Durham University’s Art Society after students complained about Britain’s first female prime minister being included, who they alleged was homophobic. According to the Mail on Sunday, the organisers of the competition apologised for even including Baroness Thatcher, saying: “Considering Durham’s history as a former mining town, the impact of Thatcher’s policies, as well as her homophobia, her inclusion was an error.” ....