More erasing of history...

[Mousehold Mackem]

The British voted overwhelmingly to dump Churchill after the war. No one gave a feck about him back then.

Maybe we'll bring back the wren on the farthing?

 

[CatRyan]

And if he hasn't have been, your life would/could have been so different.
Enjoy wallowing in your performative guilt though.

This is true... but he would be the absolute first to endorse the owl and his removal.

 

[Tadger]

No one, not a single country celebrates bad things. Youre just coming up with nonsense.
Shakespeare, Turing deserve recognition, not removing.

They tend to downplay or deny.

 

[Billie Cheemus]

I dont want the bank notes changed. I want them TO REMAIN celebrating historical greats.
If that isn't clear enough for you, tough.

I think I would prefer that too. But I don’t think that by replacing them with a cat or an owl that we’re rewriting our history. We’re absolutely not.

 

[Tadger]

And if he hasn't have been, your life would/could have been so different.
Enjoy wallowing in your performative guilt though.

I don't feel guilty in the least.

 

[CatRyan]

The British voted overwhelmingly to dump Churchill after the war. No one gave a feck about him back then.

Maybe we'll bring back the wren on the farthing?

Yeah he was absolutely given dogs abuse... think he crossed the aisle twice, definitely once and in Session I think.

 

[c032745y]

He did, but mainly for pragmatic wartime reasons than any kind of morality or principle.

Churchill was a staunch believer in British Imperialism and most of what went with it.

Am not his biggest fan but he was unequivocally the right man at the right time. That last bit is the stuff I can't get away with. And the Dardanelles...

 

[johnlights]

Your argument is all over the place

The historical figures get changed, so at some point 'removed'
Shakespeare was removed about 30 years ago & replaced by Faraday who in turn was replaced by Elgar a few years later. They were recognised by being on the note in the first place. We're now going to celebrate wildlife, then in 50 years they might change to landmarks.

Replaced but the theme remained. Historical greats.
Now the theme is changing and all of these greats are binned.
I take it you think Gandhi should be removed from Rupees and replaced with a flower?

 

[Stella Spark]

No one, not a single country celebrates bad things. Youre just coming up with nonsense.
Shakespeare, Turing deserve recognition, not removing.

Replaced by a hedgehog.

 

[Billie Cheemus]

Replaced but the theme remained. Historical guests.
Now the theme is changing and all of these greats are binned.
I take it you think Gandhi should be removed from Rupees and replaced with a flower?

You do know they’ve only been on there for 50 years. Before that, it was landscapes, and other such things.

 

[Tadger]

Am not his biggest fan but he was unequivocally the right man at the right time. That last bit is the stuff I can't get away with. And the Dardanelles...

Agreed. Man of the moment.

There's a reason he was binned after the war. Presumably 1940s Britain was suffering a serious bout of wokeness.

 

[Stella Spark]

Don't know what fkd up history books you're reading.

Sounds like you may not have read any?

 

[johnlights]

Replaced by a hedgehog.

And imagine a bloke from Ashington trying to explain why...

 

[CatRyan]

I don't feel guilty in the least.

No you don't because you're not the one pretending the British Empire was some benevolent endeavour.

 

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Replaced but the theme remained. Historical greats.
Now the theme is changing and all of these greats are binned.
I take it you think Gandhi should be removed from Rupees and replaced with a flower?

If the Indians vote for that, then its upto them. I couldn't care less

 

[johnlights]

Agreed. Man of the moment.

There's a reason he was binned after the war. Presumably 1940s Britain was suffering a serious bout of wokeness.

Ill bite.
Do you honestly think "wokeness" isn't a thing?

If the Indians vote for that, then its upto them. I couldn't care less

It wont happen though.
Im getting on of those notification attacks.
Insomniac or whoever.
Strange behaviour.

 

[c032745y]

Ill bite.
Do you honestly think "wokeness" isn't a thing?

It wont happen though.
Im getting on of those notification attacks.
Insomniac or whoever.
Strange behaviour.

If you can tell me what "wokeness" is...

 

[Tadger]

Ill bite.
Do you honestly think "wokeness" isn't a thing?

It absolutely is a thing.

 

[johnlights]

It absolutely is a thing.

Thank you.

 

[CatRyan]

Am not his biggest fan but he was unequivocally the right man at the right time. That last bit is the stuff I can't get away with. And the Dardanelles...

He loved Chemical weapons mixed with racism another favourite past time of his and remarkable as profane even for the time.
The Black and Tans, Sidney Street, gallipoli, whoring his politics for oil companies, the strikers and most damning of all Bengal.

He was a monster, an absolute monster, but in our darkest hours he was our much needed monster.