New 2021 Thatcher Statue is to get Eggs chucked on it

[arista]

Times Radio DAB live.

[More than 1,000 have pledged to take part in an egg-throwing contest
at the unveiling of a statue of Margaret Thatcher in her hometown.
The £300,000 10ft plinth of the Iron Lady, funded The Public Memorials Appeal,
will be situated on St Peter’s Hill Green in Grantham.]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-egg-throwing-contest-23096449



https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2020/12/council-approves-100k-budget-for-thatcher-statue-unveiling/


Its a Bronze Statue in Grantham.


A Massive Facebook group has another 200
people wanting to also chuck eggs at it.




[South Kesteven District Council is set to approve a £100,000 spend on an
event to unveil the new Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham.
The £300,000 bronze statue of the Iron Lady was brought to the
town by Grantham Museum, SKDC and the Public Memorials Appeal.
It was originally destined for display in London but it will now be
on a 10ft plinth on St Peter’s Hill green.]

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/cost-of-unveiling-event-for-margaret-thatcher-statue-is-revealed-9143288/

[Crimson Dynamo]

The organiser of the event, Kass Arif, said in an accompanying post: "Bois and girls and me non binarys, we out here holding contest for egg throwing, lassos throwing, and potentially graffiti art.



:laugh2:

[Alf]

What will that achieve? A brief moment of self satisfaction and a fine. Bad life choice.

[arista]

What will that achieve? A brief moment of self satisfaction and a fine. Bad life choice.




I guess the Protestors will Film It
for Facebook/YouTube Etc.

[DouglasS]

What will that achieve? A brief moment of self satisfaction and a fine. Bad life choice.

Exactly, only stupid people will participate

[hijaxers]

Times Radio DAB live.

[More than 1,000 have pledged to take part in an egg-throwing contest
at the unveiling of a statue of Margaret Thatcher in her hometown.
The £300,000 10ft plinth of the Iron Lady, funded The Public Memorials Appeal,
will be situated on St Peter’s Hill Green in Grantham.]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-egg-throwing-contest-23096449



https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2020/12/council-approves-100k-budget-for-thatcher-statue-unveiling/


Its a Bronze Statue in Grantham.


A Massive Facebook group has another 200
people wanting to also chuck eggs at it.




[South Kesteven District Council is set to approve a £100,000 spend on an
event to unveil the new Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham.
The £300,000 bronze statue of the Iron Lady was brought to the
town by Grantham Museum, SKDC and the Public Memorials Appeal.
It was originally destined for display in London but it will now be
on a 10ft plinth on St Peter’s Hill green.]

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/cost-of-unveiling-event-for-margaret-thatcher-statue-is-revealed-9143288/


I wouldnt waste a good egg on her ~ give the foxes the eggs.

[Kazanne]

Well how childish,how old are these people ? Christ give the eggs to the foxes as Jax said,or give them to foodbanks for people to get some use out of, strange mindset some people have.

[Scarlett.]

Yeah, you can get the same effect by pissing on it

[Crimson Dynamo]

Its actually a stunning work of art

[joeysteele]

Sorry, I don't see the need for statues to personally glorify any individuals.
Shove them inside buildings relevant to the person or shove them in museums.

I honestly don't think even as a child I've ever been taken to see or since gone to see a statue.

So them shoved in your faces in public places, especially if divisive characters, I see no reason for whatsoever.

[Oliver_W]

The organiser of the event, Kass Arif, said in an accompanying post: "Bois and girls and me non binarys, we out here holding contest for egg throwing, lassos throwing, and potentially graffiti art.



:laugh2:

Sounds like the only thing that bunch can throw is a sissy fit!

[Samm]

:love:

[Samm]

https://pics.me.me/the-problem-with-pissing-on-my-grave-is-that-you-34251700.png

[Nick.]

Gotta love a gender neutral toilet

[Kizzy]

If it were a conceptional piece it would depict a deformed she wolf emerging from a swirling mass of dead miners.
That would be a true representation.

[Ramsay]

Off with the ***** head

[Daniel-X]

https://pics.me.me/the-problem-with-pissing-on-my-grave-is-that-you-34251700.png

Omg I love this quote :love: my favourite after her U turn speech.

[Daniel-X]

It’s a shame she’s not alive still so people could actually piss on it :love:

[Kizzy]

It’s a shame she’s not alive still so people could actually piss on it :love:

If she were alive there wouldn't be a grave to piss on :/

[Daniel-X]

If she were alive there wouldn't be a grave to piss on :/

I meant piss on her :love:

[Jack_]

Where do I sign up?

[Kizzy]

I meant piss on her :love:

Ah right, well her legacy is still alive, the Conservatives are still ruining lives and yet for some reason we vote them back in! Nation of masochists we are :/

Personally I think she was wrong, she's ruined the country for generations so effectively we'll never run out of piss ;)

[Crimson Dynamo]

And still her impact..... :love:

[Kizzy]

And still her impact..... :love:

Yep.. impact that's one way of describing a deep seated loathing from a large cross section of society and the whole of Liverpool.

[Samm]

It’s a shame she’s not alive still so people could actually piss on it :love:

if she was alive she'll be too good for piss :love: it's be sh*t :love:

[Samm]

if she was alive she'll be too good for piss :love: it's be sh*t :love:

which she is rotting in now 6 feet under.. dirt and utter sh*t :love:

[hijaxers]

She really is the most hated woman for me so far in my lifetime ! Vile nasty woman ~ the damage she caused and the 1000's of lives she wrecked.
I still wouldn't waste an egg on her unless it was rotten

[DouglasS]

And still her impact..... :love:

Legends live on.. :love:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yep.. impact that's one way of describing a deep seated loathing from a large cross section of society and the whole of Liverpool.

You are speaking for cities now?

Wow

[DouglasS]

Yep.. impact that's one way of describing a deep seated loathing from a large cross section of society and the whole of Liverpool.

Social media and the internet is not represention of true feelings.. if you’d go by how popular someone or parties are online Labour would have won 75% and Brexit would have won 75%. The true opinion of the population is often very different.. As someone who has lived in Liverpool I’ve seen a lot of older folks praise Thatcher and believe her to be a fantastic leader (people who actually were adults at the time of her leadership rather than a lot of forum members here who hadn’t even been born and just read social media to inform their opinions)

[Scarlett.]

Social media and the internet is not represention of true feelings.. if you’d go by how popular someone or parties are online Labour would have won 75% and Brexit would have won 75%. The true opinion of the population is often very different.. As someone who has lived in Liverpool I’ve seen a lot of older folks praise Thatcher and believe her to be a fantastic leader (people who actually were adults at the time of her leadership rather than a lot of forum members here who hadn’t even been born and just read social media to inform their opinions)

She was widely hated long before social media

[Kizzy]

Social media and the internet is not represention of true feelings.. if you’d go by how popular someone or parties are online Labour would have won 75% and Brexit would have won 75%. The true opinion of the population is often very different.. As someone who has lived in Liverpool I’ve seen a lot of older folks praise Thatcher and believe her to be a fantastic leader (people who actually were adults at the time of her leadership rather than a lot of forum members here who hadn’t even been born and just read social media to inform their opinions)
I highly doubt that, literally everything I've read on the subject of the tories, thatcher and Liverpool in recent history is contrary to your opinion.

[Crimson Dynamo]

She was widely hated long before social media

You don't win the biggest popularity contest in the UK by being widely hated

:joker:

[Kizzy]

You are speaking for cities now?

Wow

Yes... I can't find one positive opinion on the subject. From the riots of the 80s, poll tax, unemployment, industry decimation, managed decline, outsourcing, blacklisting and Hillsborough there is not one area where the people of Liverpool express approval for the actions of thatcher or the govt.

Feel free to educate me if you are aware of any.

[Scarlett.]

You don't win the biggest popularity contest in the UK by being widely hated

:joker:

Oh, I'm sure she's certainly popular in the certain places, where she didn't decimate

[Glenn.]

Awful piece of **** x

[arista]

Awful piece of **** x


This Prime Minister changed the UK


Your Blair
was her son, in a way

[Alf]

9If it were a conceptional piece it would depict a deformed she wolf emerging from a swirling mass of dead miners.
That would be a true representation.The standard of living for us working class improved under Thatcher more than any other PM.

I understand at the time that people were angry about the mines shutting down, because at the time they wern't to know that by the end of Thatchers reign that their standards of living would be much improved. At the time they were concerned for their futures, a bit like the protesters at the weekend, whom I think you may have been against?

By the end of Thatchers reign there were not that many people screaming to open the mines back up, almost everybody had moved on pretty quickly. Their Double glazing, central heating, indoor toilets, home telephones, microwave ovens, washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers, televisions in every room, video recorders, satatalite television, stack systems, 3 piece suits and foreign holidays saw to that. Many working class didn't have most of that when Thatcher came in, they did by the time she'd left.

She was the daughter of a corner shop greengrocer, no wonder she gave us some tick, she let us put it on the slate.

Under Thatcher, we prospered.

[Tom4784]

They should consider throwing tomatoes instead, given that tomatoes can cause bronze disease which can lead to the degradation and destruction of bronze objects.

Margaret Thatcher was a twat in life and she doesn't deserve to be honoured in death. I can only hope the statue is vandalised beyond belief. Her death already provided a public service by creating a toilet in the graveyard she is buried, we don't need another pricey toilet erected in her honour.

[arista]

They should consider throwing tomatoes instead, given that tomatoes can cause bronze disease which can lead to the degradation and destruction of bronze objects.

Margaret Thatcher was a twat in life and she doesn't deserve to be honoured in death. I can only hope the statue is vandalised beyond belief. Her death already provided a public service by creating a toilet in the graveyard she is buried, we don't need another pricey toilet erected in her honour.


They are not that Clever

[bots]

She was complex, she did some good things, she also did some truly awful things. Power went to her head and if people thought Pritti was a bully they should compare and contrast to maggie .... no contest

[Ammi]

...while the world is in starvation and a pandemic etc, £300,000 is spent on a statue that has to be elevated to an extent that it can’t easily be vandalised, as is being expected it will be ...really, this is a part of what makes a country great again...what a crazy world, when will we ever learn...

[thesheriff443]

The level of hatred in this thread aimed at a woman is truly shocking.

[Kizzy]

The level of hatred in this thread aimed at a woman is truly shocking.

Why would the sex of a divisive political figure make any difference as to how they are reacted to for past decisions.
Statements like that geared to make people look sexist only serve to highlight your sexism.

[joeysteele]

The one thing I'd give Thatcher and she was PM before I was born.
Is I cannot find her in any way setting out to discriminate against or humiliate the sick, and disabled, the way the last 3 PMs have over the last 10 years.

The other thing about her is, she threw out the vote in 1979 which was a narrow vote for devolution in Scotland.

She apparently despised referenda and felt they were a failure of government.
However she refused to implement that devolution referendum result.

So she had more conviction, right or wrong than the last 3 wastes of political space who have been Prime Minister of the UK.
She'd never have carried out a 3.8% vote to leave the EU, then again she'd never have held the referendum.

Back to statues, I just personally see no need for them.
The initial costs of them obscene at times, then added likely costs of the unveiling.

Just set up a fund related to them for people to remember them by and use funds to help others.
Not leave what I'd term as often eyesores, for birds to mess on, councils to have to clean.

In this day and age, there's many ways to project an individual after they've died without shoving them in public areas.

Put whatever, where those bothered about any person immortalised this way, in a private setting where those who wish to, go and see it.
Not push it into everyone's faces in public.

This woman was fiercely divisive, there's those who think she was great and those with deep, very deep hate for her setting people and groups of workers against other workers.

For me, looking back, overall I would have hated her privatisation programme of essential services such as Gas, Electricity and Water.

I think all that did was allow competition to just endlessly raise prices.
With service suffering too.

She also used Scotland as a dumping ground for her extreme policies too.

So had I been born and of voting age, I would have voted for her in 1979 but maybe not by the time we got to 1987.

No though,no support for a statue of her from me..we need more unifying symbols across the UK, not more deliberately divisive ones.

[thesheriff443]

Why would the sex of a divisive political figure make any difference as to how they are reacted to for past decisions.
Statements like that geared to make people look sexist only serve to highlight your sexism.

Not at all, If you are aiming that amount of hatred at a woman your are taking it to another level of lowest of the low.

I don’t have a problem with strong woman I have a problem with weak men

[Kizzy]

Not at all, If you are aiming that amount of hatred at a woman your are taking it to another level of lowest of the low.

I don’t have a problem with strong woman I have a problem with weak men

Again why does someone's gender make a difference on how you react to their actions in a historical context?

Personally I wouldn't describe her as 'strong', to me strong is fair, compassionate, diplomatic and dare I say it patriotic... outsourcing industry the way she did decimated the country and laid barren the future for swathes of the country. With no proviso for future job creation, just added generations of people to insecure employment or poverty.

That is the tip of the iceberg too, and there are numerous decisions that can only be described as heartless and cruel, she was anything but strong she may have been the iron lady but for me that relates to how cold, rigid and dark she was.. nothing else.

[Beastie]

Can imagine Arista having a soft spot for Thatcher.

[Glenn.]

Not at all, If you are aiming that amount of hatred at a woman your are taking it to another level of lowest of the low.

I don’t have a problem with strong woman I have a problem with weak men

I’ll bookmark this for the next Meghan Markle thread

[user104658]

9The standard of living for us working class improved under Thatcher more than any other PM.

I understand at the time that people were angry about the mines shutting down, because at the time they wern't to know that by the end of Thatchers reign that their standards of living would be much improved. At the time they were concerned for their futures, a bit like the protesters at the weekend, whom I think you may have been against?

By the end of Thatchers reign there were not that many people screaming to open the mines back up, almost everybody had moved on pretty quickly. Their Double glazing, central heating, indoor toilets, home telephones, microwave ovens, washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers, televisions in every room, video recorders, satatalite television, stack systems, 3 piece suits and foreign holidays saw to that. Many working class didn't have most of that when Thatcher came in, they did by the time she'd left.

She was the daughter of a corner shop greengrocer, no wonder she gave us some tick, she let us put it on the slate.

Under Thatcher, we prospered.

Hmm, yes the early days (right through the 90's and 00's, in fact) offered up a lot of carrots. We didn't see or realise the eventual consequences of free-range neoliberal capitalism until a few decades post-Thatcher. We're sure starting to see it now, though, with dramatic effect ;).

[Samm]

I’ll bookmark this for the next Meghan Markle thread

:joker:

[Samm]

ATTENTION: thatcher is currently rotting in HELL!

[arista]

https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/16F49/production/_115752049_gettyimages-544377380.jpg

[arista]

ATTENTION: thatcher is currently rotting in HELL!


In your dreams.

[arista]

Margaret Thatcher statue: £100,000 unveiling event
to be underwritten by council

[The 10ft (3m) statue is due to be erected next year,
but a date has yet to be fixed due to the coronavirus pandemic.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-55146068

[Alf]

She should never have been leader of the Conservatives in the first place. Enoch should have been.

[arista]

Where do I sign up?


The Council have not yet given a Date
all we now know is it will go up
in 2021.

[arista]

She should never have been leader of the Conservatives in the first place. Enoch should have been.

No he was more on the Edge of starting a racial war.


Thatcher got her job as
the other MP's wanted to get rid of Ted Heath
by any means.

[thesheriff443]

I’ll bookmark this for the next Meghan Markle thread

It’s your posts in those threads that get removed and your the one getting infractions and bans so wind your neck in

[user104658]

As a Thatcher-aside, didn't Gillian Anderson do a wonderful job of acting as Thatcher having a cerebrovascular incident?

UnY47ha-VuU

[Kizzy]

She put us all in debt...affluence for many was just an illusion, look at the amount of repossessions in the 1990s.
Give you the option to buy your substandard expensive to maintain or replace housing stock and then take your means of employment. ...
Nothing she did was ever in the public interest.

Privatisation made a few rich who were rich enough to speculate in the first instance.. money was taken from publically owned industries and infrastructure and funnelled up.

Many saw clearly what was happening but were drowned out the same way they are today.

[user104658]

She put us all in debt...affluence for many was just an illusion, look at the amount of repossessions in the 1990s.
Give you the option to buy your substandard expensive to maintain or replace housing stock and then take your means of employment. ...
Nothing she did was ever in the public interest.

Privatisation made a few rich who were rich enough to speculate in the first instance.. money was taken from publically owned industries and infrastructure and funnelled up.

Many saw clearly what was happening but were drowned out the same way they are today.

At least we agree on this Kizzy if we can't agree on carbs. She dazzled the working class with borrowed bells and whistles to keep everyone distracted for long enough to completely reshape the economy in favour of city trading and global neoliberalism, which favours the mega-rich. The wolf is very much at the door to collect now, but people think of it as being "so long ago" that they can't connect the dots and see how Thatcherism, whilst offering the illusion of peace, quiet and security throughout the 90's, is still very much at the root of problems throughout the country today. Their greatest trick was in 2008, convincing the country that Labour was to blame for the ever-rising debt & deficit that can more accurately be traced directly back to the 80's.

[DouglasS]

ATTENTION: thatcher is currently rotting in HELL!

She’s an angel for making so many peoples lives better, especially the working class. Allowing them to be able
To truly live life, get mortgages, and providing more work for them :love:

Yes she made rich richer, but she also at the same time made the poor richer. Rather than making the rich poorer and the poor poorer..

[Kizzy]

Margaret Thatcher statue: £100,000 unveiling event
to be underwritten by council

[The 10ft (3m) statue is due to be erected next year,
but a date has yet to be fixed due to the coronavirus pandemic.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-55146068

See still taking funds from local authority from beyond the grave...and following a pandemic when social care funding is on the floor, Grantham should be ashamed of itself for making this a priority!

[user104658]

She’s an angel for making so many peoples lives better, especially the working class. Allowing them to be able
To truly live life, get mortgages, and providing more work for them :love:

Yes she made rich richer, but she also at the same time made the poor richer. Rather than making the rich poorer and the poor poorer..

I don't think selling off the entire country's social housing stock at a massive discount equates to making the poor richer. One small pocket in time. Yes they got to buy their house which is great - but they didn't invest the money in building replacement housing stock, they simply sold it all, and now the vast majority of social housing is in the ownership not of those who live in them, but of private landlords renting out that ex-council stock to people who need - but can't get - a council home because there are none left... at massively inflated rental prices that don't reflect the value of the property whatsoever, with people on low-incomes having to spend up to 50% or more of their monthly funds on rent.

Making the poor richer indeed :joker:.

[edit to add] Oh and also, increasingly, those private landlords aren't even UK based. They're foreign investors operating through UK property management companies, funneling vast amounts of rent money out of the country. :clap1: Thatcher policies.

[Glenn.]

So that’s £300k on the statue and £100k for the unveiling?

That’s quite a waste of money given the state the country is in at the minute.

[Vicky.]

Honestly pathetic.

I have strong feelings about thatcher, possibly mainly as my grandad used to talk to me when I was young about her all the time (he was a miner) but this is just childish nonsense.

[Tom4784]

She should never have been leader of the Conservatives in the first place. Enoch should have been.

He never was, thankfully enough, and he'll be remembered as an evil racist **** and hopefully, eventually, forgotten.

I can only hope that vile old racist isn't tainting the unfortunate ground doomed to become his resting place. May the **** rest in piss.