I saw someone tweeting that disabled protesters need to cover their faces as per usual, because as in previous protests the filth will ID them and shop them to the DWP. God knows why attending a legitimate protest affects their PIP entitlement but it's another good reason to say fuck these scumbags and this failed state.
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
Edward Colston statue pulled down by BLM protesters in Bristol. Colston was a 17th century slave trader who has numerous landmarks named after him in Bristol. #BlackLivesMattters #blmbristol #ukprotests pic.twitter.com/JEwk3qKJx2— Jack Grey (@_jackgrey) June 7, 2020
love seeing a statue of a scumbag getting toppled by the people
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
bald guy doesn't seem impressed!
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
speaks volumes that these statues are still standing
meanwhile on the radio i heard a show about the prospects for the housing market post-lockdown. fuck this country.
― rolling my optrex (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
They’re rolling the statue into the river!
THEY ARE TAKING THE STATUE TO THE RIVER WHERE HE DESERVES TO BE DUMPED pic.twitter.com/cKturaJOEs— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 7, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
just mind the fish
― rolling my optrex (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
We love to see it
#Bristol statue of Edward Colston has been pulled down and pushed into the harbour during the #BlackLivesMattter march pic.twitter.com/ME1yxAhw7G— BBC Radio Bristol (@bbcrb) June 7, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
looking forward to all the "they're censoring history" thinkpieces
and that's just on ILX
― rolling my optrex (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
😍😍😍 xp
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
What a lovely story told w/ three tweets <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
Think you mean four
they fucking changed the location already 😂 https://t.co/zs5Moli4ob pic.twitter.com/dlbbg0cuH4— heard in mutiny where possible (@selfisoceles) June 7, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
Ha! Beautiful kicker.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
if you look up 'statue of Edward Colston' on Google Maps it now shows up as 'permanently closed' and in the bottom of the water pic.twitter.com/lgsGTOx9bg— Josh Salisbury (@josh_salisbury) June 7, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
I was thinking of suggesting that Edward Colston be replaced by Tony Blair in BristolBut maybe there isn’t yet a national consensus— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) June 7, 2020
― mark s, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
he almost makes me feel sorry for Blair, couldn't imagine what it is like to have such a shit stalker
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
They've defaced Churchill! pic.twitter.com/rkINK4oac6— Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) June 7, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
fuck yes I’ve been waiting for this
churchill cult needs to die yesterday
― 1312 (Left), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
i remember this happening during the 90's as well and back then there was always multiple dickheads with tenuous grasp on history who will say "he was anti-fascist, he defeated hitler ..durr"
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
fuck yes more days like this pls
― stet, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
xp step forward Lib Dem spokesman Sir Billiam of Bragg
― rolling my optrex (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
Just reading about the proposed Blair statue in Bristol, I think the people who threw Colston in the river may have been somewhat hasty
― anvil, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
Somebody put a turf mohican on Churchill's head iirc. Poll Tax riots?
― Captain Beeftweet (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Was literally about to say "has someone said 'this is very good but they should have applied for planning permission first'?" and right on cue
I grew up in Bristol. I detest how Edward Colston profited from the slave trade.But, THIS IS NOT OK. If Bristolians wants to remove a monument it should be done democratically - not by criminal damage. https://t.co/Wfz47zQQZU— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) June 7, 2020
― stet, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
If Iraqis want to remove a monument it should be done democratically
― rolling my optrex (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
xxpyeah i think that was a pic in the NME I have a vague memory of.
how do you democratically get a statue of a slaver dragged down with a govt in power who just recently commissioned a statue of a notorious nazi lover and anti-semite? lol sure
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
Seems the profiting from the slave trade is what really ruined the slave trade for this former Chancellor I guess.
― nashwan, Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
hate those innocent smoothie style not for profit slavers as well!
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZ7BPQYXYAEf6-p?format=png&name=900x900
imago's alter ego !
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
maybe build a statue to the victims of white meltdowns
― rolling my optrex (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
but make it so fragile that it immediately shatters
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
call me bud i think we've got this year's Turner in the bag
― rolling my optrex (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
spiked are going to announce edward colston as a columnist by the end of the week— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 7, 2020
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
Narrator: no texts were dropped x
― stet, Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
tbf to Spiked they probably do disagree with taking down the Jimmy Savile monuments
― rolling my optrex (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
everything about this picture
taking a knee on a toppled slave owner's neck: beautiful pic.twitter.com/jpycxujX7h— "Gabriel Szatan" (@gabrielszatan) June 7, 2020
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
I don’t understand why people are complaining about the Colston statue being pushed into the harbour in Bristol. It’s still there if you want to jump in and have a look at it.— Moose Allain Ꙭ (@MooseAllain) June 7, 2020
― groovypanda, Sunday, 7 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
2000 May Day Riots.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/740524.stm
(I was here for those; not here for the Poll Tax Riots)
― Branwell with an N, Sunday, 7 June 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
That's the one, which arsehole at the time who isn't Billy Bragg made some stupendous comment him being the OG anti-fascist. I can't remember who it was but lots of tories and melts don't half love keeping that meme alive!
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Even Dan Hodges isn't challoping about the statue.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 June 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
Imagine how little we’d know about Hitler if it weren’t for the statues of him everywhere— rachel shabi (@rachshabi) June 7, 2020
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
So @pritipatel thinks toppling the statute of slave trader Edward Colston is utterly disgraceful. The real disgrace and the horror which echoes down the centuries is the slave trade itself #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/n5TaRqLTFH— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 7, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 7 June 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
He was likely responsible for many more deaths than all of Britain's serial killers combined so maybe just stick up a statue of Dr Harold Shipman instead.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 June 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
I’m normally an optimist,but I feel we’re heading towards something grim and ominous. Mobs being egged on by our intellectual and cultural elites won’t have a happy ending .....— Douglas Carswell (@DouglasCarswell) June 7, 2020
― stet, Sunday, 7 June 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
Replies to the carswell tweet are a handy list of people who are likely to go out and commit a hate crime at some point.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 June 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
I think they should have a health and safety officer next time they bring down a statue, would hate to get a life changing injury from a falling cast stone/bronze model of a scumbag imperialist with a stupid fucking dick turpin hat.
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
a lot of the usual wankers are saying the avon/somerset police superintendent admitted they stood off and let the protesters take the statue. lol that is gonna boil some piss!
― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
This Metropolitan Police could learn a lot from this statement by @abennett_police. pic.twitter.com/jSJE6ulQVM— Owen Jones says join a union🌹 (@OwenJones84) June 7, 2020
― Piedie Gimbel, Sunday, 7 June 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
🚨 The US Department of Justice has demanded that Britain hand over Prince Andrew to be questioned over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/H1m8D0RbMk— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) June 7, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 7 June 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
Non-Sun link
BREAKING: US 'demands UK hands over Prince Andrew to appear in court over Jeffrey Epstein links'https://t.co/P82XREsXqe pic.twitter.com/t6yOXaLLVv— Mirror Breaking News (@MirrorBreaking_) June 7, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 7 June 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link