Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue
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.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/06/hunt-pensioner-defaced-margaret-thatcher-statue-slur-20414158/Open linkView original on feddit.uk
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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.
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....?
Replace the public urinal this pensioner graffitied with a statue in her honor.
Imagine building a statue to Margaret Thatcher in 2022
Not all heroes use zimmer frames. But some do.
Would love to be a pensioner able to do petty crime with little repurcussions
Good man.
*elderly woman
From the article:
Then the photo shows the word ending in a D
So what’s the word? Blowhard? Behead? Bedraggled?
What did the pensioner say?
Bellend
Bastard I guess
The rude word is given as:
I'm guessing it's ‘bollock’.
Probably BASTARD since we see D.
Definitely more probable than 'boobies'
Incredibly based
More of this please!
Someone mail her more spray paint.
Better yet, have 20 gallons of magenta paint delivered to her.
We must encourage this new genre of art!
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.
Why would a capitalist dictatorship reverse something that benefits the capitalist class?
Please for the love of god just do the bare minimum research. It'll stop you looking like an ass.
As an American, I have no fucking idea what margret thatcher is
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.
Empty comments aren't any better than any comment sections. It should be easier to look her up than type those comments. Either way she could be compared to Reagan.
That’s… not good.
Her actions are still negatively influencing peoples lives to this day. You should stop being such a bootlicker.
"Villains of history"? She wasn't bloody Hitler.
There are other historical villains than Hitler. It isn't an either/or situation.
Someone with a different economic ideology is not a "villain".
It's such a weird way of viewing politics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28
Repealed 20 years ago.
Right. And who introduced it?
It's the 40yr anniversary of the miners strikes.
...and?
What does putting graffiti on a statue achieve with regards to that?
Well, it achieved you obviously getting your knickers in a twist about it. So that's something.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners'_strike
The real question is how are right-wingers still fetishizing Thatcher so much?
When that ends, then resisting it can end.
That is also weird because we haven't had anything close to Thatcherism since she left office.
You appear to have missed the bit when a certain neo-Thatcherite PM fucked the economy to ribbons in mid-2022 then.
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.
The stature is new.