Policing inaction leads to expectations.

[Suff]

And so it begins.

Don't like what is going on somewhere in the world, just smash up some British heritage.

When the police stood by and took no action in Brighton, this was guaranteed.

Now, to stop this kind of thing, another chunk of our rights will be eroded.

[medsec222]

We can't erase history however much some people would like to, and there is certainly no excuse for vandalism. Regarding the police, they should remain apolitical at all times when in uniform. If they want to bend the knee, then they should do it in their own time out of uniform.

[Workingman]

"They bring back memories of what was done to us in the past."

No they do not! Nobody is alive from those times to remember them, what they can do is act to remind us that some events and some figures from the past should not be as celebrated as was once the case. Remove them and the questions do not get asked and so the past is sanitised, made clean.

If these things are not visible nobody can ask: "Mum, who was Edward Colston?" or "Dad, who was Cecil Rhodes?" and so nobody can learn.

By all means get rid of the laudations from the plinths and just have the name and year of birth to year of death so that people can ask, but to pull them down or hide them is to whitewash the past, and that is the opposite of what the protesters want yet they are too blinded in their new religion to see it.

[miasmum]

Isn't this what happens in Iraq? Smashing and destroying heritage

[jenniren]

We can't erase history however much some people would like to, and there is certainly no excuse for vandalism. Regarding the police, they should remain apolitical at all times when in uniform. If they want to bend the knee, then they should do it in their own time out of uniform.

My thoughts exactly.

Isn't this what happens in Iraq? Smashing and destroying heritage

Yes it is Shell, sad to see people behaving like that here.

[cromwell]

The pulling down of statues by BLM is like the Taliban blowing up Bhuddist statues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamyan