Submitted on Tuesday 31st January 2017
Rejected on Monday 13th February 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Remove general Haigs statue from whitehall
General 'butcher' Haig sent hundreds of thousands of men to their inevitable deaths through, arguably, incompetence or possibly pig-headedness, during the first world war.
It is an absolute insult to relatives of the fallen, to have to file past his statue on rememberance days.
Men who served under him are on record as saying he was 'not merely immoral, but criminal'.
He was known as the 'Donkey, leading Lions'.
He allegedly developed a system of working out how many of the enemy had been killed, by counting the number of allied losses, and became angry when some of our regiments had not lost enough men.
Please let's replace it with something more appropriate and less controversial.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise. Statues in Whitehall would be the responsibility of Westminster City Council.
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