Submitted on Wednesday 10th June 2020
Rejected on Monday 22nd June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Outlaw anyone or any council removing a statue without permission of government
The removal of public statues by councils in the wake of the black lives matter protests are efforts to appease mobs and should not be condoned. Under these conditions it is proper for permission from the home secretary to be granted before their removal.
Statues in the UK were erected by those wishing to honour the greatness, endeavours and philanthropy of those that came before. I suggest there must have been very good and noble reasons to erect all of these statues and that perhaps these reasons may have been lost in the mists of time. A craze of history revisionism has tended to only focus on negatives and to distort. No context is given to the times in which these people lived. They are our history and should remain for people to judge.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Protect all monuments and statues from being taken down: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325814
Make it a specific offence to desecrate national flags, symbols and monuments: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325545
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