Submitted on Friday 11th December 2020
Rejected on Monday 21st December 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Heal racial divisions and defend our history by protecting our statutes.
Give all UK statues legal protection from removal from their original location without referendum, backdated to March 2020. Not restoring our damaged public property to its original setting is creating a dangerous precedent which could be used by other more extreme organisations, e.g. the far right.
To many the toppling of our statues without democratic process is anti-patriotic and may harden racial divisions e.g. hate crime reports skyrocketed after Colston's statue was toppled in Bristol.
Our statues memorialise historic moments some by those with now outdated values. However, without them we wouldn't live in a free society with slavery abolished. Which of your values will be outdated in the future? Leaving them in place prompts open conversations whilst celebrating our shared history.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/326361
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