10 feet is only three metres. It’s a long way to piss, sure, but with a following wind, I think I can manage it.
And if not, that’s what step ladders are for.
More seriously, surely a 3m high plinth just gives everyone more space for graffiti?
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It’s all daft, really. Any plinth tall enough to keep the statue out of vandalism’s way will itself be at risk of someone idiotic/patriotic enough to push it over, even if it involves farm machinery. Or offer plenty of room for spray paint and stickers, which means a constant cost of cleaning. Oh, and don’t think CCTV will deter the vandals. It hasn’t in the past, has it?
Just accept that she’s pretty much reviled even in her home town, and stop trying to celebrate a person who really isn’t worth celebrating.
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I really appreciated Russel Brand’s obituary for her:
I can’t articulate with the skill of either of “the Marks” – Steel or Thomas – why Thatcher and Thatcherism were so bad for Britain but I do recall that even to a child her demeanour and every discernible action seemed to be to the detriment of our national spirit and identity. Her refusal to stand against apartheid, her civil war against the unions, her aggression towards our neighbours in Ireland and a taxation system that was devised in the dark ages, the bombing of a retreating ship – it’s just not British.
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That is a surprisingly good read, thanks!
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I lived in London for the first few years of Thatcher’s rule, and until the Falklands War she was looking like a lame duck PM with little chance of re-election. The popularity boost that allowed to paint herself as a mini-Churchill also led to the denationalisation of British institutions such as rail, power, water, gas and more, the destruction of workers’ representation, increasing polarisation of society and wealth and a correspondingly less civil society.
From outside Britain you may imagine Thatcher was adorable, but everywhere in Britain except London and the Home Counties she is widely despised as the leading architect of British misery.
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