Eggs. Eggs? EGGS! Why not nitric acid. Aqua regia. Dissolve her evil face off. That woman blighted the lives of thousands in the UK, including me. Her legacy is nothing but evil. Words fail to express how angry I am that any public funds should be spent preserving the memory of this monster.
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I think the best compromise to allow the statue to stand in a central public location but protect it from vandalism is to have the statue lowered rather than raised.
Carefully erect the statue at the bottom of a 10 foot hole.
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Cross-post opportunity with a BB Store bidet post?
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There’s the counter example of Nelson’s column.
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JMHO: The obelisk and surrounding memorial doo-hickies “elevate” Nelson away from the public. Hero-worship out of control. 
(I wonder if they sell cheap binoculars nearby?)
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Those who don’t have the dosh may find other ways to climb up…
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A couple of good rain showers should do the trick.
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A nice thermite necklace would set it off perfectly.
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Ah - yes - good point. I was assuming the clay feet would at least be fired or the statue wouldn’t stand up. Ceramic is easy to smash when the time comes. (And in her case it could not come too soon.)
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How about we build the bloody thing approx 9000 miles away. Somewhere off the coast of Argentina, say?
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They already have one.
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Did not know that. Cnuts.
ta for the info, tho
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Put it on the South Sandwich Islands. It is probably the only British place where it won’t be vandalised.
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That statue is curiously lacking in the eggs and eggshells department.
Surely Mancunians must wash the statue every day to keep it so very clean. There can be no other possible explanation. /sarcasm
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This might turn out useful.
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Not just a statue, a relatively expensive one, and some sort of elaborate ceremony on top of that. They’re not even “tone deaf”, or they would have left off the plinth; they damn well knew what they were doing was messed up. That’s direct, intentional a-holery, in my view (at a long remove, in the US ^^').
I’m not a Brit, but you know what? Fuck the Tories. I wouldn’t have thought it was possible to have less charm than the GOP in the US, but there you have it.
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Wow, I think I may have to move to Manchester. If they’ll have me. And my partner.
(I was making a joke earlier about Thatcher’s popularity vs. Engels’ and now I find that locals–those living near that Engels statue–are even more interesting than I first imagined. Cool! And thanks for posting.)
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