Activists, including the 59-year-old director of the university’s arts centre, stoned the statue of Britain’s first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, in her hometown of Grantham.
Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, the son of a greengrocer after being promoted to the House of Lords, won the British general election three times in a row in 1979, 1983 and 1987, overthrown not by the people but by a domestic conservative. The faction of the coup led by Europhile lawmakers. against the growing skepticism of Europe.
However, he remains a figure of loathing for much of the rest of Britain, largely due to the country’s fights with unionists over the nationalized coal mines, and plans to erect his statue in Parliament Square have been scuttled for fear that he will do so. It cannot survive as a result of the actions of “a motivated ultra-left movement that may have focused on social activism…”, namely criminal vandalism.
Instead, the statue was erected on Sunday in his hometown of Grantham, Lincolnshire, but even there it was unsafe as activists laid eggs at it from behind a protective barrier.
Watch: Protesters throw eggs at Margaret Thatcher’s statue, hours after it was taken down in Grantham.
The former prime minister’s statue was placed on a 10 meter high pedestal following police warningshttps://t.co/ZJFljgxTJ3 pic.twitter.com/18k8401TRD
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Among the vandals, the theoretically respected Jeremy Webster is the deputy director of the publicly funded Attenborough Center for the Arts at the University of Leicester, and boasted of being “first egg” on social media. Telegram.
Webster, who also called Baroness Thatcher a “disgraceful animal” on social media, previously worked for Lincolnshire County Council and owns a £400,000 home on the street where the late prime minister was born, above her father’s New York store, according to the newspaper. New York. york 1925
“We received reports of criminal damage to Margaret Thatcher’s statue after 10:00 am”, adding that “no arrests have been made” and that “investigations are continuing”, local police said in a statement.
Members of the local council of conservative politicians supported the statue, one saying it “will always be an important part of Grantham’s legacy”, while another insisted it was beautiful to see and that his birthplace honors him.
‘Margaret Thatcher’s severed head on top’ statue is on display in Prime Minister’s town https://t.co/S9qPdfIXqG
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