BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoPensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statuemetro.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1345file-textcross-posted to: uk_politics@feddit.uk
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·9 months agoI don’t know if the timing was intentional or not. It’s not the first time it was appropriately vandalized. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/15/margaret-thatcher-statue-grantham-egged-within-hours-of-it-being-installed It was, as that article says, unveiled without ceremony. They knew people wouldn’t approve of it. I guess they hoped they wouldn’t notice it either.
I don’t know if the timing was intentional or not. It’s not the first time it was appropriately vandalized.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/15/margaret-thatcher-statue-grantham-egged-within-hours-of-it-being-installed
It was, as that article says, unveiled without ceremony. They knew people wouldn’t approve of it. I guess they hoped they wouldn’t notice it either.