It's fairly obvious that you don't read any of my posts properly.

And that, as I have already suggested, is the crux of the matter.

Where do you stop once you have started this s***?

So that's two c***s and a w***er and this clown is still here.

So is it open season now on Hol?....I get to start calling this clown what I think of him?

Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Aug 2017 8.06pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

No you don’t need to be Irish or a Monarchist to take exception to a statue of Cromwell. The original point is that in local British context a statue of Cromwell has largely lost it ability either to inspire glorification of a brutish system or to act as a marker for who is in charge, over time these conflicts have been resolved.
I agree to an extent that the issue should be taken at a local level and the Charlottesville city council took the decision to the remove the statue , I assume if the majority want to keep the statue then at the next local election the people in Charlottesville will be able to have their say. Having said that, I would also expect guidance and leadership from higher levels to ensure that decisions fitted with a national mood.

One supporter of hacking argued that without it "you will do away with the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week's practice -Blackheath secretary at first meeting of the F.A

Well, while it isn't for you to say what other people's extent of feeling is about historical figures ..... I certainly agreed with most of your post up until this sentence.

You don't allow people the say in what statues or monuments exist in their area and then write that. The south contained many armies and their relatives live within these towns. You don't get to decide how people feel about their past and frame it into simple good/bad ideologies because some people feel like that.

If the local area want these things they have them, if they don't, they don't....like you said first.....No higher up 'guidance'.

Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Aug 2017 8.30pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Come on Stirling. Very poor comparison. These statues were put up specifically to assert the right for white people to have power over black people.

The pyramids were built for rather different reasons.

Jackson did not write his music in a direct provocation in order to offend. If I find it offensive that is merely in the eye of the beholder. Not up to you usual standards, been a long week?