Captain Cook and today's Torygraph

[weemoby]

Torygraph is reporting that statues/ monuments of Captain Cook may be next on the certain activists' hit list. Make of it what you will....

 

[Londons_Moggie]

One of those museums I’d imagine is Stewart park.

 

[Hicktonpen10]

Get stuffed would be my response to this nonsense. Presumably our great hospital will be in their sights as well

 

[Londons_Moggie]

Get stuffed would be my response to this nonsense. Presumably our great hospital will be in their sights as well

According to the Mail it is

 

[SmallTown]

I think we can worry when it gets into none reactionary papers. For now it's a none story

 

[HolgateCorner]

It’s not really new this, when the Bristol statue got thrown in the river and they were all under threat there was a bunch of blokes out on a Saturday in Great Ayton guarding (with the help of a lot of cans of lager) the Captain Cook statue and a police van circling slowly around the village.

Gave a bit of excitement to everybody stood in the queue for Petch’s....

 

[Randy]

It’s not really new this, when the Bristol statue got thrown in the river and they were all under threat there was a bunch of blokes out on a Saturday in Great Ayton guarding (with the help of a lot of cans of lager) the Captain Cook statue and a police van circling slowly around the village.

Gave a bit of excitement to everybody stood in the queue for Petch’s....

It was a few locals who were just out for the craic. Nothing more nothing less.
We said at the time that we weren't going to get an influx of folk moving on Ayton

(Disclaimer I wasn't one of the men in question, I was at work that day doing some cleaning up )

 

[weemoby]

It’s not really new this, when the Bristol statue got thrown in the river and they were all under threat there was a bunch of blokes out on a Saturday in Great Ayton guarding (with the help of a lot of cans of lager) the Captain Cook statue and a police van circling slowly around the village.

Gave a bit of excitement to everybody stood in the queue for Petch’s....

From the one incident I saw of 'statue guarding' down here in Devon, it certainly looked like can of lagers were a required accessory along with a belligerent and aggressive attitude to random passersby.

Total melons the lot of them!

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

From the one incident I saw of 'statue guarding' down here in Devon, it certainly looked like can of lagers were a required accessory along with a belligerent and aggressive attitude to random passersby.

Total melons the lot of them!

But they’re “footy lads”

 

[weemoby]

But they’re “footy lads”

The sad fact is that some people in society imagine that all football fans behave like that

 

[wilkos_perm]

What? The Telegraph stirring up anti "PC" sentiment?