I think we should have a Margaret Thatcher statue ... with a twist
Margaret Thatcher statue will not be erected in Parliament Square due to ‘monument saturation’ but I honestly think they should put a Thatcher statue up ... ... With statues of the children who were abused by Savile, all stood around her crying. Proposals for a Margaret Thatcher statue in Parliament Square look set to be rejected because there are too many monuments in the area. It also fails to comply with a 10-year principle which states that no statues should be erected until a decade after the subject’s death to “allow partisan passions to cool and enable sober reflection”. A document prepared for Westminster Council’s planning meeting on Tuesday stresses that the area is a “monument saturation zone” in which new statues are not permitted unless there is an “exceptionally good reason”. The failure to comply with the 10-year rule, the depiction of the former Tory leader in state robes which do not “reflect her role as prime minister”, and the existence o...