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Quoting my own post, but which American said: "I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office, of having them to marry with white people." It was Abraham Lincoln. Get that statue down!

I'm interested to see how this goes in America. There is an (understandable) backlash against Southern civil war figures - but what's the real social difference between George Washington and Robert E Lee? Washington was a slave-owner, are the Americans going to tear down every monument to...

Indeed. The point made above about Boudicca's (Boadicea) is a good one. There's a massive statue to her by Westminster Bridge, if you're going to get all judgemental surely that should be taken down? After all, this was a woman who ordered and took part in a massacre of unarmed men women and...