The hated statue of slave trader Edward Colston was stunningly replaced in Bristol on Wednesday morning – with a sculpture of one of the protesters whose anger brought him down.
You want to immortalIize rioters?
This is the most beautiful statue I’ve ever seen 😢 I have happy tears 💓
Just so I understand: you take down the statue of someone who built the city, created its history, donated all he could, to place there a thuggish troublemaker nobody! That’s not learning from the past, that’s hypocrisy!
Maybe ... Couldn't we make a statue, not of just one person, because no one's perfect, but something which invites us to celebrate people of all colours and to see them as equals, and invites us all to live in harmony.
Replace one divisive statue with another.
Big brother watching you
ok, you wanna mess with the black, the black pulls it down again.
White lives matter
This is powerful, I wish the United States 🇺🇸 was more progressive.. It’s time for a change, acknowledgment worldwide, Black Lives Matter....
I'm disgusted. This looks nothing like the saint George Floyd!
One stands for slavery the other for marixism which caused millions of deaths. Same type of people. The fist salute comes from the black panthers
Now they're happy.
Can we have one in Bolton please so I can defficate on it... urinate on it.. tear it down and smash it up. Can't be arsed travelling to Bristol to spend a night in the cells there.
You say that like it was a legal, democratic placement. Not that it was illegally placed there by a bunch of intolerant rabble. Methinks it will be getting a bit of wash soon too ...
Been trying hard to figure out the message. These statues and their emblems are all historical - destroying one and replacing it with another only changes the face not the form nor utter elimination of historical events.
It's illegal. Tear it down.
How hilarious. They replaced a slave trader with a drug dealer.
Smash an egg on this clown🤡 would be the first thing I do, if I ever visit Bristol.
It isnt having a statue of a black human being that is my problem Cultural assasination is The statue of the black woman should either have also been put up in close proximity or put somewhere else No statues should be taken down The good, and bad of our heritage must stand
As if history’s been made, and the movement can consider itself accomplished because mere talking points were expressed? Conservatives want to keep black people enchained to the inequalities they face to hold onto privilege, liberals are giving them crumbs and applause.
Appropriate, although a better subject would have been someone who was actually arrested for this history-making incident. EdwardColston BlackLivesMatter
Out of order bunch of yobs pull down a beautiful statue of some important man and replace it with this
Imagine this getting ripped down!!? There would be little petulant student pricks everywhere, fuckin rioting!
If this isn't inciting riots then I dont know what is!! Stop this shit now!!
Sorry no one should die in police custody but most reasonable people will struggle with replacing a statue of a white supremacist with a statue of a black supremacist ?
This is fly-tipping
They are putting race relations back in Bristol, it's stupid followed by stupid. If it's not taken down shortly it will get pulled down, either way it's another backwards step.
Did it come with armbands ?
Tear it down.
Wonderful. Next article please
Made by a white person probably
Hopefully it gets defaced and pulled down
Please room this sculpture of the Black Lives Matter protester, these people are Marxist
Disgraceful and should be torn down. Since when do we commemorate terrorists, which is exactly what BLM are, terrorists. Totally disgusted with this, put Edward Colston back up there
itsJackFitz It's a symbol of empty posturing of which BLM are prize exponents. Lewis Hamilton with his 3-500 USD million fortune could afford to free 500,000 MODERN DAY African slaves from slave markets in Libya
I’m going to draw murals all over London parliaments wall! I’m sure that wouldn’t be allowed? Nor should people doing the same erecting statues! BLM don’t run the country! Laws are laws abide by them!
LewC91
What did she do for Bristol compared to Colston ?
I say pull it down .
I also protested against violence towards ethnic minorities (I'm not black) . I think the new statue is a bit biased and only represents the black minorities. Could I knock the new statue down 😜 ...(easy..it's only a reflection)
Funny how people who cry 'All lives matter' are flying off the handle over a statue of a black person. Get in the fucking bin with your 'I'm not racist' bullshit. Hey BristolCouncil, how about getting permission for it to be permanent and lets see how that goes?
Guardian far left comic say Replaced! It was attacked by a baying mob of far left criminals attacked damaged and destroyed and now illegally replaced by illegal marxist elite
Who funds this
(yawn) 😦
Race baiting crap. Remove it! 🤮
If this wasnt BLM people would be saying kids have vandalised a historic statue and replaced it with there own that they knocked up for a 'laugh' through peer pressure The only positive is it's another nail in the coffin of BLMs name in the real world ⚰
Imagine being this annoyed about a statue smh
Scrap metal dumping is a crime its been reported to the council
Finally!!!!!
Now that's a statue.
Can't wait to see this statue vandalize
This is amazing! Xxx
Now it is time to use BLM activist tactics. A group of people need to unite together and the statue down, because it is clear not everybody likes the statue since it does not represent them.
Tear that down. It's all good now, right?
Greenpeace Oustanding!! 👍
I thought yoy had to be dead to get a statue
There's something awfully familiar about all this...
The main problem with doing things like this, is that in five years, the new statue will mean nothing. It will have no significance, no value. It will just be a statue of a random person with no actual claim to fame outside of a viral photo that no one will remember.
Today is a powerful day
Bastards
Oh god, the flag in their name gammons are going to explode.
Even aesthetically it’s better than the original...
The statue erected will simply fuel the division blm are trying to achieve. They are not interested in a coming together, they don't even know what they are protesting about. You cant challenge them on a debate because all they have is rhetoric. Try fighting about modern slavery
NAZIS takeover in Bristol
Keep it up as a monument to moral panics and hysteria
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Cool, hope this statue gets taken down as well. Since anarchy is the new normal
It's very lifelike.
RuleBrexitannia How the fuck can you have a statue to a member of a quasi terrorist organisation which is intent on civil and criminal disorder. Scum.
No planning permission ... and a rich white male artist jumps on the bandwagon and gets all the credit !!!
Lol the sculptor is white
Good work for a little grass roots organisation not sponsored by a psychopathic Nazi billionaire.
racists in the replies make me laugh
RuleBrexitannia Note from the report by Archie Bland that it was only a ‘supposed’ threat to Churchill’s statue. Let’s retweet and make Archie aware that it was NOT a ‘SUPPOSED’ threat.
For as long as the new state stands, those who view it might affirm that all races are 100% equal. We all earn the same scores at school and have identical levels of intelligence and capacity. The only differences are physical; merely skin tones and facial features.
PULL IT DOWN!
A step in genocide is to warp a nations history to disconnect the natives from their past and county. The invaders then will usually deface historic sites/monuments to further de-stabilise the native population so that structures showing their dominance are in full view.
Chuck the wretched thing in the canal.
Let’s go and ripe it down the same way they ripe the last one down
Fugly.... Rip it down and send it out to sea...
so taking down the statue of a slave trader to be replaced by a representation of a terrorist, bigoted organisation. genius. in a years time when blm have finished killing people, trashing businesses etc. who are we gonna call to pull this one down?
RuleBrexitannia What are the odds on someone daubing it with white paint.
Sounds like that might be flammable. Let's hope nobody pours petrol over it and sets it on fire.
This has to be a joke!!!!
Is this not a racist act in itself
It does not matter!! WE take down ALL statues!! WE are “revolutionaries”!! ☠️🤡
So are we officially a communist country now?
The Karen’s have raised a statue of their all mighty super Karen
Love this.
Racist and horrible doesn't belong in out citys
Discriminatory against all other activists who basically did the same thing as her...
I don't think the statue is Black enough. It doesn't fully represent the BLM movement.
If someone then goes and topples this one down will they then get a statue put up of them?! Would it have been a more powerful statement to leave it empty?
We love radical Bristol!
😂😂😂😂 loving salty gammon tears
Nice statue.Good for tourism too.Tells an interesting story.
Petition to keep it:
Gross. Colston was far better than that eye-sore.
There you go flag Twitter🇬🇧🏴, another statue for you to now protect. Oh, wait? No? It's a statue of a person of colour? Therefore it goes against your agenda? Well I say... 🤔
Take it down! BLM is an Marxist, antisemite racist organisation. You don't want a statue of that! Take it down!
This put a big smile on face this morning. It's beautiful. I love it.
TracyBrabin Haven’t we got any black artists? He could at least have make it from the blood of slaves ! paronising BlackLivesMatter
There areba lot of ❄️in these comments
Na na don’t tear her down just give her a make over paint her white from Afro to toe
Gross. Coulston was better than that eye-sore.
WTF
The kind thing to do is to find out where the lady lives and deliver it to her house as lost property
Of all things, they replaced it with a thug Even a statue of a pigeon doing a poop would have been better
Beautiful statue, unfortunately it will also be decapitated or ripped down. The way forward would of been to have both statues next to each other, so the full story could have been taught. A much more powerful statement and lesson for future generations.
White artists matter.
Time for it to be torn down. We don’t want a symbolism of Marxist ideology anywhere.
The fuck is wrong with the people? AllLivesMatter
Greenpeace it doesn't have planning permission, so down it will go!
Nazis: Implement socialism ! BlackLivesMatter: Implement socialism ! Nazis: Defund the police ! BlackLivesMatter: Defund the police ! Nazis: Lets get rid of the history ! BlackLivesMatter: Lets get rid of history ! See any emerging pattern here ? :)
Well it looks like I'll be going to Bristol in the future to take a massive shit on this statue....
'leads a secret mission' Not any more, Graun.
Tale it down immediately.....glorifying rioters, hooligans and thugs...in the recent BLM RIOTS.
terrorist
This has got to be a joke right?
The UK flourished from our links to the trans atlantic slave trade. A statue paying tribute to the souls that were displaced brutalised and who perished would have been more appropriate ! This is just gonna trigger the racists!
🤔that sure was fast building a statue. Must of started on it months before all the nonsense started. Planned.
wearescum_ Pull it down.
Greenpeace Matters not ... Bronzed by the elements Years, tears & too many beets Some ill thought hero Will energe too ... Tear it down in haste In darkness it will Also fall, From grace In times of, Inn Decision History book revisions. Scared & battle torn It will meet fate Later see
TracyBrabin Is Marc Quinn white by chance? patronising BlackLivesMatter
Groovy! 🙂
a lying vandal! quite appropriate for the world we now live!
vauldicarelse Very very nice..
Seems to me pulling down a grade 1 historical monument and then bunging up an equally racist, devisive statue without and public consultation is unbelievably wrong. Pull it down.
Terrorist! Remove it at once!!!
Hope that won't be there very long.
You know its actually quite refreshing to see a statue of a female.
'Leftist activists arrange self seeking act with leftist campaign group which pretends to be a news organisation'. Fixed that headline for you.
This has got to be fake, right ? Putting up statues of vandals !
Actually embarassing & divisive .
I preferred the Jimmy Saville one tbh 🤣🤣
The great replacement...
_Sowellsista_ Lol, just admit these egomaniacs only accept statues of themselves. No context or discussion about statues, they just want to see themselves as heroes. What did this blm protester do? Be part of witch trials, mob hunts & modern day swj inquisitions?
Polarised responses... interesting.
wearescum_ Tear that shit down
Love it, exactly what I'm talking about playful StatuesMustFall BlackLivesMatter “How our statues might help us find a way through our messy past”
The government need to have this taken down.
I thought statues were erected to honour a lifetime of achievement or service to the country. This is like a mindless opportunistic selfie from someone who is desperate for attention in statue form. Combine that with all the gammon comments and you have toxic soup.
You missed ‘illegally’ in your headline.
This is not the brexit I voted for. This is are England 🏴
I hope it's torn down.
RuleBrexitannia How Dare You.
TracyBrabin I would really like to understand why Tracy Brabin, a Labour MP, thinks it’s responsible to retweet this...?
Who'd of seen this one coming? 🙃
If this doesn’t come down immediately, then we really are lost as a country.
Shameful representation of support for criminals, terrorists & violent extremists. PULL IT DOWN !!!
Pull it down
This is hysterical ... I guess any waster can get a statue these days which will render them all totally pointless.
Tear it down lads.
Surely it should be a 6ft can of Natch? Because from my 5 years living in Bristol that’s an icon they can all rally behind.
I’ll give it a week before it’s pulled down
Vile Goading
Time to build a bunch of statues for white people in Seoul because Korea is, disgustingly, far too Korean.
That marxist monument won't be up long. You read it here first
It's brilliant news, after the extensive public consultation. Democracy in action.
Brilliant.
Now that is History
RuleBrexitannia not very secret. oh! its the Guardian ? say no more.
A statue of a rioter?
Pull it down. Any statue that replaces Colstons statue should be decided democratically. Not replaced by a radical group left or right.
A big day for kneeling Guardian.
Yup black power salute of the black panthers.... Sterling job..... Go the whole hog and put up statues of Lenin and Karl Marx, Russia probably has several spare ones they don't use anymore 🙄 we could get on the cheap
Without the councils consent so needs to come down.
It says a lot about the ill thought through knee jerk reactions of 2020. So maybe it does work. The pose should be a selfie though.
So a statues been erected illegally in place of a statue that was torn down illegally too. Is that how it works nowadays? No need to go through the proper channels & ask the council permission? Of course it’ll be another thing to accuse society of being racist when it comes down
Bold move. Good luck with that 👍
Is that legal? Surely the majority of Bristolians need to make decisions like this? I suspect the police have given up and gone on holiday! Bristol
Bet they won’t take it down, because that would be ‘RaCiSt’
Sometimes, I just wish I was a pigeon.....
So many people are moaning that this didnt have the 'proper planning', its art, who cares? Banksy doesnt get planning permission and his work is protected! It's a beautiful piece of artwork and I really hope it's not taken down.
That'll age well i'm sure
Yeah I’m gonna go check this out
No planning permission. Tear it down. What’s good for the goose... BLM is a corrupt marxist organisation.
Pull this illegal structure down please
So many gammonflakes getting upset over this one 🍿
We should not have mob rule
Anyone got a chain and a Landrover...or better still a JCB?
This should be removed. Totally disgraceful act. Rioting and looting is nothing to be celebrated about. Who’s idea with that, I wonder. There are more worthy Bristolians
Ugly.
Accidents happen...
Get a mob over there, pull it down.... that's how Bristol operates in 2020 right?
Why erect a statue of an anonymous black person that supports marxism and the break down of family ideals?! Plenty of ispiring historic black figures to choose from that genuinely helped the black population. Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, Sir Learie Constantine to name a few
I think replacing a statue of a race who bought slaves with the race who sold them is offensive
Leaves a lot to be desired from an aesthetic point of view 🤔
DrJoEsra This is appalling, simply giving in to leftist anarchic protesters. This is not democracy in action it is pandering to minorities who break the law. This council should be ashamed of themselves. What will they do if someone tears this down.
Take it down. Its an unofficial illegal act, with no democratic mandate, planning or council approval & is also of someone completely unknown. This act sets an appalling precedent ie. angry mob tears down statue, get a protestors effigy as replacement. The Guardian is complicit.
So let me get this right, if I get together a bunch of thugs we can go and tear this down too? It’s a hateful and divisive symbol after all, that’s the standard in 2020, correct?
Rather a Banksy piece of art that suits the entire city
Love this idea
THAT IS AMAZING LET ME GET MYSELF TO BRISTOL.
afuahirsch your proud moment. ☺️
That didn't take long .
Replacing a statue of a globalist coloniser with a modern globalist coloniser
RuleBrexitannia Pull it down
Pathetic.
That should unite everyone 🤔
'Statue of man who contributed massively to Bristol's development replaced by figure embodying violent communist movement.'
_Sowellsista_ Tear it down. Put Colston back up. Colston deserved a statue.
Good to see this.
It’s a load of bollocks
don't honour thugs and criminals Reidmustfall
TEAR THE BITCH DOWN
Cringe
Wish I lived in Britain so I could help take it down
Bristol council won’t have the guts to remove it
All art should inspire conversation about its meaning and purpose. We benefit by taking part in that conversation and as a result we gain an understanding of the views of those we disagree with. This is an important work of art.
RuleBrexitannia Pull it down
And what is that supposed to do for the population?
Pull it down, this country isn't run by mob rule!
Ha that was a silly thing to do. Statue Wankers!
Grab your copy of Solzhenitsyn Gulag sure resonates of the same
RuleBrexitannia That WILL be pulled down.
Let me guess, if people tried to pull down this crap the police would be straight on them ? Funny that. People of Bristol voted for Colston to stay, yet 30 thugs and vandals, the usual 1% lefty loonies, decided to pull it down for their own selfish reasons. Get this rubbish down.
What a load of bollocks how is that ok?
To all the White Supermacists raging with anger rn😘
“Middle aged white male artist uses privilege to publicise his work” This should have been a black artist’s work. Quinn could have supported that to happen, thereby being an ally rather than taking over. It’s a start, but again, it’s white ego at the forefront.
When it goes up, pull it down.
The sound of hot Gammon crackling and spitting in the morning. Extra crispy.
The sad thing is the precedent it can set. This example suggests that civil discussion followed be democratic process to agree and implement change can be replaced by unauthorised removal, destruction and replacement. This enables prejudice people in society, doesn't combat them
I wonder how long before someone decides to throw it in the sea.
Vile
So who's going to pull this Marxist shit down?
I give it a week, and it'll become a rallying point for the rabid right
So I understand this has been done without broad discussion with the people of Bristol, without planning permission, without agreement from elected representatives, without agreement on who should be depicted. It cannot stay, should not stay until these things happen.
I have money on it being tore down within a week.
The triggered right are going to lose their minds over this! Snowflakes
Love it! A Bristolian to be proud of! I just hope it lasts a while before the racists try to tear it down.
Absolutely love to see it
Those appalled at the removal of statues celebrating the lives of people who got rich by kidnapping and selling other human beings will all be saying today: 'We don't agree with what this woman did, but she is part of our history and a lesson to us all.' BlackLivesMatter
Comment section is gonna be Lit 🔥🔥
Sure would be sad if someone, you know, defaced it.
8yr old Secoriea Turner is being buried today & you're celebrating the BLM group! Disgraceful! SecorieaTurnerMatters Children'sLivesMatter
This Jen Reid obviously has delusions of grandeur. The only people who erect statues of themselves are dictators and egomaniacs.
Interesting the Guardian has the “scoop” on this an hour after it happened, and appears to be the only newspaper with a full article and quotes with those involved; almost as if they knew it was taking place beforehand...
Not a wise choice at this moment of time. Act surprised when it is pulled down.
It is a shining example of how we should honor the criminals instead of heroes. All you have to do, if you want a statue then you have to pull down some British ones in a country that is originally not yours, kill it because it is shouting racism at you and hey, you have a statue
Why ? Stop putting any statues up as fools just tEar them down
Get a statue of Tom and Jerry up there
The Jimmy Saville mannequin didn’t last long....
The interesting thing here is that IF it is against planning permission and should be removed under law whether the law is enforced. If not it sets a dangerous precedent and I would expect lots of statues from both sides popping up all over the place and there to be chaos.
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Oh Lord!!!! Watch as some freaks would lose their fu*king minds.
Powerful story! I am the aunt of George Floyd & this story moved me when I saw that statue of that protester. Seeing things like this , validates that my nephew death is not on vain.
You can't rewrite history otherwise how can we learn from the good and the bad? It's stupid!
so someone gets a statue up for a weekend of drunken vandalism
Sauce for the goose and all that.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
AnnaAnthro Until somebody else will push it down in the endless war of statues and symbols. maybe we need more reflection on the emptiness of symbols...and the need of a real action to help those around us: I mean the humans wherever they suffer.
Good!!!
Epic fail reminiscent of Gaugin's 'exotic' paintings. She looks like she's on an auction block.
Nonsense. Who approved the statue?
The Gammons are extra salty today
This is fantastic
'It came as a complete surprise to the authorities, who are yet to announce their plans for the location'. This seems the default position.
😡😡😡
Equally as offensive. BlackLivesMatter scum
'Society lionises self-declared enemies of that society'
Tear it down!
Should be taken down right away. A suitable statue for all the people of Bristol should be erected reflecting the diversity of the people who live there. BLM simply does not.
Great choice Bristol 😍😍 👏🏽👏🏽
Oh how heroic and brave!! Replace one Racist with another.. At least Colston was a real piece of history even if he was a piece of shit by today’s standards.. The protester is a piece of shit by all standards because they’re Racist and push an ideology rather than fight racism
That is one statue that needs to be pulled down
Yes!!!
Good
this is absurd. Now we are turning everything into this? Making race an even bigger issue? WTF! This won't last and there will be an even bigger race war to come because of this sort of stupidity.
Lots of triggered racists plotting to pull this dien. Marc will know this and have the cameras ready. I how they just keep putting it back up. Every time they pull it down. That would be art.
wonderful
DouglasKMurray .... your thoughts?
All the BLM protestors are virtuous white liberals who are probably closet racists
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