Commons leader Penny Mordaunt thanked her colleague for his suggestion and said she would "certainly" raise it with Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan.
"Clearly these will be matters that will concern many members and will involve other bodies outside of this house," she said.The Fourth Plinth hosted artwork Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by artist Yinka Shonibare in 2010 "But I shall certainly raise this with the Secretary of State for DCMS [Digital, Culture, Media and Sport] and ensure she properly consults members on their wishes as plans are taken forward."Image source,In 2009 the plinth hosted a memorial statue of Battle of Britain hero Sir Keith Park
The most recent Fourth Plinth commission was Heather Phillipson's sculpture The End which was taken down in August after two years on display., commissions for the "established icon for London" are chosen "through public consultation and decision-making by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, an independent panel of artists, journalists and curators".
This then goes to the city's mayor who "approves the winning artist based on the recommendations of the Commissioning Group", it says.
Nean61170806 No Bobby Sands an ELECTED MP should go there. The monarchy is a disgrace to this country. It’s not the 15th century… republic endthemonarchy bobbysands
Absolutely the correct decision NOT to put a statue of the queen up in Trafalgar Square.
Ok, but she deserves a grander one somewhere else in a more prominent position.
Brilliant idea ❤️
Let there be blood in the streets if anything happens to that statue! Especially if it's a muslim that tries anything!
No should be at Windsor that the place Her Majesty loved not middle of London! QueenElizabethIIMemorial Queen
Is this woman ever gonna stop costing the taxpayer money?
Aren't people starving?
Would be amazing & great history for our future generations to come & see. She was a extraordinary person & a great head of the commonwealth who fought for England in WW2.
MP's want it, they can pay for it.
Respectfully, I think this will have to wait.
AngelaH58 Glad to hear it. 👏
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. We should dismantle a really prominent one that no one recognises and claim it for QE ll
Just hope it is better than the frightful statue of Princess Diana.
Every sovereign nation should get one
Tory MPs frantically wondering how they can gain financially from this.
The USA is tearing down its statues of racists while England is erecting statues of racists...
Cool bt the Royals can pay for it. I'm sick of paying for these freeloaders. Many in UK throw insults at the poor on benefits! If they want money then I think in exchange they need to go down the jobcentre like everyone else and sign on. Better yet just stop giving them anything!
BY ALL MEANS!!
Always what the fourth plinth was waiting for.
Would be nice to see it standing with her parents statues... But I hope they get a good artist to create it
She desrves more than a space on a plinth in Trafalgar square.🏴🇬🇧
HouseofCommons trussliz She should have her own discreet statue NOT one on the 4th plinth !!! After all no one knows two of existing 3 ! To suggest putting her on 4th is an insult to her 70 years ! DailyMailUK GBNEWS LordAshcroft
I think The Queen should get her own spot. Like all the other greats. Just look at Prince Alberts memorial. It should be as impressive as that. It should be in Green Park or St James’s park.
This would make an excellent statue, her majesty in charge of her troops, riding side-saddle.
I hope it’s a different artist than the one who created the statue of Princess Diana.
Maybe lets ensure that taxpayer money is not wasted on a statue when it can be paid for privately by the royal family, a generous donor, or perhaps even crowdfunded.
Given the national mood at this time in history, this sounds like a really good Idea, but will it be life size or not I wonder?🤔 Curious
How much has her death cost so far?
New public toilet 👍
Final hurrah to imperialism,opium trade/war,colonialism,plundering/massacre/slavery of Africans/Asians
Then the family can pay for it.
FEED THE CHILDREN INSTEAD!!! FFS!!!!!
So long as the tax payer isn’t paying do what you want. We have already paid for the woman’s funeral. AbolishTheMonarchy
Careful some deranged student will find a reason to take offence.
Nonsense
AbolishTheMonarchy NotMyKing
More money spent 🙄 and they're cutting people benefits
Stop it! Leave it to the next generations to appreciate it if they justify so.
Not from Labour obviously... And don't let the unwashed, scruffy, smelly B0' Bastard's from Bristol near it...
MahsaAmini
This should go without saying. But to just put it in trafalgar square where there happens to be a space available is incredibly disrespectful, in my opinion, considering how long she served as the Queen of England. What about The Mall, or at the end of Green Park near the Palace?
Even for those charlatans it should be a no brainer
Of course it does. Feeding children didn’t though.
Feed and heat the poor instead. AbolishTheMonarchy
Well deserved after 70 years as Head of State.
things_royal Excellent
So it should
I think they should put a statue of The Queen in The long walk Windsor also.
OH FFS
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That's not big enough to do her the justice she deserves........
Queen elizabeth II WHEREVER U R, U WILL ALWAYS B IN MY HEART 🙏❤️💙💚💛🖤💜💕🙏
They would do... They get to spend your taxes on it whilst they can't even do a damn thing about energy in the country except take out loans to give you a 'handout'... Anyone else would be blacklisted as inability to pay what it owes!!!
Please don’t let whoever did that hideous sculpture of Princess Diana design it
Pigeons will be pleased.
Surely a stand-alone statue, on the scale of Queen Victoria’s, is most appropriate? Not a minor artwork, shoved onto a temporary plinth!
Waste of money
QUEENELIZABETHII deserves more and more... God repose her soul. Amen.
Her Majesty The Queen QueenElizabethII should be recognised. She was an amazing Monarch who served our nations for for over 70 years 💞 I am sure many tributes should be considered 💞 Everyone should also plant a tree in her memory with QGCanopy 🌳
Why don't you stick her next to the Ariel and Prospero statue outside BBC Broadcasting House? That's what she would have wanted.
Mine Too 👍
No thanks
Need that and more
She deserves a hundred statues
Please don’t let Kahn commission some edgey leftist prick to do it and make her a free bleeding transsexual with a dick and a giant pink afro or some shite.
thatsok not toopompuous
Ohhhhh Gaaawd!
NO! Should be at Windsor!
BanFracking first!
I would hope so! She is definitely deserving of a statue.
More money spaffed up against a wall.
She’s in hell now for shielding her nonce son.
Elizabeth The Beloved.
👎 They had no choice
Surely there are better things to spend money on.
How long will it be up before the minority pull it down? Don't put it in Trafalgar, awful choice.
Awesome idea.
Pigeons will love it! 👍
Sculptor should be John W Mills, admired by The Queen
Please for the love of god and the Queen. Dont get any Guinness World Record holders to do it. We all saw what happened to the mural... GuinnessWorldRecord
Oh cool, another gender-neutral public toilet!
Is charlie funding this since he isn't paying 40% Inheritance tax?
Who?
Exactly what we need. A statue.
Fuck that I want a pro taxidermist on the job, a statue is just not gonna cut it. Get her propped up all skeksis like and throw in some animatronics so she can hit the griddy for a pound. Like one of those mini cars in shopping centres.
I hope a statue of her gets put next her mum and dads
They can damn well pay for it! No offence to Her Majesty, but these thieving shites have just gone too far!
QueenLilibet_ Put it somewhere of great honor!
That didn't take long.....
She should be on Nelson's colum. If you know what I mean 🤓
A few British statues; seems a good idea; we seem to have plenty of foreign people ones.
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Not until all those who are hungry are fed. Not until we get out of this cost of living crisis. That would mean more to the Queen than a statue.
Jesus! Does no-one in the so-called corridors of power have one iota of imagination? There are so many more creative & engaging ways of commemorating people’s lives & achievements than erecting yet another pedestrian statue.
Protect it!
If a statue of HM Queen Elizabeth II is to be commissioned and erected, then it would be most suited along the Mall. Perhaps next too or close to her parents?
Ffs don’t let the same person do it that did the Diana one that’s dreadful!
Why not in the Mall with her Mum and Dad
Relegated to the fourth plinth
There should be no question about it god bless our Queen
Oh come on !!! Not with taxpayers money I hope
What a ridiculous idea. The woman should not be an add on sitting on a plinth leered over by that lothario Nelson. She deserves a memorial equal to Queen Victoria on the mall or Albert in Kensington & who says it has to be in London anyway I think it should be in Windsor.
Yes, nothing says this is Britain than an admiral looking down on a Queen.
Wrong place
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They can bloody pay for it.
Not sure a dreary slab of metal, putting her on a par with Napier, Adams & boozy womaniser George IV, all below Nelson, is much of a tribute. Modern statues are dinosaurs. How can a statue capture the humanity shown in the photo at the top of the thread? (1/2)
OMG Red Letter Day ! I’m agreeing with something posted.
Oh dear.
Victoria embankment gardens
GreatBritain is on the best way to become a museum of former glory Another statue will help whom with what? Nobody has any idea how to produce new glory w/o a war Well, nobody but Scotland when becoming independent ScottishIndependence2023
Get it done.
What about the public?
Why bother... The leftists will be pulling it down in 6 months..
2nd fiddle to Nelson?
Who is paying for that?
Haven’t we done a memorial already?
I would suggest several statues of the great lady.. All depicting a different time of her reign.. Strategically located - Of the highest quality - She was the best!!
Well it wouldn’t look good if it didn’t now would it
Will be great to see the new statue in Trafalgar square 🇬🇧👍 - it should really piss off the leftie woke statue haters!
Like this?
I'd have thought it would have worked better in Windsor with Trafalgar square being the traditional location for protest rallies to be held.
No, keep the fourth plinth as it is. The Queen deserves better than merely being on the fourth plinth of a larger statue.
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Surely a statue would be best placed with those of her Mother and Father?
There are so many timelines, but the young Elizabeth working on a truck during WWII would be the best depiction of her majesty.
I figure they’ll go bust paying for statues of their idols. 👀
Yes indeed but really doesn't seem enough to me considering her service to the country
Just put the interest rates up even more and we will all be happy to pay for it…
I don’t think the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is prominent enough. I’d like to see it in front of the palace and move Victoria’s statue to the square.
She should be commemorated with something as grand as Queen Victoria was. The fourth plinth is hardly comparable. Even The Albert Memorial is more impressive.
I hope any memorial is in the scale of the Victoria memorial out side buck house not just a run of the mill statue in a corner of Trafalgar Square it needs to be big and bold given she was our longest reigning monarch
It's an excellent idea.
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