The pub has asked for suggestions for a new name
The Colston Arms in Kingsdown, Bristol, has hung up a temporary banner calling it"Ye olde Pubby Mcdrunkface" and asked people to suggest new names.A statue of Colston in the city centre was torn down and thrown into the harbour during anti-racism protests last month. "The point I'm making is that it's not my voice that needs to be heard. I'm a white middle aged man, it's the people, the community around Bristol.
Since the Colston statue was pulled down there have been several other protests calling for monuments celebrating controversial figures in the UK to be taken down or amended.
Rename it BRITISH LAUGHS MATTER
For gods sakes what a joke. Black people aren't the only ones on the planet who have faced hardship. Ww1, ww2, 50s 60s 70s 80s. all races have faced hardship going back how ever many years you chose to go back. Millions of humans have died. Its in the past, learn from it, move on
How ridiculous. The landlord couldn't give a monkey's about the name. He's only doing as a PR stunt & to not risk the wrath of the permanently irritated lefties & mindless vandals.
Weak
Brilliant name and rather apt for Saturday’s expected ps up and general anti social behaviour. God help the NHS and police this weekend, cos the government won’t
Elizabe31997557 Getting stupid now.
Yet another change for the minority but who cares when in 20 years the white man in the UK will be in the minority
I hope the temporary name sticks. It’s great
The temporary sign seriously needs to be the permanent one 😂😂 Pubby McDrunkface🤣🤣
The Black Smiths Arms.
How about ....The Barbary Pirate ...that way you can keep the Link with the Sea and also reverse the Slave Trade Link
ste_mcd new favourite pub name!
Why are people bowing to these militant scum?
Outrageous, pub has been forced to changed its name because of a left wing antisemitic group. Don't do it.
Is this a joke?
FubsyShabaroon I DEMAND that temporary name be made permanent!
WHY
In the words of the late great Magdalen Berns “your minds are so open your brains have fallen out”.
welshandbearded Nope. Pubby McDrunkface is definitely the way to go. Don’t mess with perfection.
Why don’t they call it “Get Over It”?
Pathetic keep the name
Anyone recognise these? Four arrested so far let's help get the rest in the cells where they belong 👍😷
About time should have been done a long time ago
Great sign
Then people should boycott the pub.
I never give slavery much thought except when I visit Bristol where the street names and statues speak of the city's dark past. Please get rid of these reminders and I'll never have to think about such beastly things again.
amysyang1 There's your new name!! All in favor, st and like!
What about 'Wealth of Pubs'
The Barbary Pirate
I am an Asian and although I don't condone what has happened to the late George Floyd and the rest, I honestly am getting a bit fed up with silly stuff like renaming a pub just cos it has a name of a slave trader! Things are getting a little too overboard if you ask me! 😐
Call it “the hopeless PC snowflake generation”
Just curious, if everything to do with former slave traders is being erased, does that include the legacy of all the philanthropy that a lot of them were involved in?
Keep the temporary name!
If the names so bad, why has it taken years to think about a change. I’ll have a guess that your jumping on the bandwagon and have your sheep outfit on. manup.
The Liberation..that’s what we all want..
How about 'The Bandwagon' ?
FFS
BBC propaganda machine repeat it enough times and they might even beleive it themselves! How about reporting on the lots of subpoenas served around the world and nothing reported!
😬 sorry Mike Charliesrestau1
Rather too many years late in changing the name but at least it is now happening.
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The virtue signaler.
Hope it goes bust
Surely this is offensive to the Irish / Scottish, suggesting the drunkard stereotype?
Now that's a name to be proud of, but a tongue twister, to say when you're a little bit sozzled, keep it!
The Pathetic Inn.....
Let’s change it to the BLM arms !! And let all the lefty loonies and anarchist go and get kissed in there before they spray the monuments 😂😂😂😂🤡🤡
I hope people boycott the pub, political madness !
Talk about scratching the surface !!! BLMUK .. page 1 - google maps search for Colston Bristol ..
Call it the PC Sycophants Grovelers Stop.
How about The Slaughtered Lamb
The White Hart
Another one bites the wokist dust. Though the temp name is brilliant. Until, of course, it offends another bunch of sanctimonious wokists.
How about calling it the Empire Arms?
Pathetic
The Colston Arms works for me.....
I really like Ye Olde Pubby McDrunkface. I hope they consider keeping it.
great name!
Which Bristol's citizen first contested the name Colston. Surely that would be fitting! Taken a long time to get to this point ...
Oh my God. Keep this new one.
Should call it The Snowflake
The Stroppy Gamon
This is getting pathetic. It was the way of life back then.
They should keep the temp name it works well, you'd never forget the name of the pub even when drunk lol
So people continue being offended by old slave owners but happily ignore the people plight that people facing today under modern slavery. I’d much rather people put their efforts into that rather than the storm about statues and names etc
Can't millennials think of any better than this? Wokey McWokeface idiots.
This sounds like one your twitter names doofiddy
The Pair of Bristols
Why, it's out BLM is a Marxist racist cult? So no need to pander anymore dont change the name move on
I think the temporary name is perfect. Pubby McDrunkface!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
In my town pubs re-brand and change names ridiculously frequently these days. It never got the racists frothing at the mouth like these stories do now. Makes you wonder why the stories make the news. I notice some are being faked. 😏 PMQs Yorkminster 2minutehate 1984
mattburn44 1😂😂
Oh sod it!
Loving the name. 👍🏾
How about “the second wave”. That might happen after all the easing
Pathetic.
What about The Churchill Arms? The Bended Knee ? The Barnard Castle ?
The Premier League should be ashamed forcing football players to advertise black lives matter on their shirts. They are supporting a Marxist far left anti Semitic organisation which wants to trash English history and culture.
'The slave trader'
This country is full of spineless whimps. We will regret the day we pandered to a Marxist inspired organisation. FA already have but it’s too late for them.
They need to grow a pair.
Let’s just erase all British history to satisfy minorities, we can replace with their history 👍
This should not be allowed to happen and hopefully nobody will use this pub and it will go out of business
'Oh nO, a PuB i'Ve NeVeR bEeN tOo Is ChAnGiNg ItS nAmE' Replies riddled with right-wing snowflakes.
Didn’t know Bristol’s past. Now I know why it’s one of the top racist cities in England.
How about “The Safe Space” with the slogan “where nobody can get offended”😅 also white people have to pay double
Getting free national advertising on the BBC and ITV, well played sirs (I apologise to any of you fucking wet wipes I have offended you by using the term 'Sirs')
bloody disgrace. went to the colston once. ey didnt have thatchers so i kicked off and they gave me a strongy on the house. bloody top lads. cant believe the pc brigade have ruined another part of colstons heritage bringbackcolston colston
There'll be a lot of Queen Vic's needing to change their name if this lunacy continues
1985cmw I think they should make the temporary name permanent. I’d drink there 👌
Rename it “Going woke in hopes of not going broke”
😂
Absurd
The black boy!!
'No Farmers Left' after the ANC murder squads or 'The Old Black Tyre' after Winnie Mandela or 'Postoffice Blown Up' for Nelson Mandela, it's the truth and its history.
Madness continues.
Admiral_Taverns B'ham's Bristol Ball-room...for the levity.
Keep the temporary name
Since when does anyone actually give a crap about what a pub is called? If they want to change it, that’s up to them. Things change, get over it.
A few suggestions: The Hitler Arms, The Jew & Oven, The Swan & Paedo, The Gollywog's Head, The Drag Queen's Head. Just some titles to mix it up a little.
It will keep the hipsters and middle class students happy. Bristol is full of them.
Hope they go broke....wankers.
Re name it the Grovel to murdering Marxists pub
And still ColstonHall make excuses.
. .I Noho..
Here we go again, f$cking relentless (what a perfect start to day, NOT!)
Tbh the 'clearly temporary' name adds a bit of character to the place and could encourage new people into its doors as it makes it seem more friendly in my eyes, also makes people read about the name change which adds some interesting history to it.
Suggestion:
Free pub licity. Let's hope it backfires.
But the name change is out of fear of attack, not as some moral gesture. Scaring us into such action will not win hearts be minds, it will just make us more angry and more divided.
What would they have done if the pub had been called “The Winston Churchill”?
The Topple Inn
I want a strong bloody government who cracks down on this pedantic behaviour
'Stars in your eyes' you go in all nervously and come out like your a celebrity, tonight Matthew I'm gonna be
Why do we pander to these so called BLM it's just a fad ignore it and it will go away as most black people are fed up with it
Ye Olde Bandwagon Inn
I dont think it will put of clientele so what the point 🤔😂
Pubby McDrunkface 😂😂😂 oh please name it that permanently ...
So yet again, rather than acknowledge and learn from history, we again just choose to cover it up and pretend it never happened. 5 years from now this country will have no history
I hope nobody in the UK is called Colston because they will be next....
Just fascists being fascists
FFS What a bloody joke this country is becoming.
Pub company considers changing pub name. BBC has the hot take.
GarryMartin1972 did you come up with this temporary name🤣
It could be called: Chuck Colston Inn.
Their should be a vote, do we not live in a democracy.
Temp1573245
BLM is an ''INSULT'' to the Black Community. BLM is a 'CRIMINAL Lives Matter' movement. There's a SUBSTANTIAL element of the 'CRIMINAL Lives Matter' movement that are VIOLENT EXTREMISTS 'currently masquerading' as Sincere/Harmless. NO DOUBT, There's VIOLENT EXTREMISM, Waiting.
How about renaming it 'the Colston Arms'?
Selby Leisure Centre
Where slaves actually traded in the pub?
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