FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator reacts infront of graffiti on a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square during a Black Lives Matter protest in London, following the death of George Floyd who died in police custody in Minneapolis, London, Britain, June 7, 2020. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/File Photo
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that Britain cannot “photoshop” its cultural landscape and complex history as doing so would be a distortion of its past, amid an ongoing row over the removal of statues of historical figures. "If we start purging the record and removing the images of all but those whose attitudes conform to our own, we are engaged in a great lie, a distortion of our history," Johnson wroteJohnson also defended Winston Churchill and said that it was “absurd and deplorable” that the former prime minister’s monument should have been in any danger.
“He was a hero, and I expect I am not alone in saying that I will resist with every breath in my body any attempt to remove that statue from Parliament Square, and the sooner his protective shielding comes off the better,” he said.
Don't they sense any broken logic when they say 'our history'? Who are 'they' a remote tribe in Amazon?
Churchill was the leader for UK in WWII. “We would never surrender”. In history, for UK, he had his piece. For his decision with India, it was in 1943, and in the war. The London bridge was falling down. I don’t want to make it beautiful, just couple facts...
How about, [WinstonChurchill] “ACTUALLY fought fascists”. antifa marxists
Rename England where it all started - - - ?
Defending British history....yikes
Poor old Churchill... can’t a racist be left alone anymore? Good old days when Englishman could dominate other countries and consider them savages, not humans. Poor old Churchill...
Hypocritical Johnson.
I know he hated the Germans so I suppose he was racist. Then everybody in England hated the Germans at that point in history.
We can't oppose OR change the history. If Churchill pulled victory for Britain is true, it is also true that he was racist and narrow minded old queer egg!! Take it OR leave it, this won't change!!!
Education in HK controlled by UK / US spies , keep brainwashing kids there that opium war was good for China, that Japan's invading China was good for China
Well he was a racist...that’s not a distortion from anything i can see from history.
Ahahaha Look. I am right. If they keep doing this dumb action, they will reach a point where they realized that almost all famous people from the west countries are racist and have slave or something like that. Just wait till they realized George Washington too. And etc 😂🤣
There needs to be a line drawn somewhere. None of us are completely free of racism.
Churchill helped save UK and Europe from NAZI domination. Who the hell hates Churchill? rewritehistory
Why can't people understand; history is HISTORY? A person can do great things even thought the also did disgraceful things! Everyone changes over time! Stop removing statues & ADD PLAQUES explaining BOTH the GREAT things they did AND the HORRIBLE things they did. Teach! Learn!
He's shown more effort protecting statues than health workers with PPE... He's an abomination of a man, not fit to hold office.
Ask the Irish. Facing rebellion in the colonies and a surfeit of unemployed soldiers, Churchill killed two birds with one stone - sending recently returned WWI veterans to Ireland to beat the populace into submission. They were called the Black and Tans.
No doubt that Churchill take a huge attrition not only to UK but also to this world. U can criticize him for some lackness but can not ignoring what he brings to us!
Well, did you hear about the other guy?
History of racism We know
If there is one thing that Winston Churchill is remembered for in India & Bangladesh it is not his heroics in the 1st & 2nd world wars but his policy of starvation in Bengal that killed an estimated 3-7 million people Not a distortion of history but complete historical amnesia
He was a good man and a great leader.
Go Boris!
Churchill one of the worlds very biggest mass murders of history! Murdered 20-30 million in India alone, add the others in Sudan-South Africa etc. One of the worst and most evil men in all of history. WW2 chats will not save him! A WarCriminal
You can start by denying visas for extremist foreign students, particularly from Africa into your universities.
You would all be homogeneous and speaking German if not for Churchill, you nimrods. I guess this happens when you teach people to read, but don’t pay attention to what they read.
He means a distortion of white HIStory and not a balanced HIStory
Anti-fascists fight the power by ummm defacing a statue of Churchill.
Was an antifascist
Imagine Great Britain without Churchill during WWII.
The same Boris Johnson who was sacked by The Times for 'distorting history'
Churchil was a racist and thought India does not derserve not freedom but starvation deaths. And he ensured death or 43 million of them. But we will not attack Britain for it.😏😏😏😏
Not saying that I know much about English history, even though I was a history major I took one class, but my friends are English and they have very differing viewpoints. Most think he was a hero but some think he was a murderer
All I see is a racist graffitiing a statue... 😏
First they'll demolish our monuments. Second they'll demolish us.
Johnson should lead by example and be 1st in line for - 'the confinement, segregation, and sterilization of a class of persons contemporarily described as the “feeble minded.”
He’s right. Statues BritishHistoryMatters
Lol because Britains history is different to how everyone else recalls it.
Boris wasting his time, 99% of these illiterate idiots don't know anything about history and are simply venting upon anything that remotely appears authoritarian or white. They'd probably deface a statue of Chaka without even knowing he was a huge enslaver of black people!!
Think the souls of 4 million dead Bengalis would disagree.
I believe Churchill said “In the future the Fascists will call themselves AntiFascists”
Fuck off to whom carries this idea
'We should be rid of a bad man and an enemy of the Empire if he died' said Churchill about Mahatma Gandhi
now ask the protestors. what would they deal with the queen?
The UK people cannot be dictated to by a coalition of revisionists, nihilists, marxists and vandals.
Everyone seems to forget that Churchill was an undemocratic-ally elected dictator.
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