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3. There is speculation from Cybernats that it's hardcore Unionists
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:46 PM
Jun 2020

Although there appears to be no evidence of who did it one way or another.

The situation is not helped by some of the choices of statues targeted by anti racist protestors being rather odd. For every example of something that does need to go such as the Green Man and Black's Head pub sign in Ashbourne, Derbyshire you get some really daft targets such as statues of Earl Grey (the Prime Minister who abolished slavery in the colonies) and W.E. Gladstone.

And on the other hand the far right have gone from posing by war memorials (not targeted by protestors) to targeting statues of Nelson Mandela.

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