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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12878654

A pensioner has been caught on CCTV apparently spraying the word ‘b******’ onto the plinth holding a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister.

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Its installation was controversial and it has been egged and spat on – with some jokers even marking the statue as a public toilet on Google Maps.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That lady (the pensioner, not Thatcher) deserves either a rise in her state pension and/or a New Year honour, perhaps a Baroness....?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Someone mail her more spray paint.
Better yet, have 20 gallons of magenta paint delivered to her.
We must encourage this new genre of art!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

The rude word is given as:

‘b******’

I'm guessing it's ‘bollock’.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (20 children)

How is Thatcher still triggering people so much?

She stopped being PM 34 years ago and has been dead for 11 years.

Get the fuck over it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

A lot of the issues we have today stem from her privatisation and the north has never recovered. Her effect on the country has not stopped just because she's no longer PM and ultimately dead.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Please for the love of god just do the bare minimum research. It'll stop you looking like an ass.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Someone marked the statue as a public toilet on google maps, now that is kinda funny

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Cool. Crime but who cares.

Now the important question. Who the fuck paid 300k for a statue of her.

If public funds were involved. That's a fucking hanging offence.

If not. Tut tut typical sign of tory refusal to invest in mental health.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's a bargain price for a public toilet these days.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

*elderly woman

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

What a hero

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