Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue
The rude word has since been removed from the statue, which cost £300,000 and was unveiled in May 2022.
I love this pensioner.
Get that person a beer! 👍
If you zoom in on the pic it rather looks like they were having one while spray painting!
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.
LMAO
I'm gonna do that now.
The pensioner was put through the meat grinder because of Thatcher.
Good for him.
Edit: I can't find a picture of the graffiti. This is the best I can do:
My guess is that the word was "bastard".
I misread the number of asterisks and was really hoping it was “bitchass”
Be pretty funny if it was “white bastard”.
(Not sure if the Sam Kerr story has made headlines outside of Australia? If not my comment is in reference to that.)
One of the best things about Maggie Thatcher is she’s dead
As the saying goes, you should only say good things about the dead. So Maggie is dead. Good!
I did not attend the funeral, but I approved of it.
I don't think she'll be happy to see this, when she's looking up on us.
I'm sorry, what?! Who the fuck in 2022 thought "You know what we need? A statue of one of the most hated women in recent history!"?
The Grantham Community Heritage Association erected it through donations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Margaret_Thatcher_(Grantham)
Who on god's earth would donate to memorialize the wicked witch of Britain is beyond me though.
The fact that that needs to have disambiguation parentheses is even worse: it means there's more than one statue.
Keep doing it. Do it at night, so no one can catch you on CCTV. Make it too expensive to keep cleaning so they are forced to remove it.
No statues for traitors.
I would do it. Pull it down like a Confederate statue.
Give it the Jebediah Springfield treatment.
Try an angle grinder instead of paint.
Margaret Thatcher the Milk Snatcher
Not to mention the jungle canyon rope bridges.
I hope I'm half as cool when I'm their age.
If it's bronze, someone should hit it with a tomato based sauce. And the timing was probably intentional.
I don't know if the timing was intentional or not. It's not the first time it was appropriately vandalized.
It was, as that article says, unveiled without ceremony. They knew people wouldn't approve of it. I guess they hoped they wouldn't notice it either.
It's cute when old people do crime.
The nanas are alright
Shouldn’tve pinched me wellbeing, simple as
Based granny.
Do people still walk past and play "Ding-Dong, the witch is dead!" on speakers?
Oh man that would be so good.
I think this pensioner has a good idea and I would like her to take this idea further. Could we, perhaps, smack the statue up with a large demolition hammer?
Based.
🫡
What a ledge.
More anti thatcher energy please: https://youtu.be/IP6TRajtTfM?si=8Y0eOBvr3MYcu2UX
Good lesson prob not learnt that day
For a moment I thought this was something that happened during 8M.
