maggi Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Could we get it made by the artist who designed the animal in the Millenium Galleries - the piece made from old cutlery - so that it allows vision through the object? Just for info, that sculpture is "Barking up the Right Tree" by Johnny White. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firecracker Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 And that's £150,000 too much!!! And looking at the league tables for all four divisions, do you honestly believe the "fall over the ball when trying to control it and miss an open goal" Nags Head brigade who play for our local sides deserve £190,000 or more a year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me-and-pippo Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Seeing as Tony's vocal expression is a load of this, i have now found a more appropriate place for his statue............ This is the best place for him don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 You have to be very careful when considering erecting statues of national leaders, they aren't always popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me-and-pippo Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 You have to be very careful when considering erecting statues of national leaders, they aren't always popular. Tony i thought you was going to give me rollaking for my contribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAIRBOY Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Overlooking the paddock at Sedgefield racecourse where the also-rans are unsaddled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorkerSWFC Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 You have to be very careful when considering erecting statues of national leaders, they aren't always popular. The city would be up in arms. :clap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrwholloway Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Let me have a suggestion - how about a bronze statue with a brass neck of Mrs Thatcher instead, with one foot on a miner's helmet and a dole queue behind (and underneath) the other foot, with a plaque detailing her record - mass unemployment, crime doubling, repossessions running through the roof, negative equity - and we did have the Falklands War which resulted in the deaths of 260 service personnel - still around 80 more than Iraq and Afghanistan combined, with a pocket calculator in the hand without the handbag as a tribute to the fact that she didn't seem to know which year came 150 years after the Falklands became British in 1833 (Galtieri had promised his people that British rule wouldn't last 150 years on the Falklands - meaning an invasion before 1983), which begs the question "Why wasn't the Argentinian invasion prevented in the first place?" Perhaps with this reminder in every town and city throughout the land, the ungrateful amongst us might show a bit more appreciation of Blair. Might want to re-assess a little there I think... To what does this country owe the past 15 years of consecutive growth? I think you will find it was the reforms that happened in the 80s. They were painful and they were not done as they should have been in many ways (there was nowhere near enough help given to those who lost their jobs and way of life), but they stopped the national debt spiralling out of control and paved the way for the growth now that Gordon Brown seems intent on frittering away. As for the Falklands, surely Blair is in a far worse position compared to Mrs T? After all, at least two cabinet Ministers immediately offered their resignation for failing to foresee the events. Who has gone from Blair's cabinet for the monumental failure in Iraq? For another thing... we won in the Falklands... I can't see us winning in Iraq... First person to lob an egg at a Blair statue wins kudos from me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarSparkle Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Might want to re-assess a little there I think... To what does this country owe the past 15 years of consecutive growth? I think you will find it was the reforms that happened in the 80s. They were painful and they were not done as they should have been in many ways (there was nowhere near enough help given to those who lost their jobs and way of life), but they stopped the national debt spiralling out of control and paved the way for the growth now that Gordon Brown seems intent on frittering away. As for the Falklands, surely Blair is in a far worse position compared to Mrs T? After all, at least two cabinet Ministers immediately offered their resignation for failing to foresee the events. Who has gone from Blair's cabinet for the monumental failure in Iraq? For another thing... we won in the Falklands... I can't see us winning in Iraq... First person to lob an egg at a Blair statue wins kudos from me... Your post proves the validity of Firecracker's suggestion - the history of the Thatcher era is being re-written through rose-tinted glasses that simply do not reflect the real experience of the North of England and Scotland and Wales of Thatcher's government StarSparkle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffette Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Edinburgh - his home city??? Honestly, as if anyone would want a statue of that loon anywhere, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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