Prime Minister Britain expressed doubts about the correctness of a campaign to edit the whole cultural landscape of the country.
Prime Minister UK Boris Johnson urged to stop photoshop and rewrite history. The head of the British Cabinet believes that the campaign against monuments will involve the country “in a big lie”. Johnson also defended the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose monument in London vandals painted racist slogans.
British Prime Minister also said that he doubts the correctness of a campaign to edit or correction in Photoshop, the entire cultural landscape of the country. In this situation, said Johnson, you need to deal with the problem of racism, not with symbols in an attempt to rewrite the past.
Johnson also defended the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, stating that “absurd and deplorable” to see the monument former head of the state is in danger.
“Modern Britain is the product of a large set of ideas and beliefs, not all of which seem good in the current realities. Yes, Churchill was a supporter of a variety of views over his impressive career. As often happens, over time has varied, in General, and he,” wrote Johnson.
the British Prime Minister recalled that Churchill changed his view on India, and its ability to gain independence, as it is built in 40-ies of the last century mosque in Regent’s Park despite his words about Islam in the 1890-ies.
From the beginning of June in the UK, many monuments to historical figures of the country were closed by plywood boards due fears of vandalism by protesters. They took to the streets after the death in the U.S. African-American George Floyd. While in Bristol, protesters threw into the Bay the monument to merchant, philanthropist and MP Edward Colston, who in the seventeenth century, engaged in the slave trade. In London, vandals struck the racist inscription on the monument to Churchill and tried to damage the Cenotaph. For the protection of monuments came out right, including the Britain First movement (UK above all).
