Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "North London park could be renamed after Diane Abbott over slavery links" video.

  1. I do not doubt for a moment that five year olds in Brent are so well educated that they are fully conversant with Gladstone's views on the Irish Question.
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  2.  @taffy2126  Unfortunately, it seems that any monument to an old white man is fair game. In Scotland, at the moment, there is a 'demand' that a statue of David Livingstone (The explorer and missionary still widely admired and respected throughout Africa) be removed, because of his 'connection' with slavery. The connection is that Livingstone, who came from a very poor family, worked for a time from the age of ten in a cotton mill in Glasgow, for 14 hours a day. As this was just before 1833, he may have handled and sorted cotton which had been picked by slaves, and thus benefitted from slavery. Honestly, I am not making this up!
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  3.  @taffy2126  Given the level of education in the UK, I suspect that those few people who have even heard of William Joyce probably think that he wrote 'Ulysses.'
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