To add insult to injury the bill for the restoration of the Churchill statue in Parliament Square is over a whopping £7,000. So much owed by so many…
The 12-foot Churchill was graffitied three separate times in 2020 and was targeted again in February this year when he was sprayed with red paint and slogans including “Zionist war criminal,” “Stop the Genocide,” “Free Palestine,” and “Globalise the Intifada.” Back in 2020 an Extinction Rebellion activist was fined £1,500 for daubing the statue…
These were the projected costs of restoring the statue this time:
The total emergency clean cost out of the GLA maintenance/restoration budget was £7,804.80. The police barrier hire was £734.40. A grand total of £8,539.20…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”