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imagine living in a city where the council ignore public opinion

most things are going to be but that won't include pubs I'm fairly sure.

Oh right, like I say, not aware of the history. I know reading about it today it said some locals have been unhappy about it for some time.

i think that was my point, seems this statue was in a prime location which sort of glorified him without any reference to his misdeeds but like I say, first time I'd heard of him today so I don't really know the whole context of his story.

I won't be working in Liverpool again anytime soon but would like to visit and would definitely like to visit this museum.

so perhaps replicate the Liverpool museum and stick the statue in there where the context can be appreciated rather than pride of place on a harbour but I get your point.

they've got a slavery museum up there. Apparently no holds barred acknowledgement of the citys part in the slave trade. I always meant to visit when I was working up there but never got round to it.

Jimmy Savile raised a lot of money for Stoke Mandeville but they haven't got a statue of him (I've posted that off the top of my head, please don't tell me they have).

to be honest I'd never heard of this Colston fella before today. But I've now found out he brought 84,000 slaves from Africa and 19,000 died en route. I do wonder why did we have a statue of a man like that up in the first place?

must be a different lot to those who walked through Earlsdon as that had lots of black participants.

absolutely no need to go up a motorway. Silly behaviour.

2 metres!

well I can only go on what I read and in no way would I take the word of a (tory) politician but it doesn't sound like hes going to go down a hard austerity route. Personally, this time around I can stomach a certain amount of cuts given why the government has had to borrow and who has...

read a big article on Sunak earlier today. He comes across as very adaptable, (not adaptable in a Johnson way,. changing opinions to further himself), but as someone who can see the potential uncertainty ahead, (corona,Brexit), and who can change course to suit. One of the very few Tories that...

If you look at individual instances maybe but 5his whole thing is highly political. It's just ridiculous to.pretend otherwise. If we were in the same position.as New Zealand who do you think would be taking the credit? Not the public or the scientists I can guarantee you

You cannot look at it without politics. Politics is everywhere. There are many high profile political issues in the mix of what has gone on in the last few months.

What would anyone get out of throwing acid on themself?

You can't look at this without the politics. It's a massive political issue. And if the government had been clear and consistent throughout and people had ignored them then there'd be no debate, the members of the public ignoring them would be culpable. And it's not about 5here being no...

So is your attempts to defend them through all of this. You're not stupid. You know they've made a complete arse of it. They've still got Brexit to get us through. Any sane person should be terrified at the thought

It's really not naive. Simple clear messages resonate. Get Brexit done being a prime example.