And It's Not April 1st Yet!

• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 4,316
  23 February 2016     10:58310928
  #1       report
  You couldn't make it up.
  
  
  We could probably see it from Dover, not that I would want to!
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 4,316
  23 February 2016     11:01310929
  #2       report
  For some reason I can't add a link. It's a Kentonline feature about a large statue of Mrs Thatcher at the University of Kent.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Chris

  • Forum Admin
  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Oct 2009
  • Posts: 357
  23 February 2016     11:05310930
  #3       report
  http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/students-to-vote-on-construction-91397/
• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 4,316
  23 February 2016     11:16310931
  #4       report
  Thanks Chris.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  23 February 2016     11:50310932
  #5       report
  Too obviously a student prank to be taken seriously, next we will have Labour supporting students proposing one for Scargill.
• Guest 977

  • Registered: 27 Jun 2013
  • Posts: 1,031
  23 February 2016     13:24310936
  #6       report
  Not necessarily Howard, you'd be surprised at the demographic of the students there.
  
  And surely any memorial to Scargill would go down rather than up
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
  • Posts: 3,259
  23 February 2016     14:40310938
  #7       report
  Next thing will be some nutter proposing a giant Roman Soldier for Dover seafront?
  Arte et Marte
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  23 February 2016     15:41310941
  #8       report
  That will be for April the First Reg, too funny to be real.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  24 February 2016     12:14310985
  #9       report
  Covered by one broadsheet I suspect tongue firmly in cheek.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/margaret-thatcher-statue-set-to-be-erected-as-kent-university-conservative-association-petition-a6892801.html
• Bob Whysman

  • Registered: 23 Aug 2013
  • Posts: 1,938
  24 February 2016     13:09310989
  #10       report
   Reginald Barrington wrote:

  Next thing will be some nutter proposing a giant Roman Soldier for Dover seafront?

  
  
  I see where you are coming from Reginald....I reckon you would need a legion of Roman Soldiers to be effective!
  Do nothing and nothing happens.
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 14,118
  24 February 2016     13:30310990
  #11       report
  Mr Whysman I did that myself when a town cllr it was only in the local paper about two weeks ago it is not some nutter but me.Why did I do it.?Because it would bring 1000s of members of the public from all round the world to see it and that would bring in a lot of trade for our outlets we have Roman remains and history like no other town in the UK it is where the Romans came and build parts of our great castle.
• Guest 977

  • Registered: 27 Jun 2013
  • Posts: 1,031
  24 February 2016     15:08310993
  #12       report
  It wasn't Mr Matcham or some nutter, it was Brian Philp and his team. Though I can't see tourists flocking to see a fibreglass statue instead of the real remains.
  
  http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Angel-South-guard-shores/story-28283012-detail/story.html
• Bob Whysman

  • Registered: 23 Aug 2013
  • Posts: 1,938
  24 February 2016     16:24311003
  #13       report
  Perhaps that is what the queue at Calais is all about
  
  The real remains Ray would be called a 'Bone Idol' I reckon after all these centuries. That figures....many would identify with that!
  Do nothing and nothing happens.
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 14,118
  24 February 2016     19:35311017
  #14       report
  I said it in 2002 and it was again put in the local two weeks ago by the person who runs the Dover museum not by me as I had forgot all about it so again you get it right! writer of post
  12 .
• Guest 977

  • Registered: 27 Jun 2013
  • Posts: 1,031
  24 February 2016     20:03311020
  #15       report
  I was referring, as was Reginald, to the current plan in the link that apparently already has £20,000 funding, not to one from 2002.