Reagan Statue
- 5 July 2011 05:04113192
William,14 pints a night, Hague grovelled like Uriah Heep yesterday as he unveiled a statue of President Reagan outside the US Embassy in London. Reagan would have been a 100. I'm not sure who pays for it or what the process is for obtaining permission to have a statue erected...however the pigeon poo collector and dog pee-ing station is there for all to see.
There are monuments created to exceptional living people - a statue of Nelson Mandela was unveiled in 2007 in Parliament Square, for instance, and earlier that year a bronze of Thatcher was erected in the House of Commons (are you having a laugh)
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It was also reported that one MP was calling for Tony Blair to be honoured in the same way, but there wasn't much enthusiasm.....I wonder why?
So who would forumites like to see set in stone in Dover and why? - Oh they have to be dead first -so no Mafia style concrete wellington type suggestions about the left wing guinness swilling lotharian style forum editors,nor right wing hang em and flog financial advisors or absent loud mouth northern opinionated poles living in Jersey.
- but exception to the rules are wine bar owners who refuse to have stannah stair lifts installed for the elderly and inembriated or any female forumite that fails to cook,wash,clean ,iron and take care of her husbands matrimonial rights both up or downstairs. Now if that doesn't get me in hotwater nothing will 
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 5 July 2011 06:52113195Thank you for saying something nice about me Marek!!
Reagan was a great US President and it is only right that this British ally should be honoured.
As for who should have a statue erected in Dover - well, what about Dame Vera?
Incidentally - how about making her a Freeman of Dover too?....... - Brian Dixon
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5 July 2011 07:06113196just wondering if it could be relocated some where else,like outside a public loo on route 66.
- Brian Dixon
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5 July 2011 07:08113197barryw,i and many others could recomend better resipiants of the honor of freeman of dover.like bill newman etc. - 5 July 2011 07:18113199Barry
With regard to Dame Vera don't you mean '' Free-person''
Thank you for saying something nice about me Marek!!
That just wouldn't be me. You know I love you really
Brian
Excuse my ignorance but why Bill Newman.Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - Keith Sansum1
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5 July 2011 07:25113201BRIAN;
I'm not one for honouring in such a way, certainly there are more deserving cases than these, if we have to go that route.
I share your view on bill newman if it came to freeman of Dover, knowing bil, and working closely with him for 30 years i saw his many talents.
He had a talent of making everyway feel at ease nomatter what there background, but he usd to also go that exra mile.
I recall one small example with bill who asked me to go with him to calais to meet the mayor as bill had been a dover mayor in the past, and this was another great friendship bill had formed,.
Bill spoke little french, and the mayor spoke little english, but that didnt deter bill, in bills broken french he managed to string a few words together and the two got on like a house on fire througout the long day, it was fantastic day, to see the 2 getting on so well, but this was again because bill would go that exttra mile to make an effort.ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 5 July 2011 08:38113213Marek - no freeman is the correct term, lets have none of that pc word butchery.
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5 July 2011 10:24113219marek,long suffering teacher and district/kcc counciler and a good egg all rounder. - 5 July 2011 11:31113224I cannot think of another person who would be more popular immortalised and placed with pride on the seafront. Dame Vera will forever be associated with Dover and her popularity will continue.
She qualifies more than anybody else to have a statue erected and become Freeman of Dover. The kudos to the town would be more immense than if it was anybody else.
It really would be good for the town in so many ways. - 5 July 2011 11:37113225Thomas Tallis, one of the world's greatest composers of choral music who began his career in Dover.
- 5 July 2011 11:40113227Hardly forever associated with Dover though... probably find Topper a more popular choice
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5 July 2011 13:13113241maybe not bother at all??ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 5 July 2011 14:06113249Vera Lynn on the seafront and Churchill looking out from the balcony on the cliffs.Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 5 July 2011 19:23113273Dame Vera obviously, but Tallis, a master musician, really should be more celebrated locally.
- 5 July 2011 19:37113274i think that ronald reagan was underated and that his work should be noted.
his performance in "bedtime for bonzo" was electrifying, he very nearly upstaged the monkey. - Brian Dixon
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5 July 2011 19:46113277the regan films where all b movies,but the one thing that stands out and makes me chukle is the spitting image sketchs.the best one was titeld the prisedents brain is missing.cortelled to be a shriveld wallnut doing a world tour. - 5 July 2011 23:05113300Dame Vera is active, as we know, in Dover too.
Marek pointed out that the statue cannot be to a mortally living person.
So that would leave William the Conqueror ... ooopps
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 5 July 2011 23:19113304 Earl Godwin of Wessex, the father of king Harold Godwinson, was ordered by king Edward the Confessor to ravish Dover after a battle in the town between the Dovorians and a group of armed Normans.
He refused and went into exile instead. This should entitle him to the honarary statue in Dover.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 5 July 2011 23:29113305"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."
A couple of Reagan quotesMarek
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