Outlaw anyone or any council removing a statue without permission of government

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The removal of public statues by councils in the wake of the black lives matter protests are efforts to appease mobs and should not be condoned. Under these conditions it is proper for permission from the home secretary to be granted before their removal.

Statues in the UK were erected by those wishing to honour the greatness, endeavours and philanthropy of those that came before. I suggest there must have been very good and noble reasons to erect all of these statues and that perhaps these reasons may have been lost in the mists of time. A craze of history revisionism has tended to only focus on negatives and to distort. No context is given to the times in which these people lived. They are our history and should remain for people to judge.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Timeline

10 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
22 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 22 Jun 2020

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