Politically-Motivated Vandals: Damage Statue

politically-motivated vandals: The sculpture will be sited on a green in the middle of Grantham after an application was approved on Tuesday by councillors despite warnings from police that it could be a target for politically-motivated vandals . A statue of Thatcher No plinth will be too high for the vandals Dawn Foster Read more The former Conservative prime minister will stand on a green midway between two existing statues, one of the 19th-century MP Frederick James Tollemache and another of Sir Isaac Newton, who went to school in town, according to The Independent. In the face of recommendations by police that it be placed on a sufficiently high platform to make it difficult to damage the statue, the 10.5ft statue will stand on a plinth of the same height again. Nearly 30 years since her departure from Downing Street, the Lincolnshire town of her birth agreed to honour its most famous daughter with the bronze sculpture, which was originally meant to stand in London's Parliament Square. Proposals to erect the 300,000 bronze sculpture which was offered to Grantham last year after original plans for it to be erected in London were rejected were approved by local councillors meeting a stone's throw away from its planned location at a green on St Peter's Hill. Even here, however, Britain's first female prime minister continued to polarise opinion during a sometimes stormy meeting of South Kesteven district council's planning committee. One hope of those behind the plans to bring the Iron Lady or at least the bronze one to Grantham is that cash tills will rattle to the tune of money spent by visitors ranging from tourists to Thatcherite pilgrims who have long trickled into the market town where she grew up as daughter of a local grocer and mayor. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.