Ronald Reagan to be honoured with a London statue

Source: telegraph

Westminster City Council granted planning permission for the sculpture to be erected outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.

To allow the statue to go ahead, the council has changed its usual policy of allowing memorials only to people who have been dead for 10 or more years.

The application was made by Jennie Elias, the London-based president of the Reagan Memorial Fund Trust.

Steve Summers, chairman of Westminster City Council's planning applications sub committee, said: "Regardless of politics, nobody can dispute that President Reagan was a true ally of this country.



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Etiolating this cold war deviant should have stopped with that grossly tacky and overblown US state funeral.

That so much of the Reagan/Bush1 Administrations' activities is still gagged by the UK Official Secrets Act is a testament to the corruption of the Thatcher years.

a Maggie Thatcher resemblence?

by the occasional can of white paint.

Feed the birds, tuppence a bag..

all the younger folks kept saying "How can you Yanks keep electing that idiot Reagan?" My response "Firstly, I never voted for the idiot, and secondly, why don't you Brits vote his girlfriend out of office?"

I bet they enjoyed that one.

:rofl:

Best place for it would be Soho.

Unfortunately not on YouTube, for copyright reasons, but I'll describe it:

Ronnie and Maggie are at the airport, engaging in a long kiss, with extensive tongues. They part, and Ronnie says "So long, honeybun!" Then he turns to the camera, and says:

"What a marvellous lady. Too bad I'm only screwing her country!"

And good, too, as public restrooms in that part of London can be hard to come by.

that particular "bit" of London remains sealed off with concrete barriers to help prevent "attacks" whatever on the American Embassy. I'm guessing they'll remain there until at least 2030 by which time there should be less risk of blowback from the USA antics overseas.

BTW - public restrooms are readily available in the major stores just a few minutes walk away in Oxford Street.

Took a stroll through it on a Sunday afternoon after my usual stop at Speaker's Corner.

Took a photo of the American Volunteer's monument.

for pedestrian use but last time I was in the vicinity ,at night time ,you couldn't drive around it.

There are certain things they do so well...

:shrug:

i live in his hometown....we are getting a 30ft statue of ronny on a horse on our brand new river front park.

the only redeeming virtue we have is a wonderful statue of a young abe lincoln when he served in the militia.

He wrote that he spent the whole time sitting in some guy's field.

I have absolutely adored Lincoln since elementary school, but that is just silly.

His legal career, great. His legislative career great. His Presidential campaign and oratory, great. His Presidential career, super great.

His stint in the militia?

he was camped here in dixon for a few days but never saw action. that`s why we have a statue and a bronze marker on the eastern part of town.

you could never tell the difference between him and an inanimate, chiseled object in life anyway. Especially when he was acting.

Bet the Londoners will really appreciate that little reminder

There are about 1 billion people on the planet who would happily vandalize this statue.

The cult of Saint Ronald is a demented minority of intellectual midgets. Their strange and shallow belief system is probably attributable to lazy authoritarian parenting and high levels of lead, mercury, and pesticides in their childhood environments.

The rest of the human race, more than 5 and a half billion people and counting, don't know who Ronald Reagan was, which is as it should be because Ronald Reagan himself didn't know who he was. Reagan spent his eight years in the White House wondering why it was taking the studio so long to make a movie about some U.S. President no one ever heard of. But hey, a job is a job, especially for an old B movie actor.

:eyes:

I now know what I wish to be reincarnated as, and where.

Noted for corrupt politics in the 80s and 90s under Shirley Porter (a favourite of Maggie Thatcher) and David Weeks. And RW Tory politics at all times.

I had thought that Council had recently at least ceased to be quite so embarrassing - but they are true to form on this issue!

I fear to think of the circus we'll have when Maggie finally shuffles off this mortal coil. There are definitely people here who would like to canonize her.

lose their security gag on the death of QEII.

Roll on that day.

britain can officially apply to join the list of failed states now, as the quest for the anthropomorphic father-god figure goes on; and on. if the Tao has any sense of irony, someday, somewhere, a statesman will state in a public forum - "milord mayor, if you have the slightest sense of reality - tear down this statue" - and be heeded.

Fuck Raygun. Next time I'm in Simi Valley, I'll go dance on his grave.

Fuck Raygun. Next time I'm in Simi Valley, I'll go dance on his grave.