Elgin Marbles

[arjay]

Please let me know your opinion:-
Please vote "Yes" if we should hand them back to Greece.
Please vote "No" if we should keep them.
Or "Don't know.
I would vote yes.

[2sp_]

Yes.

Why does Britain insist on keeping things we pinched years ago?

[stuey]

What are they?

[starone]

Doesn't make much difference to me whether they stay here or go somewhere else. Come to think of it, it doesn't make ANY difference, so yes, I think I will vote yes - give them back to Greece, if they want them that badly.

[2sp_]

Here you go stuey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles

[janbee]

YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSS !!!

[corylus]

We used to play a game with marbles in a ring in a school playground.

[ChillDoubt]

Absolutely, and not before time.

[janbee]

They mean NOTHING to us., but they are of great importance to Greece. Give them back. Our "loan" of them is over !

[Old_Geezer]

They weren't pinched, they were a gift.
One doesn't give gifts back.
Treasured items are commonly in different parts of the world from where they originated.
If they have misgivings why not make an offer ?

[CheekyChops]

100% YES

[stuey]

Thanks, 2sp. Interesting. My first impression is that they should be in situ, as they say, where they originally came from.

[vetuste_ennemi]

No. If Lord Elgin hadn't pinched them/rescued them from neglect there wouldn't be any marbles to argue about.

[catswhiskas]

Yes, they should be given back.

[janbee]

They are The Parthenon Marbles not the offensively named Elgin

[EDDIE51]

Yes

[wolf63]

Let the Greeks have them back - but they have to pay the P&P costs.

[stuey]

Was Lord Elgin one of them there posh blokes who always sounded like they had marbles in their mouth when they spoke?:)

[corylus]

Yes, just like Demosthenes.....

[Dee Sa]

he who takes what isn't hisms
gives it back or goes to prisms.
my vote is yes.

[stuey]

Perhaps that's why Demosthenes took his own life: he'd lost his marbles:)