More Idiocy , I Hope Her Majesty Has A Good Laugh At This Over Her Morning Coffee

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/oxford-university-students-vote-to-remove-colonial-portrait-of-queen-12328108

[Peter Pedant]

I think this is post exam celebrations

we voted to rename the Boat Club ( hearties in Blazzers etc)
the Winnie Mandela Boat Club.... it was some years ago

[emmie]

not sure i would be laughing, she is head of the Commonwealth and has fostered good relations with those countries, whatever next.

[Bobbisox1]

Good morning Peter , I think it’s designed to enrage people whereas I think it’s daft, idiotic and really immature, and these are supposed to be our leading lights for the future , God help us !

[dannyk13]

Is it not time that someone starts a petition to close Oxford University?

[Bobbisox1]

That’s a great idea Danny :0)

[Peter Pedant]

// Is it not time that someone starts a petition to close Oxford University?//

outside the box thinking ! has been done before tho
1265 - universities closed as a result of unrest ( well civil war actually which the King lost) I cant remember if they were closed in the Plague Year ( 1665 that is - for those Abers history o level is a closed book ) - Newton went to woolsthorpe but doesnt mean everyone did

[Bobbisox1]

Maybe it’s a prank by the elitist of Magdalen college Oxford?

[Hopkirk]

This is being blown up bigger than it is.

This is not the university, this is a group of students altering what is on the walls of a rest room. We all change how we decorate our living areas from time to time.

Not news.

[ichkeria]

Not something personally I support at least maybe not for that reason but it is their decision, their space and the picture is safe.
Yet again tho another unhelpful intervention from a minister. It’s nothing to do with Gavin Williamson. He should keep out of it.
So should we, probably.

[Bobbisox1]

Dunno it’s doing okay on the News bulletins Hoppy ;0)
But perhaps that was the aim?

[dannyk13]

ich// It’s nothing to do with Gavin Williamson//
Of course it has, he is the Secretary State for Education.It is high time that these students spent less time on wokeism and more on what they are supposed to be at Uni for i.e studying.

[Bobbisox1]

Danny I find it highly amusing that these 20 somethings want to change history ,they never will !

[MallyJ]

Why on earth would people get upset about the removal of a picture that has been there for years and which they have never seen in situ? I find that really quite bizarre...and can't remember anyone being upset about what was on the walls, or wasn't, when I was a student...Madness and rather sad IMO. There are far more serious things to be concerned about than a picture!

[davebro]

Guns at Batasi - Richard Attenborough / RSM Lauderdale

[ichkeria]

“ There are far more serious things to be concerned about than a picture”

Tell the Education Secretary then. It’s precisely none of his business, or ours.
As Hopkirk says, a non-story to get the tabloid readers emailing in fury. This is the students own room and up to them what they legally do with it.

[MallyJ]

exactly itchkeria ... you put it far better than me ...

[MallyJ]

and I can't copy spellings either at this time of the morning!

[dannyk13]

ich// It’s precisely none of his business,//
Of course it is.

[Bobbisox1]

GW has risen to the bait unfortunately he should have said nothing at all and not given these elitists a platform

[pastafreak]

In the great scheme of things, it's a relatively insignificant occurrence. Like Hopkirk and ichkeria said, it's their space and they can do what they want. It's not as if it's been there for decades...it's just a print bought in 2013.