Statue memes: 26 marbelous memes and reactions about statues being taken down

First, it was Edward Colston. Now it seems a day doesn’t go by without Churchill getting a redecoration with a can of spray paint from the local Halford’s. Councils are now taking the precautionary measures to remove the racist statues of slave traders and generally shitty people before they’re torn down, as various museums wait with open arms. Whatever your view is on the protests, you’ve got to admit that if there’s anything that unified us all, it’s our collective love of memes.

God, we know how to take the piss out of anything perceivably negative that comes our way in this country. We did it at the start of 2020 with the potential of a World War Three, we’ve done it with quarantine, so there was really no chance that we’d let the statues fall without a good laugh.

1. One of GC’s many falls x

https://twitter.com/shane_reaction_/status/1270429726448984069?s=20

2. See?

Statues Statues
in 2019 in 2020 pic.twitter.com/lAF5lT3IU9

— Jo Frosts unasseptable behaviour! (@unasseptable) June 9, 2020

3. Take anything but Bobby

Times up Cunt pic.twitter.com/HQsAZHkKt8

— Scott Gibson (@BigScottGibson) June 9, 2020

4. *5 minutes earlier* “I think it’s a dud, mate”

https://twitter.com/mlothianmclean/status/1270729841374048261?s=20

5. This one isn’t going anywhere

there is one good statue in the UK and that is the vimto monument in manchester pic.twitter.com/o0pq7DvdAh

— lucy u (@lucyuprichard) June 9, 2020

6. “First Little Britain, then Gavin and Stacey – PC gone mad!”

I personally think the Winston Churchill statue should be replaced with this iconic statue pic.twitter.com/4z1XE7vXWW

— Jo Frosts unasseptable behaviour! (@unasseptable) June 8, 2020

7. Same, Louis. Same.

my plans 2020 pic.twitter.com/e674U4MFqc

— Louis Staples (@LouisStaples) June 7, 2020

8. Think about the PIGEONS

https://twitter.com/MallowNews/status/1270982850540601344?s=20

9. An elite meme format

https://twitter.com/harrisonjbrock/status/1270321374276603904?s=20

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10. All good boys deserve to remain

The only statue that deserves to exist pic.twitter.com/SF2ErXMDHy

— 🌻HAPS (@GotSomeHaps) June 11, 2020

11. Unsurprising tbh

https://twitter.com/dummyaccountfo8/status/1270017324565790730?s=20

12. They’re literally the child version of #9

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1269720695539466240?s=20

13. I mean this in the most respectful way possible… yes

TV Presenter: So with yet another racist statue being pulled down, who is next, Churchill?

Me: pic.twitter.com/lir0atI6jr

— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) June 10, 2020

14. Ain’t all of us

brits boohooing over people defacing a winston churchill statue i have to LAUGH https://t.co/HxSuclKrzX

— 🍞 (@dippIin) June 6, 2020

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15. If you know you know

https://twitter.com/S7HMIDT/status/1269668607044222978?s=20

16. Be back before dinner Wayne!

https://twitter.com/_67_Ryan/status/1269680305125896198?s=20

17. Yikes

Tommy Robinson after seeing the video of the Churchill’s statue getting vandalised pic.twitter.com/i8FHWKaeZV

— jordan white (@jordsswfc67) June 7, 2020

18. So true 😤😤😤

Guys leave the Jeffrey Epstein statue alone he put a lot of money into the banking and finance sector !

— Tiffany Stevenson (@tiffstevenson) June 7, 2020

19. Pretty much

Brits today pic.twitter.com/nlgoL42t8Y

— bron (@horoscopeh0e) June 7, 2020

20. Absolutely

After the racist statues are all sorted could someone please do this one pic.twitter.com/jRYdNxohgo

— Rebecca Hendin (@HendinArts) June 7, 2020

21. Good point

https://twitter.com/benpartridge/status/1269666460068130817?s=20

22. Exactly!

If you're saying the statues should remain in place to help educate, at school I managed to learn long division without there being a fucking statue of it in the middle of a city

— Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar) June 7, 2020

23. Hate the way this country is going >:(

https://twitter.com/NadiaKamil/status/1269671216450875392?s=20

24. Petition to replace Churchill with SpiderCamel

https://twitter.com/life_of_zahra/status/1270495461246472192?s=20

25. Beautiful to see

https://twitter.com/nerdosyndical/status/1270577483641954304?s=20

26. Oh SHIT

Statues of past racists right now are like pic.twitter.com/Y0R02mIIb1

— The Farmer (@Jbug33) June 8, 2020

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