Statue memes: 26 marbelous memes and reactions about statues being taken down
Adios Churchill, it would seem
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
2. See?
3. Take anything but Bobby
4. *5 minutes earlier* “I think it’s a dud, mate”
5. This one isn’t going anywhere
6. “First Little Britain, then Gavin and Stacey – PC gone mad!”
7. Same, Louis. Same.
8. Think about the PIGEONS
9. An elite meme format
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10. All good boys deserve to remain
11. Unsurprising tbh
12. They’re literally the child version of #9
13. I mean this in the most respectful way possible… yes
14. Ain’t all of us
15. If you know you know
16. Be back before dinner Wayne!
17. Yikes
18. So true 😤😤😤
19. Pretty much
20. Absolutely
21. Good point
22. Exactly!
23. Hate the way this country is going >:(
24. Petition to replace Churchill with SpiderCamel
25. Beautiful to see
26. Oh SHIT
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