Britain cannot ‘photoshop’ its cultural landscape: Johnson
15 June, 2020
Primary minister Boris Johnson said Britain cannot “photoshop” its cultural landscape and sophisticated history as doing this will be a distortion of its previous, amid an ongoing row over the removal of statues of historical numbers.
"If we begin purging the record and removing the images of all but those whose attitudes comply with our own, we are engaged in a great lie, a good distortion of our history," Johnson wrote found in The Telegraph.
Johnson likewise defended Winston Churchill and said it had been “absurd and deplorable” that the ex - prime minister’s monument must have been in any danger.
“He was a hero, and I expect We am not by yourself in saying that I'll resist with every breath in my body any attempt to take out that statue from Parliament Square, and the sooner his protective shielding comes off the better,” he said.
Many monuments of traditional figures have already been boarded up as anti-racism protesters taking to the streets following death of African-American George Floyd, have put statues at the forefront of their challenge to Britain’s imperialist past.
Previously this month, a statue of Edward Colston, who made a fortune in the 17th century from the slave trade, was torn down in the port metropolis of Bristol and thrown into harbour.
Johnson can be an admirer and biographer of Churchill, plus some of those near him say he really wants to emulate him.
But Churchill expressed racist and anti-Semitic opinions and critics blame him for denying meals to India through the 1943 famine which killed more than several million people - areas of his legacy which some claim aren't scrutinised enough.
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