{"id":1201832,"date":"2022-01-09T13:04:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201832"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:04:55","slug":"george-osborne-backs-colston-statue-smashers-compares-to-king-killer-cromwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-osborne-backs-colston-statue-smashers-compares-to-king-killer-cromwell\/","title":{"rendered":"George Osborne Backs Colston Statue Smashers, Compares to King-Killer Cromwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-osborne-backs-colston-statue-smashers-compares-to-king-killer-cromwell%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-935197260-e1641727335524-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Tory grandee and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/08\/14\/farage-tears-osborne-pasty-faced-bstard-id-dragged-weasel-neck\/\">David Cameron\u2019s former right-hand man<\/a> George Osborne has backed the BLM radicals who destroyed Edward Colston\u2019s statue in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritish jury system again acquits itself brilliantly,\u201d the former Chancellor of the Exchequer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/04\/23\/miscarriage-government-osborne-treasurys-brexit-predictions-out-100-billion\/\">Brexit fearmonger<\/a>&nbsp;said of the so-called Colston Four being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/06\/blm-statue-toppling-colston-four-case-found-not-guilty\/\">found not guilty<\/a> of criminal damage despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, after the judge instructed jurors to consider whether the statute of the long-dead Christian philanthropist and parliamentarian \u2014 transfigured into a hate figure over then-unremarkable business ties to the slave trade \u2014 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/17264396\/colston-statue-new-evidence-could-lead-to-retrial\/\">\u201cindecent or abusive\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWould have been stupid to convict those who pulled down Colston statue. Thomas and Oliver Cromwell pulled down many more statues,\u201d Osborne said, referring to the former&nbsp;Lord Great Chamberlain of Henry VIII who helped to drive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyhit.com\/guides\/churches-ruined-during-the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries\/\">destruction of swathes of England\u2019s architectural and religious heritage<\/a> during the so-called Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the infamous Member of Parliament who rebelled against Charles I and ultimately had him beheaded.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">British jury system again acquits itself brilliantly. Would have been stupid to convict those who pulled down Colston statue. Thomas and Oliver Cromwell pulled down many many more statues. What\u2019s dumb is setting up bureaucratic statue commissions after the fact<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Osborne (@George_Osborne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/George_Osborne\/status\/1479224346698821632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Both the former Cromwell, ultimately executed by his king as a traitor and heretic, and the latter Cromwell are strange figures for an alleged conservative \u2014 and member of Her Majesty\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2016-11-11\/former-chancellor-george-osborne-becomes-a-member-of-the-order-of-the-companions-of-honour\">Order of the Companions of Honour<\/a>, no less \u2014 to invoke as role models.<\/p>\n<p>Even those who believe Oliver Cromwell was right to defend the privileges of the House of Commons against a king accused of having absolutist tendencies generally regard him as a prime example of the dictum that \u201cabsolute power corrupts absolutely\u201d, given he ultimately assumed the essentially dictatorial role of Lord Protector for himself and passed it on to his son, like the modern-day Kim family in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being part of a movement that saw many royalist statues and much religious iconography including monumental crosses and stained glass windows <a href=\"https:\/\/college.holycross.edu\/projects\/kempe\/devotion\/iconoclasm.html\">destroyed<\/a>, Cromwell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cromwellmuseum.org\/cromwell\/did-oliver-cromwell-ban-christmas#:~:text=The%20outright%20ban%20came%20in,of%20a%20modern%20bank%20holiday\">banned Christmas and Easter<\/a> and waged a bloody campaign of repression<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalkerMarcus\/status\/1479960756854693890\"> described as \u201cgenocidal\u201d<\/a> by some in Ireland, with his regime proving so unpopular that after the monarchy was restored he was dug up and posthumously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-incredibly-disturbing-medieval-practice-of-gibbeting\">hung in chains<\/a> and decapitated, with his head displayed on a pike alongside those of other <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/regicide\">regicides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When you\u2019re defending criminals by crying in aid a genocidal regicide you really do have to stop and ask whether you\u2019re on the right side of this debate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OR4v0T5k4i\">https:\/\/t.co\/OR4v0T5k4i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marcus Walker (@WalkerMarcus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalkerMarcus\/status\/1479960756854693890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tory grandee and David Cameron\u2019s former right-hand man George Osborne has backed the BLM radicals who destroyed Edward Colston\u2019s statue in Bristol. \u201cBritish jury system again acquits itself brilliantly,\u201d the 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