Jonathan EmmesediI hope this statue does not reappear in Grosvenor Square. I say this not merely because I detested the man and his politics, but also because the erection of the statue represented British lickspittle subservience to US conservatism. Reagan had no particular connection with the UK, so no rationale exists for him being glorified in London. Both his and Eisenhower's statue should be offered to the new US embassy.
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt statue, on the other hand, should remain. Britons should be perpetually grateful to him, for without the aid to the UK he pushed through we would have been conquered by Nazi Germany. Of course this aid was not an act of pure altruism, but however hard a bargain FDR drove and however much his policy served US interests, his help at a time of peril saved the UK and the wider world from Nazi barbarism.
President Reagan statue : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London
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President Reagan statue
Don't know about you but we find this type of inscription very tedious, and suspect a committee, probably more than one, has had a hand in it. Some of the references and quotes seem excessive: Gorbachev, the Pope, Lech Walensa, Nikita Khrushchev, Thatcher, Kennedy and the Queen. Obviously Reagan is a major node on 'six degrees of Kevin Bacon'; we don't need all this name-dropping.
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