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Oxford University students vote to remove the Queen

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Anniebach Tue 08-Jun-21 18:53:04

They don’t support the Commonwealth

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MawBe Tue 08-Jun-21 18:48:55

Am I allowed to say what a load of spherical body parts?

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Elegran Tue 08-Jun-21 18:47:03

The Oxford debating society has a history of voting for controversial proposals. I suppose they feel they have to live up to their reputation as freethinking iconoclasts. (I assume it was them, or was it the entire student body?)

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Namsnanny Tue 08-Jun-21 18:39:44

The dont know nor care.
Its their truth and for them that's all that matters.
I suppose as it's their space they can vote to do with it as they please.

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Chestnut Tue 08-Jun-21 18:29:38
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Quote: Oxford students have voted to take down a portrait of the Queen from their common room because she 'represents recent colonial history' and would make some people feel unwelcome.
Members of the Middle Common Room at Magdalen College - which is made up of graduates - passed the measure by a substantial majority, with one student commenting that 'patriotism and colonialism are not really separable'.

Is this the woke future of our country, to delete our cultural heritage and re-write our history? Do these people even know how tirelessly The Queen has worked for the Commonwealth for the last 70 years?

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