The crisis is an affront to the British values we hold dear

The idea of liberty for all is the value that has been at the heart of British society since King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215. It was what drove Britain to be the first major country to abolish slavery, to be one of the first to extend civil liberties to all and not just to the wealthy, and to be one of the first to give women the right to vote.^[1] This fundamental British belief in liberty stems from the idea that all are equal and all deserve the right and the platform to voice their opinions, regardless of what it is, because, without this guarantee of liberty, a country would easily fall to tyranny. The statues crises happening right now is not new; it is simply the latest case of a fanatic obsession with who was on the right side of history and who was on the wrong. It was the obsession of the Taliban when they destroyed Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, the obsession of French revolutionaries who destroyed the monuments and portraits of the French nobility, and the obsession of the Soviets who had their predecessors' images and history erased. Just like before, the current uprising represents an uprising against the nuances of history, and the fact that people aren't always the violent oppressors the left paints them out to be. The left wants to silence alternate versions of history and any celebration of those who they don't like because they refuse to accept the fact that people can be multi-faceted and both good and bad at the same time.^[2] This is an uprising against our most fundamental British values, and the liberty of people to be remembered differently and to be discussed differently.

[P1] English liberty is a fundamental value that applies to everyone in British society and means that their voice and their ability to defend and celebrate someone's legacy is legitimate. [P2] The religion of wokeness is mob-like and taking away everyone's rights to celebrate and like who they want to.