Hundreds of veterans from campaigns as diverse as the Hammersmith Palais punch-up of 1957 to last summer’s scuffle outside the Babylon Club, Aiya Napa, watched as footballing legend Steven Gerrard pulled aside the cloth to reveal the new sculpture.
Posted: Nov 13th, 2009
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Minister for work and pensions Yvette Cooper and the Rt Hon Ben Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, have announced a joint job-creation scheme in which thousands of British job seekers will be tasked with colouring in the nation’s statues.
The initiative is said to have been the brainchild of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who hit upon the idea after giving Michelle Obama and her children a tour of London’s great and good. Although the First Lady was suitably impressed with Britain’s marble and bronze heritage, one of her daughters was heard to remark that London’s most iconic landmarks ‘were okay, for a bunch of boring old statues.’ Brown’s jaw is said to have tightened with indignation and that very evening a way of brightening up Britain was conceived in Downing Street.
Posted: Jul 17th, 2009
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The sculptures are simply entitled ‘Wahey!’
Posted: May 22nd, 2007
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