The objected-to sculpture is a 55-metre sliver of steel poked into a hilltop. It supposedly expresses the Viscount's idea of the Queen's "anchoring of the Commonwealth around shared values of tolerance, respect and understanding." It's the Viscount's land, and the project is privately funded.
What are "the Wannies"?
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Well the wannies can always offer to purchase the land and gift it to the crown.
Looks like, he should just call it a windmill... There are plenty of them there already
What makes people think they have the right to dictate what a person does with or on their private property?
One Man's Sliver of Steel is another man's Huge Prick.
What's so funny about tolerance, respect, and understanding?
The song. we need right now.
What if he letters TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN!!! along the length of the toothpick?
Maybe STOP CLIMATE CHANGE!!! on the other side for good measure?
Is it me, or does this guy sound like he's baby talking?
So he wants to put up a 21st century version of a folly? Sounds terribly British to me.
What's wrong with honoring Queen? I love Freddie Mercury!
Oh, wait...
It looks like the link is broken. Does someone have the correct link to the article in question?
180 feet long...and 'poked' into a hillside...
Compensating for something?
: )
He shoulda just called it a George Floyd memorial, and they'd all applaud it.
The Keep the Wannies Wild facebook page says ...
Our Purpose:
Keep the Wannies Wild seeks to INFORM people about and OBJECT to the erection of Ascendant, a 180-foot high steel sculpture at Cold Law, known locally as Tit Hill, next to the C195 road crossing the Wannies, a beautiful, wild and remote area of Northumberland upland between the villages of Kirkwhelpington and Ridsdale.
I think naming anything "Tit Hill" is more obnoxious than the sculpture. I'm not crazy about the name Kirkwhelpington either ... although when translated from what ever language they speak there it may be OK.
The protesters know that a 180 foot tall sundial isn't that much of an imposition, compared to other huge sculptures such as the 597 foot tall Indian Statue of Unity or any of the giant Buddhas in China, Myanmar and Japan. Their main issue seems to be that "their" isolated and little visited rural area might become more popular and crowded. Well, they may have to live the famous words of Yogi Berra, “That place, it’s so crowded nobody goes there anymore.”
I can barely understand these Scots.
How did he become a viscount? Like the old song says:
Lloyd George knew my father,
Father knew Lloyd George,
Lloyd George knew my father,
Father knew Lloyd George
In this case, it was his grandfather. David Lloyd George handed out titles right and left to campaign contributors.
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