King's tie features Greek flag after Elgin Marbles row
King's tie features Greek flag after Elgin Marbles row
Royal sources say the tie was a coincidence and not linked to Rishi Sunak's spat with the Greek PM.
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I am quite happy for him to go to Greece if he wants to stay with the Marbles so much.
2 16 ReplyThey're not in Greece though are they?
9 1 Replyofc they are not. It is ridiculous to want to hold onto them. The amount of people who want to keep them in the UK is very small.
EDIT: to correct a typo.
5 4 ReplyNo they're not in Greece that's the point.
Greece want them in Greece not in the UK.
5 1 ReplyTypo - OFC they are not. But they will get them under Starmer, he has said as much.
2 4 ReplyI'm totally confused by everything you say because none of it seems to have any connection with the previous comment.
The statues are not in Greece They're in the UK, that's the problem.
What are you saying? Because I literally can't work it out.
2 0 ReplyThey are heading to Greece. They will be there within the next 10 years. If Starmer doesn't just hand them over, then the Greeks will use their veto to stop the UK joining the EU. Since Starmer wants good relations with the EU without actually committing to join, then the Elgin Marbles will be a good start point, as well as doing the right thing.
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It's nothing to do with the British government where they're displayed. It's entirely in the remit of the British museum.
1 0 ReplyYes but, but also no
The British Museum is a non-departmental public body (NDPB), operating at arm's length from government, but accountable to parliament.
2 0 ReplyGive over you clown. Who pays the wages and assigns staffing at the museum.
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Anti-royal pro-colonial is a angle we don't often see.
5 1 ReplyGiving things back is not pro-colonial. Did we even have any claim on Greece as a colony?
2 1 ReplyThere was more than one empire when the British empire was at its height. Greece was under the control of the Ottoman empire. The purchase of the marbles was an agreement with them rather than the Greeks themselves.
2 0 ReplyWhat has that got to do with the price of fish?
1 0 ReplyI was answering your question about whether Britain had claimed Greece as a colony. Colonialism isn't just about the British empire.
2 0 ReplyAnd again - price of fish. The topic at hand has nothing to do with colonialism.
1 0 ReplyDid we even have any claim on Greece as a colony?
1 0 ReplyAnti-royal pro-colonial is a angle we don’t often see
Look at the comment above and stick to the context
Britain had claimed Greece as a colony
andthenthreemore see anyone can do that
1 0 ReplyExcept I took your whole question to give you context to my answer, rather than taking an extra from a sentence which flipped the meaning.
You can't complain about my comment having nothing to do with the price of fish when I was just giving you an answer to your question.
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