New VE -Day Act to stop Churchill Statue Sacrilege

The government will make it a crime to climb at the Winston Churchill statue on the parliamentary site, is announced today.

The criminals were able to inaugurate up to three months in prison and a fine of £ 1,000 for the desue of the monument for the British leader of the war.

The Churchill statue is not officially classified as one of the British war monuments, but the Interior Minister Yvette Cooper plans to add them to the list of statues and monuments that will soon become a criminal offense.

These include the Cenotaph in Whitehall, the Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park and many other famous structures in Great Britain, which are reminiscent of the service of the armed forces in the first and second world wars.

The new law is included in the flagship and police law, which is currently progressing across the parliament.

Cooper announced Churchill's supplement to the list of protected memorials and said: “When the country comes together to celebrate the VE Day, it is only right that we make sure that the statue of Winston Churchill, together with the other Holy War memorial, is treated with the respect it deserves.”

Churchill is said to have personally selected the position where he wanted his statue to approved plans for the renovation of the parliamentary site in the 1950s.

The 12-foot statue of the former Prime Minister in Bronze, in November 1973 on the Westminster Square was unveiled by his widow Clementine eight years after the death of her husband.

Queen Elizabeth II and the queen mother were present at the ceremony.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer, who supports the new protection, said: “Sir Winston Churchill is at the summit of our country's greatest heroes and was an inspiration for every prime minister who followed him.

“The legitimate anger that is provoked when people use their statue as a platform for their protests speaks for the deep and permanent love that all decent British have for Sir Winston.

“It is the least that we and the rest of the largest generation make these actions criminal.”

In recent years, the statue has become a regular goal for demonstrators.

In 2014, a man was arrested after he had spent 48 hours as part of the Occupy Democracy Protests in Westminster with the social protests of the Occupy, but was then acquitted all the charges.

The statue was sprayed famous with red color and decorated with a green lawn mohican in May in 2000, for which the perpetrator received a 30-day prison sentence.

The statue was also impressed with graffiti during the extinction rebellion demonstrations in 2020, for which an 18-year-old demonstrator received a fine of 200 GBP and was instructed to pay compensation of £ 1,200.

During the Black Lives Matt protests at the beginning of the year, the statue was sprayed again with graffiti and finally pulled by police officers to protect them from demonstrators.

Finally, Trans -Rights who occupied the Churchill statue and swiveled posters from their base and the slogans on other statues on other statues on other statues on other statues at the end of April.