A Tangled Web

A DWARF IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE



London’s Trafalgar Square, which celebrates the victory of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, led by Britain’s greatest naval hero, Admiral Lord Nelson, is soon to have a new sculpture. It was Nelson’s triumph over the French at sea which foiled Napoleon’s plans to invade Britain. In the centre of the square is a 200-foot high column topped by a statue of Lord Nelson. The great British hero surveys the London landscape. Three other plinths in each corner of the square, celebrate three other British military heroes. There has been controversy for 160 years over who should occupy the fourth plinth. Red Ken Livingstone, the London Mayor, held a contest for a statue for the fourth plinth, without any military or heroic reference. Red Ken has now made his choice: The fourth plinth in this square for heroes is to be occupied by a 15-foot high sculpture of a naked, armless, truncated legged, pregnant dwarf. In other words, the Square will soon celebrate everything Britain historically is not: weak, vulnerable, exultantly victimized and ugly.



This is intended to be an affront to British history and to deface a square dedicated to men who made the British Empire great. Even five years ago, Livingstone and his gang may have had the will, but not the nerve, to place this hideous statue in Trafalgar Square. No longer. They know that the hard left is in the ascendant in the UK. Camouflaged in the colours of New Labour, they have a clear objective; the destruction of everything that makes Britain great. They will tear down our past glories and erect their own self-loathing. That is why we will have a dwarf in Trafalgar Square, worshipped by the Lilliputians of the left.