A colossus for the Thames

My thanks to The Count for drawing my attention to this. The Telegraph reports that the mayor of Dresden is in Britain to open an exhibition on the bombing of London, her city and Coventry. It seems Dresden and Coventry are now twinned - how sweet. While here, Frau Helma Orosz intends to lobby against the proposed memorial to the Bomber Command aircrew who died during World War II.

My first reaction is: Right after you demolish this vaunting memorial to the U-boat crewmen killed during the war, you presumptuous bitch.

But hey, why not? Starting in 1945 with Air Chief Marshal Portal and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the architects of the strategic bomber offensive, the British establishment has behaved with consummate shabbiness towards the young men who were the only ones to take the fight to the Nazis before D-Day.

Enough of monuments to dead white males! Better, surely, to spend the money on a colossus to match New York's Statue of Liberty, perhaps bestriding the Thames, representative of modern, multi-cultural Britain.

My suggestion? A mouse-coloured man with his trousers around his ankles, bending over to peer past his flabby buttocks and shrivelled testicles, with the bold motto: Fuck me - I like it.