To add insult to injury the bill for the restoration of the Churchill statue in Parliament Square is over a whopping £7,000. So much owed by so many…
The 12-foot Churchill was graffitied three separate times in 2020 and was targeted again in February this year when he was sprayed with red paint and slogans including “Zionist war criminal,” “Stop the Genocide,” “Free Palestine,” and “Globalise the Intifada.” Back in 2020 an Extinction Rebellion activist was fined £1,500 for daubing the statue…
These were the projected costs of restoring the statue this time:
- Immediate call-out cost to Restoration contractor: approximately £700 (initial cleaning cost built-in)
- Hire of Mobile Elevating Work Platform – £1,500.
- To follow – estimate Repatination of the statue, approximately £2,000
- Hire of Mobile Elevating Work Platform – £1,500/day
- Maintenance contractor additional costs
The total emergency clean cost out of the GLA maintenance/restoration budget was £7,804.80. The police barrier hire was £734.40. A grand total of £8,539.20…
