Rose-Coloured Spectacle

We are all aware, because the howler monkeys gibber and squeal it from the treetops whenever a slave-trader's statue is molested, that our patriotic culture warriors simply despise censorship of British history and simply adore free speech. This no doubt explains the actions of a group of councillors from the party of the noted historian Mr Churchill, who have intervened to censor British history and restrict free speech by ordering the removal of a commemorative installation from a Southend park. The installation features flower-beds planted with a variety of rose cultivated about the time of North Korea's birth, and a plaque with some unpleasant details about Britain's independent US-owned peacekeeping nuclear deterrent, which was first tested on Indigenous land in Australia and which the mad mullahs of the modern Conservative Party continue to expand and proliferate. Naturally the culture warriors do not object that the plaque says anything untrue: instead, one of them submitted the eminently conclusive critique that he didn't like it, on the grounds that it portrayed nuclear weapons as harmful even when British. Even more naturally, the fact that the installation is not funded by the council or on council-managed land merely stokes the blue British flames of entitlement's trumpeting fart-fire.