A statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher is finally set to be lowered into place in her home town despite past threats of “egg throwing”.
The £300,000 statue, which was initially meant for Parliament Square in Westminster, was unanimously approved by a planning committee in February 2019.
Despite the fact that the ceremony has been postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the monument will be unveiled on Sunday in Baroness Thatcher’s hometown of Grantham, Lincolnshire.
The monument was moved to the location, according to reports initially submitted to South Kesteven District Council, because of worries of a “motivated far-left movement… who may be committed to public activism.”
However, after the council authorised a large-scale £100,000 unveiling ceremony in 2020, a Facebook group suggesting a “egg-throwing contest” during the event drew over 13,000 participants.
Around 2,400 people expressed interest in attending the event, which included “egg throwing… and perhaps graffiti art.”
The statue, standing at just over 20ft high, will be situated in between two existing statues of Sir Isaac Newton and Frederick Tollemache in the town’s Civic Quarter.
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