This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Remove all statues of slave-traders in the UK.
The statues of slave traders should be removed. They may be kept in museums for historical reference but should not be in public areas of cities/towns. To remember the history, instead of these statues, there should be education of Britain's history with the slave trade in the school curriculum.
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Slave-traders are not people that should be glorified or celebrated. Having statues of them all over the country is abhorrent and they must be removed as all the wealth they may have accumulated would have been mostly due to the slave trade.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Decisions about individual historical monuments, statues, plaques and street names are a matter for the local authority in which they are located and private landowners, not the UK Government or Parliament.
If you want to raise concerns about a particular historical monument or statue you should contact your local authority about this.
The Local Government Association has published an advice note to help councils work to ensure all sections of the community feel heard by decision-makers and each other: https://www.local.gov.uk/topics/community-safety/statues
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Encourage and support the removal of memorials that glorify the slave trade: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325449
Create an advisory board to review public statues and decide on their removal: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325673
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.