'Cultural desecration!' Martin Daubney launches furious tirade after Winston Churchill statue defaced

Venting his anger following the incident, Martin told GB News viewers: "It's an act of targeted anti-British racism. It's cultural desecration, and it's no accident.

"This is about the third or fourth time it's happened. This cancer began during the Black Lives Matter protests, when this statue was vandalised with racist graffiti then, and it was boarded up inside a catacomb, sites that shamed the world. And then the next week, the Patriots came to defend it, and they were the ones who got the baton."

He added: "They were the ones who got the treatment from the old bill around this square, shamelessly taking the knee the same as Sir Keir Starmer at the time, the leader of the opposition.

"All of this emboldened the people out there watching, and they came and they came and they came."

Recalling how the statue then became a target for pro-Palestine protesters, Martin said: "And then we had October the 7th... there were protests around here every single week. I got involved in myself, I got egged, I got fluids thrown at me right here.

"And then Big Ben, when they put onto that tower 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free', I begged the police officers to go and take the projector to the other side of the green, and they were not remotely interested in doing their job. Two-tier policing in full visibility. Are we surprised?"

Taking aim at the treatment of the mainstream media and their "shame" of British culture, Martin raged: "Added on to that is this odd treachery of our mainstream media.

"The craven academia that teach our kids to be ashamed of our culture, this one-sided version of history where Britain is only complicit in wrongdoing and evil and it all precipitates itself in cretinous acts, like what happened here.

Looking at the statue following its clean, Martin spotted that the paint had not been fully removed: "On the ground here you can still smell the paint, it's been removed but if you walk around there is still paint there, they haven't done the job.

"And how can it be in London? We can't turn down any of these streets the wrong way without getting a ticket. You can't drop a fag end around here without getting nicked. You can't even go down this road and your in your car without a Ulez certificate, without getting nicked by the police in Sadiq Khan's London, yet you can randomly walk up to this and desecrate it."

Ending his enraged rant, Martin declared that the vandalisation was "no accident" and those responsible should be "banged up".

He said: "And this is no accident, it's targeted just like the Cenotaph down there was when it kicked off down there, and the police drew the batons on the white patriots. And time and time and time again, the pro-Palestine mob have climbed up these.

"They tried to set fire to the flag at the cenotaph, and the young lad who did that got a suspended sentence. This emboldens these psychopaths, these cultural vandals, people who hate our nation.

"And they come and they do things like this. This is no accident and it's no surprise, and it shames our nation. The evil walks amongst us, and they need banging up."

A 38-year-old man was arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage.

In an update, the Metropolitan Police said he has been further arrested on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act, and remains in custody.

In a statement, a Home Office spokesman said: "Sir Winston Churchill is a figure of great national pride. The vile vandals defacing this statue are a disgrace.

"The Metropolitan Police have taken swift action to arrest the perpetrator, and the statue of Sir Winston will be restored back to its original glory."

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