I stand corrected. If they placed that directly behind and above the Bull I'd shop a lot more.

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It was an amazing sight...

King Kong is a weird thing in Birmingham. Even though it was only a shit fibreglass model of a big monkey, a whole collective folk memory seems to have grown up around how brilliant it was and every now and again there is some eejit that talks about getting Kong back and erecting him in the middle of bloody New Street.

The Kong model is apparently languishing in the corner of a car park just outside Edinburgh. One of the putative mayoral candidates, an idiot retired policeman called Ray Egan (see below), who for a hobby dresses up as "John Bull" and makes a nuisance of himself protesting in jingoistic fashion about things like Cadbury's being bought out by Kraft, has made the return of the fibreglass King Kong a key pledge of his campaign.

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Brum in all it's brutalist glory.
1974. Drab Britannia.
Harold Wislon. Ted Heath. Thatcher going for the grocer's throat.

Of course King Kong was feckin' popular!

Guys I think I'm in love.

Good to know a flange like that was responsible for the administration of law and order in what was and is one of Britain's most culturally diverse cities.

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With Ray Egan? Good luck.

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Standing Firm as we speak

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Reminds me somewhat of this guy:

Lieutenant Commander William George Boaks DSC (25 May 1904 – 4 April 1986) was a British Royal Navy officer who became an eccentric political campaigner for road safety. He died at the age of 81 as a result of a road traffic accident. His record of five votes, the fewest ever recorded for a candidate in a British by-election, set in 1982 and held jointly since 1988, still stands as of 2010.

Since he campaigned for road safety and died in a road traffic accident, I dare say Mr Boaks could be said to have proved his point somewhat.

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Just skimmed his wiki page. By no means the maddest part, but found it quite warming:

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cf. Superlambanana in Liverpool. I met various people who felt passionately about it. One day it vanished and they were bereft. Tried telling them it had just been moved and it was still extant, as it were, but no bugger wanted to hear this. I think it denied them their nostalgia. It had to be gone to matter.

More news from Brum on the idiot in fancy dress:

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2012/03/22/mayoral-hopeful-john-bull-in-red-light-zone-pledge-97319-30596573/

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Red light district and Cannabis Cafe - He seems more like Jan Stier than John Bull.

I got the local election bumph pushed through the door yesterday. I don't know if I can be arsed. I'll go along for the vote but I might just spoil the referendum paper.

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Birmingham will have an elected mayor because that's what the government wants. With a Labour-controlled council almost certain from May they will be pushing every opportunity to maintain a foothold on power. And with the city's mainstream politicians a pretty uninspiring lot, at the moment Carl Chinn (local historian & broadcaster) would walk it.