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Cake day: September 4th, 2023

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  • So, a modicum of looking into the background of this renders the following:

    • These statues were removed from Greece by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s, while Greece was under Ottoman occupation
    • The legality and legitimacy of these removals is, at the very least, questionable
    • No watertight evidence exists to corroborate the claim of Lord Elgin that he had official permission
    • Greece has been repeatedly requesting a return of these statues since 1835
    • In 2021 UNESCO concluded that the UK government had an obligation to return these statues
    • Negotiations between Greece and the UK are ongoing

    Sorry, the only person who has squandered anything here is Rishi Sunak.