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On Monday, the city council announced that they planned to spend £65,000 to remount the statue on a much higher plinth to stop this "depressing vandalism", but a massive outpouring of hilarious images and cone-based puns on Twitter and Facebook turned it into such an issue that it actually got a mini debate segment on STV's Scotland Tonight show, and the council have been forced into an embarrassing climbdown. Here's a wee selection of some of the pics;





Attack of the Cones;




And pretty soon, images of other landmarks showing "solidarity" with the Wellington Cone appeared;







I won't list the puns here, some are truly truly cringe-inducing, but if you fancy a good laugh look up #conegate on Twitter ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6241435.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6241435.page GMT Re:The Glasgow Spring: Conegate
I know Donald Dewar had to be put on a larger plinth because dick heads broke the glasses off the statue, I take it damage wasn't an issue as these things are expensive to repair?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6241533.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6241533.page GMT The Glasgow Spring: Conegate http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6241955.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6241955.page GMT Re:The Glasgow Spring: Conegate
 Medium of Death wrote:
What's the reasoning behind the new plinth? If they were doing it to match the ones in George Square (which is 30 seconds away) I could understand. I'm sure somebody would have still been able to get the cone up. If the only reason is that somebody in the council doesn't like it that's pretty stupid, it's a tradition and it hasn't spread to any of our other monuments.

I know Donald Dewar had to be put on a larger plinth because dick heads broke the glasses off the statue, I take it damage wasn't an issue as these things are expensive to repair?


There is damage to this statue, but it's due to it not being repaired for years and years, it needs a resurfacing, and the original work was planned to have a sheathed sword that was never added so they wanted to put that on it. They used that as an excuse to try and sneak in the new plinth by(erroneously) conflating the corrosion on the statue with the cone tradition - the plinth's sole stated purpose was to make it harder to put the cone up there.

Having now watched the STV discussion on the matter on catchup; ugh, where on earth did they find that colossal bell-end to argue against the cone? I mean I know people usually become hyper-sensitive and OTT around Remembrance day, but trying to claim putting a cone on a statue of a general from the bloody Napoleonic War is somehow "disrespectful" to soldiers...?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6242302.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6242302.page GMT The Glasgow Spring: Conegate He's is literally the only person I've hear attack it apart from the person who set up the petition ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6242339.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562679/6242339.page GMT