{"id":193001,"date":"2019-08-10T13:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193001"},"modified":"2019-08-14T05:52:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:52:30","slug":"multi-million-pound-holocaust-memorial-outside-parliament-is-set-to-be-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193001","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust memorial outside Parliament is set to be rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Complaints it would spoil the view just months after the government pledged a further \u00a325m to the project<\/h2>\n<h5>-&gt; The monument and education centre would be in Victoria Tower Gardens<br \/>\n-&gt; Plans have faced opposition from those who say it would spoil the view<br \/>\n-&gt; Opposition list reasons such as &#8216;atmosphere&#8217; and pollution&#8217; for its objection<\/h5>\n<div id=\"attachment_193003\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Proposed-Holocaust-memorial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193003\" class=\"wp-image-193003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Proposed-Holocaust-memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Proposed-Holocaust-memorial.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Proposed-Holocaust-memorial-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed memorial would have been next to parliament. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Terri Anne-Williams \u2013 Daily Mail Aug 8, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A multi-million pound Holocaust memorial outside Parliament is set to be rejected following complaints that it would spoil the view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It comes just months after the government pledged a further \u00a325 million to the project which was first announced in 2015 by then Prime Minister <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/david_cameron\/index.html\"><strong>David Cameron<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The proposals include a monument and education centre in Victoria Tower Gardens which sits next to the Palace of Westminster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But the plans have faced opposition from locals in the heritage area who say it would compromise the landscape of the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The &#8216;Save Victoria Gardens&#8217; group was set up to highlight why the memorial should not be built there, and list reasons such as the &#8216;atmosphere&#8217; on the park as well as pollution and security<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is while the Holocaust Educational Trust sent a letter to the Westminster Planning committee on Monday to pledge its support for the memorial, with chief executive Karen Pollock having said the memorial is &#8216;wholly appropriate&#8217; at a time of &#8216;rising antisemitism across Europe&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a letter released this week, Westminster City Council said that at that time &#8216;the application was heading towards an unfavourable recommendation.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The scheme is currently being jointly led by Ed Balls and Lord Pickles and has been backed by Theresa May, Sir John Major, Tony Blair and Mr Cameron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7340663\/Multi-million-pound-Holocaust-memorial-outside-Parliament-set-rejected-amid-complaints.html\">Continues\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed memorial faces rejection by locals. Not that they dispute the supposed history or think the Holocaust is a Zionist scam but because it would \u201cspoil the view\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193008,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193001\/revisions\/193008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}