Elsie Inglis statue protest

Edinburgh Evening News

As councillors approved controversial plans to erect a statue to Dr Elsie Inglis on the Royal Mile, protesters gathered outside Edinburgh City Chambers to make their feelings clear.

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00:00With a decision to be made today on the controversial new Elsie Ingle statue at the Royal Mile,

00:07protesters from the Elsie on the Mile campaign group gathered outside the city chambers ahead of the decision,

00:14angry in particular at the design of the statue.

00:17If this goes ahead with the exclusion of most women's voices,

00:21this is not just what Edinburgh is saying about equality in Elsie,

00:24this is what Scotland is saying to the world about how we view equality

00:29and the story and history of women.

00:31As protesters of all ages gathered outside, Natasha explained more about why they were there.

00:37Well I'm here today because the public voice has been silenced.

00:42When the controversial commissioning process happened in the open competition for this statue,

00:48the public discourse was completely shut down.

00:51The charity closed their Facebook page, their Twitter and their website

00:56and since then there's been no public dialogue.

00:59Also it's really important that all of the stakeholders within this large cultural public art are consulted

01:07and yet we've identified that only one out of about 13 areas of stakeholders.

01:12We've also identified 11 pages of policy, planning policy that hasn't been followed.

01:19Councilors at the Development and Management Subcommittee voted 7-2 in favour of the statue during a meeting on Wednesday morning.

01:29The Edinburgh Councilors also ruled out a council official's recommendation to have a lower plinth than in the original drawings.

01:37So our students.

01:41We've been 28 years old.

01:48We've been a writer for the Additionally.

01:50We've been trying to vote for a few people in the anime at the Atola for today.

01:56I've done a few years of the project, which was the constitution of the Enterprise.

01:57The two nations have printed out positions.

01:59We've done that, too.

02:00We've done a few years of the cooperation.

02:02We've done that.

02:03We've done a few years of the experience.

02:04We've done that on the other hand.

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