Following on the brutal and public killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnisota, recent protests in,both, America and Britain has bought with it a new global awakening and recognition in regards to Britain's colonial past. This new awakening has prompted angry protestors to turn their attention to symbols of colonialism such as statues and plaques, resulting, thus far, in statues commemorating Christopher Columbus to be disposed of in America and Edward Colston in Bristol, England.

Cymru, of course, is also a colony of Britain and we, also, have numerous symbols of our colonialism in the form of street names, plaques and statues, put in place or erected to commemorate and to glorify our colonializers so, in this age of awakening when the Cymry are displaying a new confidence in our nationhood by, once more, marching on the road to our Independence, shouldn't we also be turning our attention to the removal of these every day reminders of our colonialism?

For the above reasons, we, the Cymry, are now campaigning for the removal of symbols of  British colonialism in Cymru and begin with a call for the instant removal of the Edward VIII statue which has been erected in the grounds of the Old Collge at Aberystwyth.

Edward VIII, who abdicated the English throne, then to assume the title of the Duke of Windsor, was a renowned racist, Nazi sympathiser and collaborator and a womanizer who, following his abdication, became the corrupt Governor of the Bahamas. He is certainly not a role model for students or any other person to look up to, therefore, the signatures on this petition endorses the call for the immediate removal of his statue from the campus on the grounds that he is a disparaging symbol of British colonialism in Cymru.