Trafalgar Square 4th Plinth shortlist
 

So the shortlist for what to put on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square has been announced. Which one gets your vote?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11017724

Good God not much to chose from - how about putting QE 2 up there for a year? I do love those Battenberg cakes though so voting for that one.

The modified Field Marshal's statue sort of carries on from the theme of the current Ship in a Bottle - so maybe that's an argument for a change. I like the ATM organ, but not there - better outside the Bank of England or the Treasury maybe. Can't see the point of a gigantic French cockerel (careful now!) or the Battenberg, and the child on the rocking horse is so feebly made. Either the Field Marshal or the Great Britain landscape/cloudscape. But, then, I am a bit literally-minded.

None of them seem really worthy but maybe when I see the models in person it will be easier to pick my favorite.

Big Blue Chicken.

I'm with big blue chicken. If only to baffle the Frogs.

But it will be that indian thing.

I like the look of the pipe organ butif it's not a Barclay's Bank ATM I won't be playing it. Guess I'll go with the chicken! Can't wait to see the ship in the bottle. I liked the statue that was there this spring

I don't "get" any of them, and don't really like any of them either. But I won't be looking at it every day (or ever probably) so I don't mind which they choose. I can't see any of them standing the test of time tbh.

>>I can't see any of them standing the test of time tbh.<<

They only get a short time anyway. I think the big blue chicken might be taken as cocking (ha!) a snook at Nelson. Trafalgar Square, you see. We can't have the French cocking snooks (or anything else for that matter - adn what is a snook anyway?)

Ah, let them cock their snooks!

We won the wars. Against the snook-cockers.

Nuff said.

Big blue chicken it is.

Yuck X 6

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