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![[Linked Image]](http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6379998.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/23-storey-Liver-Bird.jpg) This giant 23-storey liver bird could soon provide Liverpool with an attraction to rival New York’s Statue of Liberty - if an artist gets his way. Architect David Backhouse first thought of the 100-metre tall building 30 years ago, and believes it could cost up to £250 million. Source
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God help us if that's the best he can do, it looks like a child has been playing with kitchen foil.
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So long as the taxpayer or the public don't pay for it, it looked to me as two whales can I say humping, that's at first sight of the picture.
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I was going to post about this last night but I'm so undecided about it being good or bad.
It is HUGE, it is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty or Nelson's Column, it will be really good for tourism - possibly. It is not as tall as the Radio City Tower (or St John's Beacon as I still prefer to call it).
It is funded through one or both of the Liverpool BIDs which gets it money through a levy on business rates on all businesses inside their zone. Some businesses are going to benefit a lot more from this than others.
How many people have bothered to go and see The Angel of the North?
How many people can name any of the top ten highest statues in the World (or even more than three out of the top 50?).
What else could £250m be spent on ... Transport improvements? restoring many of the heritage sites that are sadly deteriorating?
I think the thing that gripes me most is the BID going way overboard and possibly wandering outside of what I see the BID should be involved in.
Yes I do like the idea but I am concerned about the cost and whether it could be better spent.
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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No chance!
Scrap the idea now.
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Loud and proud, I think it's Liverpool all over.......completely o.t.t.
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If it blocks the view of the new Museum of Liverpool it's a good thing lol
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Ugly! Looks like a seagull landing on a space ship.
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Got to be better than the monstrosity of a clown we have in New Brighton.
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It look like it's got wrapping paper on it
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What might be more appropriate would be a Ford car jacked on bricks with no wheels
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Or four wheels with clamps on and no car
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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Liverpool already has a world class waterfront - I don't think it needs this ingenious but over-gimmicky offering, clever though the principles behind it might be - self-sufficiency in energy etc.
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Oh come on.......its so very fitting, bold, blingy, fun etc
I commission it
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by GaryFromWirral - 28th Dec 2023 8:49pm
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by GaryFromWirral - 28th Dec 2023 8:49pm
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