Margaret Thatcher statue proposal to honor the Iron Lady's memory again hits a wall

Bureaucrats always find a snag to hit when it comes to honoring conservative icons.

A second attempt at putting up a statue of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher outside parliament was rejected just six months after the original plan was shot down, The Sun reports.

A second attempt to erect a statue of #Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret #Thatcher outside parliament, just six months after a first proposal was thrown out over vandalism fears, has failed after councillors rejected a revised plan. pic.twitter.com/xmlMQ90maT

— Politicoscope (@Politicoscope) January 24, 2018

“We would welcome future proposals for a more appropriate statue of Baroness Thatcher, depicting her as prime minister, rather than the current design,” Westminster planning committee chairman Richard Beddoe said.

Beddoe alluded to the revised design’s depiction of Thatcher in the robes of the House of Lords. Thatcher was made a baroness by Queen Elizabeth in 1992.

Typically, statutes aren’t erected outside Parliament for at least a decade after the public figure’s death. Thatcher died in 2013 after suffering a stroke. But Beddoe denied that time was a factor.

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - This 1980 file photo shows British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London. Thatcher died of a stroke Monday morning, April 8, 2013. She was 87. (AP Photo/Gerald Penny, File) — Margaret Thatcher in 1980. (AP Photo/Gerald Penny, File).

“The lack of family support and the committee’s concerns around the design of the proposed statue were the key determining factors in turning down this application,” he maintained.

Beddoe continued:

“As our country’s first female Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher is a hugely significant figure in British history and in principle the council is in favour of a statue commemorating her in Parliament Square, but it must be the right statue, with an appropriate design and the support of her family.”

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FILE - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, and Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, share a laugh during a break from a session at the Ottawa Summit in this file photo dated July 21, 1981, at Government House in Ottawa, Canada. Personal papers from 1981 released Saturday March 17, 2012, by the Thatcher archive at Cambridge University in England, reveal that Thatcher was fascinated by U.S. President Reagan, and that she snatched and kept a page of his doodles from this G7 summit in Ottawa. Reagan left the piece of paper adorned with his sketches, sitting on a table at the Ottawa meeting when Margaret Thatcher picked it up and kept it, it is revealed in her papers released Saturday. (AP Photo/File) — Thatcher with US President Ronald Reagan. (AP Photo/File).

There were also concerns that the 10-ft tall bronze statue of Britain’s renowned conservative Prime Minister would be vandalized.

In 2002, a sculpture of Thatcher in London’s Guildhall Art Gallery was decapitated by a man with a metal pole.

#OTD July 3rd 2002: #Thatcher statue decapitated by Paul Kelleher. pic.twitter.com/Cw2AF7jPno

— Gerry Hassan (@GerryHassan) July 4, 2016

The statue on Parliament Square, designed by sculptor Douglas Jennings, would appear beside representations of Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela, and be built on a climb-proof plinth to deter vandalism.

The Public Memorials Appeal commissioned the work after Thatcher’s death.

Britain’s longest-serving prime minister during the 20th Century is widely respected among conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic, but has been disparaged by liberals.

FILE - In this Monday June 29, 2009 file photo, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves to members of the media following her return home from hospital suffering from a broken arm, in central London. Britain is abuzz with U.S. presidential candidate Jeb Bush's suggestion that Margaret Thatcher should grace the new $10 bill. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) — Thatcher in 2009, four years before her death. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File).

Thatcher’s death was celebrated by many on the left. Former British Green Party leader Caroline Lucas said at the conservative’s passing that deceased prime minister “did little for women either inside or outside the House of Commons.”

Some union activists greeted Thatcher’s death with “good riddance.” Many street parties broke out around Britain, with participants reveling in the conservative’s passing. At one event, Thatcher’s detractors held a fake funeral, where they burned her in effigy.

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Effigy of Margaret Thatcher set alight at Free Derry Corner in front of crowd which now stands at 300. pic.twitter.com/tZIgn9LilQ

— Donna Deeney (@Donna_Deeney) April 17, 2013

Leave it to the left to showcase the worst of humanity.

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