Excellent detailed account here of how @MuseumoftheHome caved to government pressure to go against their own consultation. Utterly ludicrous.

Can& #39;t think who might& #39;ve got the emails and shared them around...

I& #39;ll do a short thread of key bits... https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/museum-of-the-home-robert-geffrye-statue_uk_5f480bb2c5b6cf66b2b4ed4c">https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mus...

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Good detailed write up of the whole sorry fiasco in the @HuffPost above. More will come next month when board minutes and consultation results released.

1 @OliverDowden (DCMS minister) personally wrote to the museum advising them not to take the statue down.The tone was threatening. "As a government-funded organisation, I expect you to be mindful of the above approach [reinterpreting not taking down - exactly what they& #39;re doing]"

2 In an initial public statement, the museum were going to say that they were advised by @OliverDowden not to take it down. But a DCMS staffer told them to just refer vaguely to "relevant government agencies" instead