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[–] rainynight65@feddit.de 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So, a modicum of looking into the background of this renders the following:

These statues were removed from Greece by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s, while Greece was under Ottoman occupation
The legality and legitimacy of these removals is, at the very least, questionable
No watertight evidence exists to corroborate the claim of Lord Elgin that he had official permission
Greece has been repeatedly requesting a return of these statues since 1835
In 2021 UNESCO concluded that the UK government had an obligation to return these statues
Negotiations between Greece and the UK are ongoing

Sorry, the only person who has squandered anything here is Rishi Sunak.