Object Number: TD7189

Collection: Social History

Object Name: placard

Description: Placard. 'I'M JUST HERE TO TEST MY EYESIGHT' (a comment on the Prime Minister's Chief Advisor Dominic Cummings' trip to Barnard Castle whilst he should have been in isolation with Covid 19, according to UK government rules). Other side: 'BORIS IS A RACIST C@*!' (Refers to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.) Collected on the morning of 8th June 2020, the day after the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down during Black Lives Matter protests in Bristol City centre. It was left at the base of the statue plinth.