'Europe Day' – Malpurgo's Monstrous Misrepresentation!
What the heck?
Some Guardian scribbler named Michael Malpurgo…
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….has invoked his dead uncles, in a strident and ill-informed piece that was presumably meant to herald horrid ‘Europe Day.’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/07/michael-morpurgo-my-family-fought-for-peace-not-for-brexit
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Malpurgo’s denunciation of the nation that took in his Belgian family is astounding – having been born and brought up in Britain, it seems he still has no appreciation of the quintessential British value, the readiness to stand up and fight for what’s right.
Get this contemptuous insult.
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I thought British people valued peace above all else…
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Thank God that’s not so.
Were Malpurgo correct, it would not have been just Belgium that got occupied by Germany!
True Brits have never shown any interest in the shabby idea of ‘peace at any price,’ not when they had a clear look at the facts.
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Flirtation with appeasement was a 1930s flash in the pan, a folly soon exposed, just as we hope it will be in the 21st century…
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….though admittedly corrosion of the national character is much worse now than then…
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…or was it?
Are the dregs of society in the photo below truly a reflection of the realm’s younger generation?
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But Malpurgo…?
He seems to have no idea of how and why the Fourth Reich came into being.
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Here he witters about Brexit.
…few if any were talking about why the EU was there, how it came to be…our continent has been almost constantly at war over the centuries…then, out of the rubble…France and Germany decided that the only way to ensure peace was through trade…six nations gathered together to create this trading bloc.
TRADING BLOC?
That trading bloc was a deliberate first step in a conscious, cold conspiracy laid out brazenly by one of the Continent’s most evil men…
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“Europe’s nations should be guided towards the super-state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation. |
https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/brussels-nazi-antecedents-exposed-but-ukip-grovels-again/
…Jean Monnet, whose detestation of democracy we know, from his very own words.
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BTW, has Malpurgo never heard of NATO?
THAT was the only way to ensure peace, a readiness to do battle together against communism.
A trading bloc was no substitute for NATO, nor was it ever meant to be – it was from the get-go a grand design for a supranational government…
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But Malpurgo blunders along.
Europe’s peoples could see the sense of this.
EUROPE’S PEOPLES were never given a vote.
How many referenda were held back then?
Germany has never held a referendum. When the French and Dutch got a vote, they called for a halt, but their Europhiliac political establishments made sure that never again would they get to vote…
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….on the so-called ‘European Project.’
Yet while Malpurgo vaguely recognises this historical reality….
… it became bureaucratic, less democratic, put ever more stars on its flag, and created a new currency….
He then twists the Brexit democratic rebellion to harmonise his stance with the ranting rot about ‘xenophobia’ we hear from the Enemy Within…
…we are now travelling down a path that takes us away from our friends and neighbours. We have told them we don’t like them… https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/07/michael-morpurgo-my-family-fought-for-peace-not-for-brexit
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I loved my youthful treks across Europe –Who Do Those Euro-Commissars Think They Are? – and still reminisce fondly of the people and places I encountered.
Pride in one’s own country never means any lack of recognition of other people’s pride in theirs.
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Nobody’s more committed to the cause of British independence than I am.
Yet while of course I loathe Mama Stasi Merkel and Liar Junker and Red Renzi and all their ilk, I constantly applaud patriots of all nationalities, all over Europe.
Malpurgo’s invocation of his dead uncles is a cheap stunt and in terms of logic, absurd.
Much more meaningful memories are aroused in millions of homes around the UK where parents and grandparents and great-grandparents are remembered…
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…for the sacrifices they made for the freedom of their country.
AND for the freedom of other countries to decide their own destinies.
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Freedoms repugnant to the Brussels Commissars.
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Malpurgo in 2015 endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party’s Caroline Lucas. wikipedia
Seb Thorne, 
Noreen Paterson, 
Jacko, and 3 others are discussing. 
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Ben Millett 18:36 on May 9, 2018 Permalink |
What an ignoramus Malpurgo is!
If his uncles were involved in World War Two, then they could not possibly have been fighting for OR against Brexit, because there was no European Union, nor even European Community, nor even an EEC. They were fighting to keep Britain an independent free nation.
And how can the imbecile say they were ‘fighting for peace.
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Peace, I heard you say in your speech to a cheering crowd in London during the Falklands War (and a great speech it was, Ross!) comes AFTER victory, and all the men and women in uniform involved on both sides of the war were fighting for victory.
What the politicians did after the victory is something else!
Interesting link to the details about the EU’s Nazi/Fascist godfathers. I was aware of it but it needs to be made more widely known.
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Theo Grace 19:07 on May 9, 2018 Permalink |
He’s pathetic.
No idea of British history or else he has twisted it so far to suit his special pleading for Brussels that it’s only a caricature and not an entertaining caricature at that.
None of my forebears went to war to ‘fight for peace.’ That is the stupidest claim I ever heard.
All the generations of British warriors fought FOR THEIR COUNTRY, to be free and sovereign.. .
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Petra Malley 20:25 on May 9, 2018 Permalink |
I assume you call him Malpurgo instead of Morpurgo to imply malignity?
If so, I would say you are too harsh.
He is fairly obviously one of them that Lenin used to call ‘useful idiots.’ Otherwise he could never have written such bosh.
You do a very able job of demolishing his article, though historical illiteracy on the Morpurgo scale is something of a soft target. I wonder if it’s one of these ‘straw men’ things we read about.
However, all said and done, nice work, my friend.
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Noreen Paterson 20:48 on May 10, 2018 Permalink |
It could be that Ross was thinking of Shakespeare’s Malvolio. Some would say M was the villain but in truth he was more like a bit of a ninny.
That’s how Morburgo comes across if you read his whole article. One of those ‘intellectuals’ who hasn’t a clue but thinks he knows it all.
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Seb Thorne 01:30 on May 13, 2018 Permalink |
If it wasn’t one of Ross’s occasional typos, ‘Malpurgo’ could be his nudge towards making us think of Walpurgisnacht, the time when all kinds of spectres arise to strike fear into us mortals.
Morpurgo’s misuse of the dead, who can’t answer back, to promote his spurious case for Brussels, is horrible, after all.
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Jacko 22:34 on May 9, 2018 Permalink |
He’s off his chump.
Second World War about Brexit?
Even I can see that makes no sense and I was never much good at history.
You do well to put him straight on a few points.
My Grandad never had any time for the EU and he spent a few years fighting Hitler and Musso.
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