Remembrance Day, 2018…
Good people all over the British Commonwealth, and elsewhere, will have been wearing their poppies this week with pride…
..but some very bad people in the UK, like that slimy cur James McLean…
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…who has still not been fired from the English soccer club he is inexplicably playing for, will not have been doing so.
Of my offspring’s four grandparents, three served King and Country in the armed forces of their various countries.
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The fourth served too, in a nurse’s uniform.
The previous generation also did their bit in what they called the Great War, a conflict that left Europe debilitated through the massive losses among the bravest and best on the battle-fields.
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After the Second World War, too, the initial sense of relief gave way to a crisis of confidence…
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…cleverly, basely, exploited by fans of the losing side.
Let today be a day of remembrance, of course, but also of contemplation, on how best to honour those we remember.
Jeanne, 
Arnold, 
rossrightangle 
Andrew Kidd 10:22 on November 11, 2018 Permalink |
Nicely done, Ross, and you make the point gracefully, not like Macron and his fellow-travellers in our countries, who have been deliberately perverting the patriotic purpose of Remembrance by turning their speeches into vicious attacks on nationalism.
It was the determination of the giant multtinational empire of Austria-Hungary to suppress nationalism which sparked the First World War and Hitler’s (and the Soviets) determination to suppress Polish nationalism which sparked the Second World War.
Your frequent references to the EUSSR as the Brussels Empire are always a welcome reminder that multinational empires hostile to the sovereignty of small nations, Poland the obvious example, have not gone away.
Macron taints this day when we should be proud of all the men and women whose national pride took them off to defend their nations and who never came home.
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Andrew Kidd 10:28 on November 11, 2018 Permalink |
Sorry, my comment ten minutes ago was incomplete. I should have given the link – https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/world/europe/macron-nationalism-populism-wwi-armistice.html
to the speech which Macron made,exploiting Remembrance events to promote his anti-patriot globalist message.
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Vanessa Reilly 14:24 on November 11, 2018 Permalink |
Thanks, Andrew, and I am sure there are many more who think like you and me who are disgusted by Macron.
We expect disparaging of national pride and identity from the pipsqueak but trying to hi-jack Remembrance Day to further his liberal supranational agenda?
Repulsive little man!
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Vicki 16:13 on November 11, 2018 Permalink |
I am watching the ceremonials at Ypres and it is very moving.
How very sad that Macron wants to turn it into a Europhile propaganda circus.
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ross1948 17:28 on November 11, 2018 Permalink |
I have the BBC on here in Jakarta, Vicki, and it’s disgusting, the Beeblings boosting Macron’s politicising the day.
Some male Beeber just called Trump and Putin ‘beasts,’ and a yammering cow in Paris has tried to link the French African colonial troops’ contribution to the swarms of crimmigrants on the Med.
The BBC is without any scruples in how it pushes its ideological jihad.
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William Johnston 17:16 on November 11, 2018 Permalink |
The hour has struck, 11am, and we should all be remembering all who lost their lives in the service of King and Country.
Across the Channel their soldiers had fought for La France.
All over Europe there was no doubt that patriotic sacrifice deserved to be honoured.
Now we have to listen to Macron making speeches about ‘Europe’ with its own army to confront America!
Who’s he going to recruit for that?
Millennial snowflakes showing their gratitude for the free rail trsvel that Juncker has granted them?
God help us all.
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Arnold 20:48 on November 11, 2018 Permalink |
All over, for another 27 years then another centenary, and by then the WW2 vets will all be long gone.
And probably glad to be out of it. The ones who died in the first war and the second would be ashamed of the Canadian and the British leaders of today.
I don’t know much about the situation in France but from what I read Macron does not speak for most of the French. After what he has been saying today, his poll numbers might get even worse.
We have to ask ourselves though. Who voted these unpatriotic leaders into office?
Lest we forget?
Too many have forgotten what it was all for.
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Jeanne 16:29 on November 12, 2018 Permalink |
So many of you see Macron for what he is, an anti-patriot.
In France I see our real leader, Marine Le Pen, is warning against him, and because sometimes my English is a little bit faulty, I look for translation in an English media.
This is how she tells it.
“He is touring France to pay tribute to the hundreds of thousands of French soldiers who gave their lives to defend their nation, to defend their borders; and yet at the same time, he is aggressive, violent and hateful towards those who politically, pacifically and democratically want to defend their nation and their borders.”
I cannot say it better. What a great error of judgment last year, that the French voted for Macron. Even so, it is an error they will not make again, I pray.
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