Wednesday 18 January 2017

Time to move on

Boris Johnson's ill-conceived garbage earlier today (18 January 2017) was crass and embarrassing. To liken the French President to a Nazi PoW guard showed a total lack of respect. Can you imagine Lord Carrington,  Malcolm Rifkind,  Harold McMillan et al saying such a thing.
David Davis also reached for a WW2 reference today, whilst, less surprisingly the tabloid press used wartime imagary to illustrate May's speech. 
Now, I enjoy watching a good war movie, and laugh along with Dads Army, I'm proud of what our country did to fight fascism and respectful of the sacrifices made by those that served in wartime, but it's about time our country got over its obsession with WW2. Of course we must remember, but it's in the past, not the future, whilst we sit watching "Sink The Bismarck" (and I do) the Germans have got on with making a success of their shipbuilding and maritime industry. Whilst we hum along to the theme tune of "633 Squadron" Germany has got on with exporting twice as much to the US as we do, four times as much to China, even exporting more than we do to the Commonwealth countries of India, Australia and New Zealand.
Theresa May wants Britain to be a successful trading nation, well we all do, notwithstanding our profound disagreement over our membership of the largest trading block in the world, but we'll never do this whilst we continue to be held back by the weight of our history. The horror of WW2 ended 72 years ago, it's time we moved on

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