Il veterano della Seconda Guerra Mondiale dichiara che vincere la guerra “non ne valeva la pena” a causa dello stato del Regno Unito

Very old person of likely failing mental health used by media to spin a viewpoint.

Dude’s 100 for crying out loud – he was 15 at the start of the war, and 21 at the end of it, so I’d expect his knowledge of the real reasons for it be pretty shaky.

That’s unfortunately vague enough that lots will be projecting what he means on to that statement.

I will say being lucky enough to be old enough to meet some WW2 vets they had incredible personality that is rare today. It came with its own issues of ignoring the trauma they went through but any I met were very measured characters.

I understand the spirit of this statement – that we have lost freedoms and it’s shameful – but the stakes of WW2 were FAR greater than anything modern politics has produced since.

Flawed democracy, limited liberty, and piecemeal equality across the whole of Europe will always be worth fighting for in the face of Fascism. My life, like many others, depends on it.

Alec said: “My message is, I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives, for what? The country of today?

No, I’m sorry – but the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result of what it is now.”

The pace of change this country has endured in the past decades has been too rapid and non-organic that it was inevitable that the country’s well-being would be severely compromised.

No one asked for this. On the contrary, people, time and time again, stated they wanted sensible immigration policy enacted. Instead, they were spoonfed marketing slogans as the government enacted a bathtub policy towards immigration. The water has been endlessly flowing to the point of flooding, whilst the quality of the water has not been adequately tested.

If we are to heal as a country, we must move beyond seeing immigration as a simple numbers game. We need to develop a dynamic and adaptable (‘shower-head’) system that continues to monitor the threshold at which cultural differences impact community cohesion.

In cases where it’s been identified, there are emerging risks of sectarianism and discohesion, greater levels of control are necessary.

Amusingly, the person interviewing him (Adil Ray) and who was aghast that he would think such a thing yesterday tweeted this;

> Some say Mamdani may implement Sharia Law. He might. The heart of Sharia is social justice, welfare, fairness, charity and cohesion. Most Muslim countries operate a hybrid of Sharia & civil law, are slowly reforming and abandoning unethical practices despite the west’s portrayal.

Let’s have another war to reset things and then we can complain again about the “youths of today don’t know they are born” and we continue to rant “it was much better in my day”.

What do people want? A big list. He clearly thinks the country is in a terrible state and there are many many reasons for that. Some of us will agree with many of them.

Isn’t that enough?

> Grumpy old man whinges that the country is going downhill since his day

Since when was this news?