Current Affairs VE Day

[PhilM]

I personally think it's an important day to commemorate the end of WWII, but I personally find this whole 'celebration' concept as muddying the waters.

The actual VE Day in 1945 was a celebration because the people involved had gone through the war and as such had some cause to celebrate their victory.

Many, however, didn't really celebrate because the realisation of the cost was all too apparent and you read about a wind of exhaustion that swept the country.

What are we to celebrate though? For me, it's a day of reflection where we remember what Gen MacArthur labelled 'a great tragedy' - a costly, destructive war.

We still fought on with the Japanese; roughly 3% of the world's population was dead; many, many more had been injured, forced to move or suffered hardships.

 

[dandydan]

Happy VE day. Death to fascists.

Indeed! Death to socialists everywhere.

 

[paulh116]

Bring it on....for me ...a way of connecting with the community amongst where we live and remembering the people who lost their lives in fight against Nazism

 

[Groucho]

For someone who is far right, Nigel Farage does like to celebrate the allied victory a lot.

 

[Grinch]

As a typical American, any excuse to wear patriotic colors, eat hamburgers/hot dogs, smash a few brews and have bald eagles chirping in the sky is always welcome!

 

[davek]

The parties encouraged for this by the media have been completely insane.

There's been another 600+ deaths here in the UK today and this 'kin carry on has been going on.

Talk about mixed messages. No wonder the public dont know whether to stick or twist.

 

[toffee9]

For someone who is far right, Nigel Farage does like to celebrate the allied victory a lot.

Nigel Farage is far right?

 

[tsubaki]

Nigel Farage is far right?

yes

 

[toffee9]

Went to the 75 anniversary for D-day last year in France. It was absolutely fantastic. The museums and the history, the places and the props that are still there gives you an appreciation for what we did that blows the mind. The enormous floating harbour at Arromanche built by British Royal Engineers, the beaches with the fortifications that the Allies stormed, some of the other sites, the cemetaries - commonwealth and American - fantastic, it really was a belter. I couldn't have more respect for what that generation went through and achieved. Makes any other achievement these days pale into insignificance.

 

[toffee9]

yes

Care to expand on that and what qualifies him for it? Or do you mean because he cares about the enforcement of UK law for our borders?

 

[tsubaki]

Care to expand on that and what qualifies him. Or do you mean because he cares about the enforcement of UK law for our borders?

Well, he hangs around with far right figures a lot - like those clowns at TPUK, or when he gave a speech at at least one AfD rally, or when Steve Bannon wanted to be in his fascist club with Modi, Duarte and Trump, or when he led UKIP into alliance with various far right parties across the EU. Perhaps the best example however is that he provokes a steady stream of new posters to come on here and defend / agree with him, something which in my experience only ever happens with the far right.

 

[toffee9]

Well, he hangs around with far right figures a lot - like those clowns at TPUK, or when he gave a speech at at least one AfD rally, or when Steve Bannon wanted to be in his fascist club with Modi, Duarte and Trump, or when he led UKIP into alliance with various far right parties across the EU. Perhaps the best example however is that he provokes a steady stream of new posters to come on here and defend / agree with him, something which in my experience only ever happens with the far right.

That's quite a wordy definition that you won't see in any dictionary. I wonder if Blair is far right for associating with Gaddafi, Putin and co. The less said about Corbyn and Hamas, the IRA and Venezuela's prince of darkness the better.

As for politicians having a clique of supporters. There ain't a successful one that doesn't. It's these Obama bummers that annoy me. They can't tolerate a word of criticism about his presidency without calling people racists.

I have no idea who Nigel Farage pals around with, but even if you say you do I doubt its a fair test. Nigel Farage is a self-made politician. He isn't a member of one of the main parties who all hang around together in a stupefying clique of amateurish hacks plotting metropolitan borough domination. He relies on generating publicity because he can't get it through his party and therefore has to meet people that get him on the front page. It doesn't make him far right.

 

[tsubaki]

That's quite a wordy definition that you won't see in any dictionary. I wonder if Blair is far right for associating with Gaddafi, Putin and co. The less said about Corbyn and Hamas, the IRA, Putin and Venezuela's prince of darkness the better.

As for politicians having a clique of supporters. There ain't a successful one that doesn't. It's these Obama bummers that annoy me. They can't tolerate a word of criticism about his presidency without calling people racists.

I have no idea who Nigel Farage pals around with, but even if you say you do I doubt its a fair test. Nigel Farage is a self-made politician. He isn't a member of one of the main parties who all hang around together in a stupefying clique of amateurish hacks plotting metropolitan borough domination. He relies on generating publicity because he can't get it through his party and therefore has to meet people that get him on the front page. It doesn't make him far right.

You could just have said "I am far right too" and left it at that, to be honest.

 

[toffee9]

You could just have said "I am far right too" and left it at that, to be honest.

I can't be far right by your definition... I ain't got any mates, but that's besides the point.

Nigel Farage is the most successful politician of modern times, for that he is to be admired. He's gone against big money, the big state and the liberal luvvies and beat the lot.

 

[tsubaki]

I can't be far right by your definition... I ain't got any mates, but that's besides the point.

Nigel Farage is the most successful politician of modern times, for that he is to be admired. He's gone against big money, the big state and the liberal luvvies and beat the lot.

so it wasn't you posting Breitbart stories on the other thread, then?