Keep Up The Good Work Jezza...

[bazwillrun]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3298895/Jeremy-Corbyn-comes-fire-denouncing-shedloads-money-spent-World-War-One-commemorations.html

another day, another nail in the coffin...

anybody else notice its Tom & Jerry running the Lieing Bore circus now

[EDDIE51]

I fully agree commemorating WW1 is pointless.Over 100 years since it started.There has to come a time when we consign past wars to history.
Learn from them,yes but celebrating them is pointless.

[TheChair]

So we are constantly being told that there's no money for essential services, but according to you and the DM, it's fine to waste it on celebrating (as EDDIE51 points out), something that started over 100 years ago.

[ichkeria]

Don't let Corbyn in: he'll hand us over to the communists.
Or was that Osborne last week :-)

[retrocop]

Ein kleiner Preis für die nicht Mitglied des Vierten Reiches, denke ich. :-)

[ToraToraTora]

there's plenty of money if it was used wisely, instead we spend billions on WSS and half the NHS budget goes on 17 layers of management. Of course we should remember those fallen. I would not expect JC and his anti British followers to know this but the annual remembrance commemorations is not only about WW1 it is to remember those fallen in any conflict, it is to remember the people that were sacrificed so these popinjays have freedom to hate the very infrastructure that gives them that freedom.

[EDDIE51]

What is WSS?

[Baldric]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COskHvWWIAAbCtl.png

[Noe-schitt]

Looks like the Government are listening.
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-11-01/remembrance-day-parades-cancelled-due-to-police-budget-cuts-labour-claims/

[THECORBYLOON]

I think WSS is workshy scroungers...

[Gromit]

Commemorated the start of the Great War was a fairly insensitive thing to do considering the 750,000 Brits who were to die in it.
If we were to chuck a load of money at it, I would have thought a more suitable anniversary would be the END of the Great War.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Commemorated the start of the Great War was a fairly insensitive thing to do considering the 750,000 Brits who were to die in it. ///

Commemorating it, is not celebrating it.

/// If we were to chuck a load of money at it, I would have thought a more suitable anniversary would be the END of the Great War. ///

We cannot do that until the year 2018.

[anotheoldgit]

If there should be any criticism of the remembrance ceremony, it is the fact that politicians are allowed to attend, isn't it them and their predecessors who sent our men off to die, over their squabbles?

[derekpara]

I totally agree with both your posts, AOG.

It is a commemoration of WW1 and other conflicts, not a celebration. I have stood in 2 minute's silence at 11/11/11 for many years and marched at many a parade, including the Cenotaph and I have done it in remembrance of all those who died, especially old comrades of mine. Each and every life lost is a catastrophe for the bereaved.

My belief is that no-one is dead until they are forgotten - and I shall not forget, and that is why I will march with my regimental association next Sunday and stand in silence on 11/11/11/15 for as long as I am able.

[KARL]

WW1 had numerous participating countries within Europe and elsewhere. It was a brutal, and many say totally senseless, war (as they usually are). The waste of life, goods, property, etc. was truly disgusting (as it always is). That was 100 years ago.

In the UK there has now passed a year throughout which a long series of media items, public commemorations, etc. have picked up the "100 years ago...." theme of recounting all manner of events involving various people - all of them WW1 related. It seems we are in for a further three years of much the same. I know of nowhere else in the "Western World" where so single-mindedly and relentlessly details of a century-ago-war have been constantly kept in the public eye.

At one point the Prime Minister stated that the victory at Agincourt 600 years ago should be the subject of public celebration - and he wasn't joking.

The UK seems obsessed with past battles and wars. I find this a truly depressing tendency/characteristic. And don't let anyone bring out the "We must learn the lessons..." argument to justify this unimaginative grind.

[Gromit]

I agree with Karl.

[Baldric]

///He might wear a White Poppy to the Cenotaph///

I will as usual be wearing my Red Poppy with Pride,

Spare a thought, too, for the men and women of the White Poppy appeal. And don't make it a kind thought. This wretched outfit "believes that there are better ways of solving conflicts than killing strangers". That is how they describe the sacrifice of British and Allied lives in the inescapable war against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers.
People who wear white poppies – who include the sanctimonious prats of the "Christian" think tank Ekklesia – not only dishonour our war dead: they also assert their supposed moral superiority over the 40 million Britons who wear British Legion red poppies.
What should you do if you see a white poppy wearer today? At the very least – if I may borrow a phrase from my colleague Alan Cochrane – you should give them a cheery wave not involving the use of all your fingers.
(Borrowed from the 'Telegraph' Nov. 2008)

[Togo]

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ~Colman McCarthy.
Lest we forget.

[THECORBYLOON]

BALDWIN, this is what the RBL say about white poppies,
'What is the Legion's view on white poppies?

We have no objection to white poppies, or any group expressing their views. We see no conflict in wearing the red poppy alongside the white poppy. We do ask that the items are not offered alongside each other however as this would confuse the public.'

They do not appear to think the sellers are a 'wretched outfit' and have no objection to the white poppies being worn. You are entitled to your opinion on the white poppy in exactly the same way as others are in regard to the red poppy.

[bazwillrun]

"They do not appear to think the sellers are a 'wretched outfit' and have no objection to the white poppies being worn."

no because they ve got more dignity and sense than to drop to the level of the white poppy brigade and get involved in a slanging match with them

[THECORBYLOON]

Apologies I meant BALDRIC...