Posted on 01/25/2015 8:23:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Where is the Churchill in this superficial age?
Today and all next week, as we mark the 50th anniversary of his death, this paper will be celebrating the man widely acclaimed as the greatest British statesman of the 20th century – some would say of all time.
To an astonishing degree, it was Winston Churchill whose single-minded sense of purpose inspired the nation with hope in 1940, when Britain and her empire stood alone against Hitler and all seemed lost.
Indeed, it is hard to exaggerate how much the free world owes to the vision, energy and determination of this one man, who mobilised millions and galvanised Whitehall with his red stickers demanding: ‘Action This Day.’
Now fast forward to the present day, as Sir Winston’s successors at Westminster jockey for position ahead of the election.
Mercifully, the challenges they face are of a far lesser magnitude than those we confronted in May 1940. And of course any comparisons with the great man are bound to be invidious.
But with the tectonic plates of geopolitics fast shifting – and the public finances in a desperately precarious state – might we not expect just a glimmer of Churchillian clarity and vision from today’s politicians?
Instead, we see them engaged in a puerile and self-serving spat about which of them should be invited to appear in the TV election debates, each concerned only with petty party advantage.
Meanwhile, the Opposition leader hastily turns his back on fracking and stakes our future on wind farms – not to further the national interest (far from it), but merely because he fears the threat to the Labour vote from the Greens....
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the age doesn’t produce Churchills. it produces Justin Biebers
...and Trayvon Martins.
...and Trayvon Martins.
Sarah Palin ? ^_^ lmao
being arrested if he quotes himself
Churchill would be arrested for islamophobia if he were with us today. The great man could not defeat political correctness.
I believe his name is Nigel Farage.
Bibi
Those "guest workers" are simultaneously turning the U.K. into an Islamic state, as any fool who was awake and breathing could have predicted 30 years ago. I was and did. As far as I'm concerned the self-indulgent Brits deserve what they've created. We're doing exactly the same thing in the U.S. We'll pay the piper too.
The difference is is that the British public have no means to protect themselves from the Muslim horde. That’s not true here.
The Churchill who represents our age is not Winston but Ward.
His name is Newton Leroy Gingrich.
Seconded
That remains to be proven in my mind. But the American welfare state "guest workers" I'm thinking of are from Mexico and Central America. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch and importing non-citizens to do the jobs and pay the taxes to support welfare state goodies for the few results in the destruction of national sovereignty.
The Mexicans in my neighborhood (who outnumber me 8 to 1) go to work each morning or have a business. Are they on food stamps? I have no idea.
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