'OverGord' PM an insult to their memory.Byline: GEORGE TYNDALE THE veterans of D-Day made their last official visit to the beaches of Normandy yesterday. In 1944, they had been part of a military operation that was awesome. In just one day 160,000 men were carried across the Channel and were landed on the beaches in France by a fleet of 5,000 ships. Its spectacular success was possible not just by the courage of the fighting men but also by the planning genius that had shaped it. Compare that with now. In 2009 we couldn't even organise the invitations to the memorial. This was because our Prime Minister had decided that his government did not "do" 65th anniversaries. Then he changed his mind and with a typical Gordon Brown display of blundering and embarrassing inadequacy, neglected to arrange an invitation for the Queen, the only head of state of an Allied country who was alive at the time of the event. Only a last-minute intervention by Prince Charles Noun 1. Prince Charles - the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948) Charles prevented Gordon Brown being the most senior British representative present. You know very well that if this man had been in charge of Operation Overlord o·ver·lord n. 1. A lord having power or supremacy over other lords. 2. One in a position of supremacy or domination over others. o the invasion force would have got half way across the Channel, turned back and then invaded Ireland a week later. Given what he has done to this country over the past ten years - what you might call Operation OverGord - his presence in France yesterday was an insult to every one of the 30,000 British soldiers who died in the 12 months after June 6. The nation that was then capable of being the kingpin for D-Day is now all but bankrupt. Well over two million of its citizens are unemployed, and so much of what those brave men would have recognised as British has been simply overwhelmed by mass immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. . The government is in meltdown meltdown Occurrence in which a huge amount of thermal energy and radiation is released as a result of an uncontrolled chain reaction in a nuclear power reactor. The chain reaction that occurs in the reactor's core must be carefully regulated by control rods, which absorb , its MPs deep in the mire mire (mer) [Fr.] one of the figures on the arm of an ophthalmometer whose images are reflected on the cornea; measurement of their variations determines the amount of corneal astigmatism. mire n. of an expenses scandal. It has a leader who is so ineffective that he allows key decisions to be taken by ageing actresses. The sacrifice made that day led to the liberation of Europe. This country now pays pounds 40 million a day to be part of a European union of nations that is run by uncontrolled, unelected bureaucrats. What would they think now of the country they sacrificed their lives for, beset by greed, bedevilled by inadequacy, its independence frittered away, its identity all but erased? |
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