Remembrance Day … a reflection

If yesterday was about the event which kicked off the Remembrance, illustrated in tweets below, which I’m sure Julia and Grandpa would endorse … most of a certain mindset are well aware of our continuity as a nation and our allies, of the sacrifices made for our society … we’re aware of it but it seems many thousands are not … more of that after the commemoration:

https://x.com/mongsley/status/1723254388787950056?s=20

https://x.com/bo66ie29/status/1723133519994527791?s=20

https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1723189955105522171?s=20

This Remembrance Day, 2023, is the first I remember which is overtly political to this extent. 

At least, the political aspect of past remembrances were usually about the “England” bit of Rupert Brooks’s poem, as the other home nations would have much to say on the matter … plus the sight of the politicians and royalty at the Cenotaph, all saying the right things after what they’d been up to the past year … well let’s leave it at that, shall we?

In a spirit of “coming together” remembrance.

And now the two minute silence and bugle call:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

Ladies and gentlemen, at 11 a.m., please be upstanding:

Not so in 2023 I’m afraid

In reaction … this:

https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1723388010526367933?s=20

But as we well know, it’s not just the invasion from across the channel and on flights and boats for a generation, it’s the alarming drop in the quality of both parenting and schooling which has seen the huge intake onto teaching staffs of the frankly communist Wokerati … also on school boards and in the appointment of heads of schools.

As a former head teacher, this one particularly hits home with me … and this post is hardly the one in which to develop the theme. Nor shall I get onto the dearth of talent and loyalty towards the people displayed by Westminster … when it comes down to an Indian, Suella Braverman, to remind the nation what it should be about.

Enough.