We shall fight them outside the pubs
In a fantastic irony, neo-Nazi lager-louts are defending the very man who defeated Hitler
As the British government lurches about like a one-wheeled caravan pulled by a three-legged horse, citizens are muttering that what the country needs is a leader like Winston Churchill."Action this day" was Churchill’s mantra where Boris Johnson’s might be, er, piffle-waffle-something-something, followed by an exhortation in dog-Latin and then perhaps a jokey comment like "Operation Last Gasp", which was definitely the wrong thing to say at the wrong time.Johnson would very much like to be Churchill — a war-time leader uniting the British people in a swell of patriotism, immovable and unshakeable. Except that not only would Churchill have fired "Classic Dom" Cummings, he wouldn’t have needed him in the first place.So, no surprise then that Johnson’s bombast this day is that he will "resist with every breath in my body" any threat by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists to remove Churchill’s statue from its plinth in Westminster. The statue has been boarded up after it was defaced with...
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