Lest we forget

It’s time to support our boys at the front

At this time of year its right to remember those who have fought for our freedoms and our democracy against overwhelming odds. We easily forget their heroic sacrifice, simply take it for granted or assume that someone else will pay the ultimate price to preserve our way of life. So it’s only right that we now pay our respects for those brave, voiceless few who dared to fight and in many cases lost their freedom for us.

Bow your heads then in memory of those doughty rebels who beheaded a tyrant king and made this country a fearsome republic for nearly two decades. A minute’s silence for Robespierre and the other (in some cases unhinged) architects of the French terror who swept a generation of corrupt and venereal aristocrats to the guillotine. Raise your glass to the militant young women of the suffrage movement who smashed shop windows and committed other acts of vandalism across the country so that our wives could be free and equal (hurrrumph). Cheer the angry mob who set Porsches ablaze in central London in the balmy summer of 1990 and ended the poll tax. And now let us stand and salute the brave few misfits and anarchists who smashed windows at the Tory HQ in protest against the tripling of university fees. Their acts of violence are the only answer to this disgrace. The Liberals who lied to get into power, the Tories who will do the same for all education given a chance and the Labour Party scum who buried of the principle of free education. All of them must be held to a long and painful account.