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Reynard
06 Sep 19 06:56
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The biggest irony of the last week in Westminster is the fact that Nicholas Soames is a direct descendant of Sir Winston Churchill , probably the greatest leader this country has ever had and a brilliant war-time strategist .
In May 1945 Winston Churchill sent a delegation to Reims , France to meet with the german delegation . At the time the allied forces were gaining the upper hand in a war that had lasted 6 years . With their armed forces facing certain defeat the germans signed a treaty detailing their surrender , followed a couple of months later by Japan . The allies were victorious and the celebrations were to live long in the memory .
At no time did Sir Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower consider disbanding their troops and retreating prior to this meeting , for obvious reasons . If they had removed the very threat that was forcing the enemy to surrender then there would have been absolutely no incentive for the germans to wave the white flag and surrender . However , two generations later , Sir Nicholas Soames is convinced that by removing the one threat that the british have (No deal Brexit) we will somehow be in a stronger position when negotiating the surrender of the EU to our withdrawal from the european federation . We are now about to take No Deal off the negotiating table thus allowing the EU to hold all the cards and enabling them to draw up the terms of our departure without allowing Boris Johnson and his generals to use the threat of walking away without a deal should it be deemed that the agreement doesn't suit the needs or requirements of the country .
Clearly Mr Soames has inherited none of his grandfathers negotiating skills nor learnt anything from his own family's well documented history Crazy
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Report PorcupineorPineapple September 6, 2019 7:08 AM BST
Just when you thought you'd seen a thousand inane WWII analogies and they couldn't be any more idiotic...
Report Crisp77 September 6, 2019 7:16 AM BST
If I was going to compare it to war I would compare it to the hundred year war
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 7:19 AM BST
At least Hitler had some decency
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 7:26 AM BST
Don’t let the fat **** in the House of Lords
Report PorcupineorPineapple September 6, 2019 7:32 AM BST
Aah, the first pro-Hitler post of the morning.

Gonna be a good day.
Report Crisp77 September 6, 2019 8:06 AM BST
Or maybe that star wars war when they spent the whole film debating.
Report flushgordon1 September 6, 2019 8:29 AM BST
Fatty is director of an arms firm  which does a lot of business in Europe he just wants to make his job easier.
The people are not his concern,
Report trilby22 September 6, 2019 8:32 AM BST
His grand-father would be shamed and would surely disown him.  Good riddance to the old fool.
Report trilby22 September 6, 2019 8:33 AM BST
ashamed
Report geordie1956 September 6, 2019 8:54 AM BST
The sadness of the Brexiteers is their vitriol against members of Parliament and others who have the temerity to disagree with their demands
Like spoilt children who can't get what they want so will destroy a toy so nobody else can play with it
Report northanlite September 6, 2019 9:15 AM BST
“There is a remedy which ... would in a few years make all Europe ... free and ... happy.
It is to re-create the European family, or as much of it as we can, and to provide it
with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom.
We must build a kind of United States of Europe.”


Winston Churchill speaking in Zurich 19 September 1946
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- September 6, 2019 9:31 AM BST
hell hath no fury like a far right winger scourned
Report okeydokey September 6, 2019 9:50 AM BST
The sadness of the Remoaners is their vitriol against members of Parliament and others who have the temerity to disagree with their demands
Like spoilt children who can't get what they want so will destroy a toy so nobody else can play with i
Report Ramruma September 6, 2019 10:16 AM BST
The sadness of Brexiteers is they have not stopped to wonder why Boris is desperate to call an election BEFORE Brexit on 31st October. Perhaps Boris does not expect the cold reality of Brexit to have voters cheering in the streets.
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 12:52 PM BST
Don’t trust remainers to respect the result of any new referendum .If the last 3 years have taught us anything it is that they are completely unscrupulous and would even be prepared to ‘miscount’ the votes to get their own way
That is why they must never get another referendum

Don’t trust remainers ever again , they don’t deserve to be trusted
Report Ramruma September 6, 2019 1:16 PM BST
If Remainers were fiddling the votes count, we would not be in this mess and David Cameron would still be prime minister.
Report northanlite September 6, 2019 1:20 PM BST
“To come out (of Europe) now, with nowhere else to go, would jeopardise our own and our children’s future, In politics we always have to consider ‘what is the alternative?’ The European Community or what? If we came out now we should be renouncing a treaty and cold-shouldering our friends…The reasons for staying in have actually nothing to do with the re-negotiated terms. They are concerned with more fundamental feelings; with the ideal and vision of what we could do together… and with the consequences that would arise for Britain if instead of solving our problems as part of a partnership we withdrew into the unknown.”

Margaret Thatcher
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:26 PM BST
The remainers didn’t expect to lose the referendum , it came as a complete shock to them , they’re that stupid

But we see the true nature of the losers now and remainers cannot and must not be trusted again , norhing bad or dishonest is beyond them that much is clear

Ah , what’s it got to do with thatcher , she didn’t vote
Report northanlite September 6, 2019 1:31 PM BST
Both Churchill & Thatcher were concerned with the fundamentals of security, unity & prosperity.
Brexit imperils all of those things
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:32 PM BST
It’s very simple , if there is another referendum , and remain wins

No one can be sure that that is the correct result , it will always be suspect we now know what remainers are like
And it is certain that they would do anything , even rigg or ‘ muscount ‘ the vote

That much is very clear now , they are like that
Report northanlite September 6, 2019 1:34 PM BST
so all you left to argue with now is supposition.
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:34 PM BST
Noethanlite I do t give two hoots about your interpretation of Churchill or thatcher

You’re not qualified to comment , as a remainer your judgement is flawed
And always will be
Report northanlite September 6, 2019 1:35 PM BST
how does one become "qualified to comment?"
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:37 PM BST
I’m beginning to think remainers are not very clever , as well as untrustworthy

You can comment , we know not to trust anything you say
Report northanlite September 6, 2019 1:37 PM BST
this whole thread started with an assumption Churchill would have supported brexit.
i just pointed out that on all known evidence he most likely would not have.
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:38 PM BST
That’s wrong
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:39 PM BST
Even the wooden of wooden heads knows Churchill obeyed the will of the British people when they voted

They kicked him out of Downing Street straight after the war
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:41 PM BST
So you can weasel around it any way you like , but dont expect anyone to be impressed
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:45 PM BST
I’m sure he thought the British people had made a mistake , I’m sure many British people thought that also , I’m sure people in Europe and throughout the world thought that

But they hadn’t made a mistake , not really, the great British people had voted and that was good
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 1:47 PM BST
Too difficult for remainers to understand  ? Well they are  like that and no word is too strong for people like that
This us chit chat , so I won’t say it
Report fife September 6, 2019 2:50 PM BST
lfc1971 you are on rocky ground with some of your comments including on this thread.
Report conditor September 6, 2019 2:56 PM BST
Churchill had a personal vendetta with Hitler, he destroyed lives with it ,to big egos wanting control..
Report jumper3 September 6, 2019 3:13 PM BST
Because Winston Churchill has iconic status amongst the general population, I guess by repeatedly bringing up Soames as his grandson this week, will somehow allow some/many to supposedly sit back and think 'Oh, how terrible. How could they do this to Winnie's family? This is terrible. They are not Conservatives'. Surely people aren't that stupid, are they?

I suppose it is some young media types trying to think they are being really clever.
Report lfc1971 September 6, 2019 4:05 PM BST
When remainers like fife start to preach something within me starts to laugh ...
and jeer

Maybe I shouldn’t do that either
Report mafeking September 6, 2019 5:04 PM BST
really soames should feel insulted every time his grandfather is brought up in connection with him. it's as though he's not in parliament on merit
Report Reynard September 6, 2019 6:20 PM BST
northanlite • September 6, 2019 1:37 PM BST
this whole thread started with an assumption Churchill would have supported brexit.
i just pointed out that on all known evidence he most likely would not have.


Incorrect : The whole thread started with an assumption that Churchill would not have surrendered his only bargaining tool !
Report portmanpark September 6, 2019 9:06 PM BST
stopped reading when you called Churchill our greatest  leader
Report posy September 6, 2019 10:26 PM BST
Good post Reynard
Report kemo sabe September 6, 2019 11:27 PM BST
i liked the simileis reynard ,,, but maybe greatest wartime leader ,,, he did get it wrong sometimes ,, gallipoli  norway ,,, mind you in his books it wasnt his fault ,,, bit like billy bunter  i didnt steal the cakes honest  i didnt
Report Reynard September 7, 2019 5:12 AM BST
portmanpark • September 6, 2019 9:06 PM BST
stopped reading when you called Churchill our greatest  leader


Fair point , although it was simply a personal opinion . Maybe @kemosabe is a little more accurate in his judgement Blush
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 8:53 AM BST
It was a combination of the great cataclysmic events and the decisions that Churchill took that made him truly great
That is what makes a great person never mind a leader. It’s easy for little people to talk big , after the event

In a smaller way , in these times , that is what can make Boris a great leader and a great person
How glorious if he succeeds , how heroic
heroes often fail
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 8:57 AM BST
Remainers are little people , have no doubt about that
Report conditor September 7, 2019 9:41 AM BST
i backed Dancing Brave, Sharistani beat him , I live with it ...little people move on
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 9:42 AM BST
There’s another little man piping up :(
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 9:43 AM BST
You see remainers didn’t accept the result and didn’t move on , did they little man ?
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 9:45 AM BST
unless you voted leave :)
Report conditor September 7, 2019 9:52 AM BST
I didn’t vote,not my thing ,but I know the difference between first and SECOND......
Report conditor September 7, 2019 9:53 AM BST
I learned that in school
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 9:55 AM BST
fair enough conditor , I respect that
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 9:57 AM BST
I’m sure many many people will not be voting again
Report conditor September 7, 2019 10:03 AM BST
The thing is Ofcom a few  friends and family think I’m a moron....... show me the planet Zonk I’m packing my bagsCrazy
Report conditor September 7, 2019 10:04 AM BST
Ofcom ? LfcAngry
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 10:09 AM BST
lol , I think maybe you saw things more clearly conditor , and were ahead of your time
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 10:10 AM BST
I’m not naive but it’s been a tremendous shock to see the true nature of people in this country
Report conditor September 7, 2019 10:12 AM BST
The thing is chap ,it’s just a distraction...people don’t get it?
Report Angoose September 7, 2019 1:13 PM BST
Sacked Conservative Nicholas Soames has written a scathing piece in The Times, saying Mr Johnson is "nothing like" his grandfather Winston Churchill.

The prime minister is said to model himself on the World War Two hero, but his grandson said: "Winston Churchill was like Winston Churchill because of his experiences in life. Boris Johnson's experience in life is telling a lot of porkies about the EU in Brussels and then becoming prime minister."

Sir Nicholas, who admitted he cried after finding out he was no longer a Conservative MP after 37 years, said Mr Johnson was not behaving like a statesman.

He said: "I think Churchill would have thought it extraordinary that we would have thought ourselves so successful, so powerful, so well thought of in the world that we could afford to give up this extraordinary relationship we have in this great EU."

Sir Nicholas became one of many MPs to confirm this week they would be stepping down at the next election after the chaos in Westminster.

He also hit out at Jacob Rees-Mogg after he was spotted lounging on the front bench in the Commons this week saying: "He is an absolute fraud, he is a living example of what a moderately cut double-breasted suit and a decent tie can do with an ultra-posh voice and a bit of ginger stuck up his a***. You do not behave like that as leader of the house."

He continued: "I thought it was b***** bad manners and he of all people should know better. He has had all the advantages and frankly nanny made a serious bish.

"I wanted to kick him firmly in the a*** and say, 'What the hell do you think you are playing at? Sit up!'"

He also likened a recent Brexit speech by Mr Rees-Mogg to the "lowest form of student union hackery".
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 1:44 PM BST
Amazing that fat ***** has the gall to talk about manners
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 1:55 PM BST
Anyone who had done what Soames has should not be deflecting onto anyone else but walking home looking down at the road the shame of his behaviour showing on his fat face  with red cheeks with nothing but the memory of his odious behaviour on his stupid mind
What a **** he is
Report lfc1971 September 7, 2019 1:56 PM BST
Hopefully we never see the fat fool again
Report Injera September 7, 2019 4:52 PM BST
A classic example of playing the man not the ball.
Report Injera September 7, 2019 4:56 PM BST
When Cameron left, Soames backed someone to replace him...Wonder who that was..
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