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Even in WW2, the UK could have cut a deal to protect itself.
Hitler almost NEVER kept to his international agreements. If you think Hitler honoured his treaties how you you explain Munich?
Well despite the comments above, i for one was happy for the first time since leaving the army to actually put my medals on and to push my great-uncle in his wheelchair to a service yesterday. I am not a religious man, but we have to remember the sacrifices that those men and ladies made, it was not their choice but they died in droves and they believed they were doing it for the right reasons, what they saw was horrific and it shaped this country for the generations after.
Again whilst i will always be a "Remainer", it seems to have become a dirty word to be patriotic, as De Gaulle said
"to be patriotic is to love your country, to be nationalistic is to hate other countries".
And whilst i do not agree with with many of the conflicts we have found ourselves in, in uniform i have been there to replace the firemen when they striked, in a UN uniform when we stood guard over mass graves in Kosova assisting with trying to place a names to those corpses found, we've worked supporting aid workers following hurricane relief and i could list many more examples.
There seems to be a thought by some that to want to serve your country is to be want to be a war-monger.
And to say that in WW2 we could of cut a deal to save ourselves, what a complete bunch of arse.....
Bruce Wee wrote:
"The vast vast majority of people who contributed to the war effort were not around to vote in the referendum. It’s about time the baby-boomers stopped taking credit for their parents actions."
But they voted in the 1975 referendum, the first one. They voted to stay in the EC.