Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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In fact, I was about to write "don't be so childish" but that would be an insult to most children.
This film was about a particular and pivotal event in history. Extrapolating from it to make generalisations about attitudes to foreigners in general is either very silly or downright dishonest.
Most foreigners are not nasty. British and French troops at Dunkirk, however were up against the people who were trying to kill them. The Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, let alone the Waffen-SS, would be regarded by most reasonable people as fighting for a very nasty cause indeed - and as the overwhelming majority of modern Germans would share that view, expressing it is not xenophpbic against Germans.