Wow
Have been watching the opening ceremony for the Olympic games this evening.
Wow.
Bonkers, brilliant, and very British.
Wow.
Bonkers, brilliant, and very British.
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
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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"VERY BRITISH" eh?
What did we learn about Britain from this ceremony? Well, we learned that the industrial revolution, the Victorians, the Suffragettes, two world wars, and the abolition of slavery all co-existed in the same time period. The Seven Years War never happened, nor did the American War of Independence. The battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo were just pretend too.
We learned that the NHS are the same organisation as the CND, and that 90% of all children in England are black.
Then, we had the delight of hearing our own Queen, in our own country, be introduced in FRENCH before English. Then Royal Navy - yes, the same Royal Navy that has repeatedly put the French back in their place - and our national anthem are also introduced in French....
I have never seen a more left wing display of nonsense than this. Im so glad they spent £27 million, of public money to do it too.
You cannot fit everything into a ceremony like that one, and have to be careful about how you mention things like wars
- though they weren't so oversensitive to German feelings not to include the music of "The flight of the Dambusters" to give just one example -
but it did include a wide selection of key items from our history and the humour was very British.
French is the official language of the Olympic movement - a legacy of their refounding by a Frenchman, though he was a self-confessed anglophile who said that he had incorporated British ideas of sport in the modern Olympic philosophy.