Honours System

[happy daze john in oz]

IO have no problem with those who have served their country well in field of conflict and even giving their life in defense of same.

But for some such as our ex premier to get the highest order for locking up the state of Victoria during the pandemic, not on medical grounds as now been established, but on his wishes only.
To me that is a total disgrace which demines the efforts of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us.

But there is a tale at the end of this.

He is so hated by the people that he cannot get membership of an y golf club and no restaurant in Melbourne will allow him in.

[Louis the fly]

The recent celebrations for VE day and end of WW2 were meant to give thanks and gratitude to the whole wartime generation for sacrifices made including the huge role played by the MN.
The events among others are hijacked by church and state making them meaningless.

[Ivan Cloherty]

[QUOTE=Louis the fly;441505]The recent celebrations for VE day and end of WW2 were meant to give thanks and gratitude to the whole wartime generation for sacrifices made including the huge role played by the MN.

Louis what ever makes you think the MN was even mentioned or even thought about. How many people know that the last casualty of the war in Europe was a merchant ship 'Avondale Park' sunk on the 7th May after the armistice was signed and that British merchant ships were still serving in the Pacific war theater .

[happy daze john in oz]

How many people today have even heard of the British Merchant Navy, what it did during the war and how many men, and women, lost their lives in an attempt to keep the nation fed and watered?

Ther talk of the three services and what they did, but the forgotten service gets very little mention.
Yet on figure suggests more merchant seamen p[aid the ultimate sacrifice than any of the other three.

[Des Jenkins]

Hi John
They have taken the Great out of Great Britain. Why else would that clown Strammer agree to another twelve years of European fishing in British waters, if it was in exchange for easier access for British tourists they should hang their head in shame.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Des it gets worse.
Read today that one of the Labor ministers over there had a go at the treasurer as she said she will not increase taxes on pensions!!!!!
Tax pensioners, Thye forget that many of them saved the lives of these parents during the war!!!!@!