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Thread #113211   Message #2489166
Posted By: Phil Edwards
09-Nov-08 - 02:13 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Pip - please read the poem again

Since you've treated my comments with such lack of care and attention, I'm minded to tell you to bog off. But OK, here goes:

Back when we became defenders
    (We have plainly been attackers),
Defenders' blood, sweat and years
    Were paid to keep a good home-way -


This is factually incorrect. As far as Britain is concerned, the war was fought against Fascism, for freedom and for democracy, but emphatically not for the preservation of traditional culture. English traditional culture was both massively eroded and massively changed by the war and its aftermath. It would have been much better preserved by peace with Nazi Germany. Obviously, I think the damage - and change, which isn't the same thing - to English traditional culture was a price worth paying for the defeat of Fascism. Do you?

A way yet to be part stealth-blown,
    As mass immigration gained-sway
And as we slipped as maintainers.


As far as I can see this is factually wrong as well - I'm not aware of any destructive change to English culture which was identifiably caused by immigration. But I'm willing to be enlightened: in what sense has the English 'way' been partially 'blown' as a result of 'mass immigration'? What, specifically, are you talking about?