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Thread #143838   Message #3322485
Posted By: Richard Bridge
13-Mar-12 - 08:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stuff the Jubilee - No Cuts
Subject: RE: BS: Stuff the Jubilee - No Cuts
By the way, M the GM. Some stuff from the net:

"Perhaps the most interesting example is the Queen Mother, regarded by many as a stalwart in the fight against German Fascism. In fact she was an advocate of appeasment and a Hitler sympathiser and it has been suggested that she was so bigotted and prejudiced that she had to be prevented from giving interviews until she (finally) popped her clogs."

"The Queen Mother was a racist snob who excelled in extravagant living. Amid all the grovelling, hypocritical tributes paid to her this week, here are some facts to remember. The Queen Mother referred to black people as "nig-nogs" or "blackamoors". She backed white minority rule in Rhodesia. She criticised Lord Mountbatten, viceroy of India, "for giving away the empire" and his wife because "her mother was half-Jewish".

She opposed immigration, and thought black Africans incapable of running their own countries. The media call her the "nation's favourite granny", but she enjoyed luxury beyond most people's wildest dreams. The Queen Mother squandered millions on vintage champagne, racehorses and parties. She had five homes, including a Scottish castle with 25,000 acres worth £20 million."

""It is easily forgotten now, but Elizabeth was one of the staunchest supporters of appeasing Adolph Hitler. She bent over backwards to use her influence to stop Britain going to war against the Nazis, and she saw Churchill as a dangerous ally of her brother-in-law Edward. When Chamberlain returned, famously, with Hitler's meaningless promise that he would not provoke a war, Elizabeth made the constitutionally
unprecedented decision to appear alongside Chamberlain on the Buckingham Palace balcony, thus putting her personal stamp of approval on the obscene policy of appeasing fascism.""

http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/WSC/Monckton.html

I can go on, but I don't really need to.