Posted 5:58 AM by Paul
Our Finest Hour

Following the Madrid bombings Tony Blair has evoked the spirit of the Second World War. These troubled times are apparently our time of moral testing. We should not give in to terrosim in the same way as our parents and grandparents did not bend the knee to Nazism. This is a skilled piece of rhetoric as it plays on the electorate's vanity. It allows us to compare ourselves with spitfire pilots. We live is dangerous times, but I can't help thinking that the comparison is a little theatrical.

My parents were called up to withstand nightly bombing raids cowering in Anderson shelters their bodies weakened by rationing and then do a 12 hour shift the following day. Uncle Wilf fought waist deep in slime in the jungles of Burma. Uncle Walter lost his life when his ship was torpedoed in the Channel. Uncle Harry died in a tank in the Western Desert.

My task is a tad less arduous. I am called on keep an eye open for suspect packages and use my credit cards....frequent fancy restaurants and West End Theatres spending unfeasibly large amounts of money on multi coloured cocktails and Nouvelle Cuisine.

We will never surrender.