A Land Fit For Heroes

Now that the economy is a basket case, and the Cuddly Conservative mask has dissolved into the adipose ooze from whence it first emerged, what more natural than that Daveybloke should turn to nostalgia porn as a means of arousing the kingdom? The First World War helped precipitate the Russian Revolution, thus paving the way for the Cold War, Trident and other nice things; and of course it also led indirectly to the rise of Hitler, without whom genuine British nostalgia porn would barely exist today. Most importantly as far as Daveybloke is concerned, the war could not have achieved these remarkable successes without the contribution of large numbers of hard-working families, who endured conditions of unimaginable misery on the orders of a few well-fed posh boys. Indeed, by the time Britain triumphed over the forces of European integration (with the help of its Atlantic ally and a few coolies), conditions were much as Daveybloke means to make them: a lot of hard-faced men had done very well, and there was no national health service to taint the glorious memory.

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